Hi Raghu,

The Andhra University every year conducts AUCET for entrance into postgraduate courses offered under the streams of Science, Commerce, Humanities, Management, Teaching and Mass Communication. AUCET applications have been released from 22nd March 2019 and are open till 21st April 2019. AUCET exams will be held on 13th May 2019 and followed but the result on 21st May 2019, although there is not in particular the syllabus provided by the university but still the general syllabus for physical sciences are Electrostatics :Gauss law and its applications-Uniformly charged sphere, charged cylindrical conductor and an infinite conducting sheet of charge. Deduction of Coulmbs law from Gauss law Mechanical force on a charged conductor Electric potential  Potential due to a charged spherical conductor, electric field strength from the electric dipole and an infinite line of charge. Potential of a uniformly charged circular disc

Dielectrics :An atomic view of dielectrics, potential energy of a dipole in an electric field. Polarization and charge density, Gausss law for dielectric medium- Relation between D,E, and P. Dielectric constant, susceptibility and relation between them. Boundary conditions at the dielectric surface. Electric fields in cavities of a dielectric-needle shaped cavity and disc shaped cavity.

Capacitance :Capacitance of concentric spheres and cylindrical condenser, capacitance of parallel plate condenser with and without dielectric. Electric energy stored in a charged condenser  force between plates of condenser, construction and working of attracted disc electrometer, measurement of dielectric constant and potential difference.

Magnetostatics :Magnetic shell  potential due to magnetic shell  field due to magnetic shell -equivalent of electric circuit and magnetic shell  Magnetic induction (B) and field (H) -permeability and susceptibility  Hysteresis loop.

Moving charge in electric and magnetic field :Hall effect, cyclotron, synchrocyclotron and synchrotron  force on a current carrying conductor placed in a magnetic field, force and torque on a current loop, Biot -Savarts law and calculation of B due to long straight wire, a circular current loop and solenoid

Electromagnetic induction :Faradays law -Lenzs law  expression for induced emf  time varying magnetic fields -Betatron -Ballistic galvanometer  theory  damping correction  self and mutual inductance, coefficient of coupling, calculation of self inductance of a long solenoid -toroid  energy stored in magnetic field  transformer  Construction, working, energy losses and efficiency.

Varying and alternating currents :Growth and decay of currents in LR, CR and LCR circuits  Critical damping. Alternating current relation between current and voltage in pure R,C and L-vector diagrams -Power in ac circuits. LCR series and parallel resonant circuit  Q-factor. AC & DC motors-single phase, three phase (basics only).

Maxwells equations and electromagnetic waves :A review of basic laws of electricity and magnetism  displacement current  Maxwells equations in differential form  Maxwells wave equation, plane electromagnetic waves -Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves, Poynting theorem, production of electromagnetic waves (Hertz experiment).

Basic Electronics :Formation of electron energy bands in solids, classification of solids in terms of forbidden energy gap. Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Fermi level, continuity equation  p-n junction diode, Zener diode characteristics and its application as voltage regulator. Half wave and full wave, rectifiers and filters, ripple factor (quantitative)  p n p and n p n transistors, current components in transistors, CB.CE and CC configurations  transistor hybrid parameters  determination of hybrid parameters from transistor characteristics -transistor as an amplifier  concept of negative feed back and positive feed back  Barkhausen criterion, RC coupled amplifier and phase shift oscillator (qualitative).

Digital Principles :Binary number system, converting Binary to Decimal and vice versa. Binary addition and subtraction (1s and 2s complement methods). Hexadecimal number system. Conversion from Binary to Hexadecimal  vice versa and Decimal to Hexadecimal vice versa.

Logic gates:OR,AND,NOT gates, truth tables, realization of these gates using discrete components. NAND, NOR as universal gates, Exclusive  OR gate,De Morgans Laws  statement and proof, Half and Full adders. Parallel adder circuits.

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

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