AP State Universities Assistant Professor Syllabus : Andhra Pradesh Higher Education

Organisation : Andhra Pradesh Higher Education AP State Universities
Recruitment Exam : Faculty Recruitment Assistant Professor
Document Type : Syllabus
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Andhra Pradesh Syllabus for Assistant Professor Chemistry

Chemistry :
SUBJECT CODE – 9
Inorganic Chemistry :
1. Chemical periodicity
2. Structure and bonding in homo- and heteronuclear molecules, including shapes of molecules (VSEPR Theory).
3. Concepts of acids and bases, Hard-Soft acid base concept, Non-aqueous solvents.
4. Main group elements and their compounds: Allotropy, synthesis, structure and bonding, industrial importance of the compounds.
5. Transition elements and coordination compounds: structure, bonding theories, spectral and magnetic properties, reaction mechanisms.

6. Inner transition elements: spectral and magnetic properties, redox chemistry, analytical applications.
7. Organometallic compounds: synthesis, bonding and structure, and reactivity. Organometallics in homogeneous catalysis.
8. Cages and metal clusters.
9. Analytical chemistry- separation, spectroscopic, electro- and thermoanalytical methods.
10. Bioinorganic chemistry: photosystems, porphyrins, metalloenzymes, oxygen transport, electron- transfer reactions; nitrogen fixation, metal complexes in medicine.
11. Characterization of inorganic compounds by IR, Raman, NMR, EPR, Mössbauer, UV-vis, NQR, MS, electron spectroscopy and microscopic techniques.
12. Nuclear chemistry: nuclear reactions, fission and fusion, radio-analytical techniques and activation analysis.

Physical Chemistry:
1. Basic principles of quantum mechanics: Postulates; operator algebra; exactly- solvable systems: particle-in-a-box, harmonic oscillator and the hydrogen atom, including shapes of atomic orbitals; orbital and spin angular momenta; tunneling.
2. Approximate methods of quantum mechanics: Variational principle; perturbation theory up to second order in energy; applications.
3. Atomic structure and spectroscopy; term symbols; many-electron systems and antisymmetry principle.
4. Chemical bonding in diatomics; elementary concepts of MO and VB theories; Huckel theory for conjugated π-electron systems.
5. Chemical applications of group theory; symmetry elements; point groups; character tables; selection rules.
6. Molecular spectroscopy: Rotational and vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules; electronic spectra; IR and Raman activities – selection rules; basic principles of magnetic resonance.
7. Chemical thermodynamics: Laws, state and path functions and their applications; thermodynamic description of various types of processes; Maxwell’s relations; spontaneity and equilibria; temperature and pressure dependence of thermodynamic quantities; Le Chatelier principle; elementary description of phase transitions; phase equilibria and phase rule; thermodynamics of ideal and non-ideal gases, and solutions.
8. Statistical thermodynamics: Boltzmann distribution; kinetic theory of gases; partition functions and their relation to thermodynamic quantities – calculations for model systems.
9. Electrochemistry: Nernst equation, redox systems, electrochemical cells; DebyeHuckel theory; electrolytic conductance – Kohlrausch’s law and its applications; ionic equilibria; conductometric and potentiometric titrations.
10. Chemical kinetics: Empirical rate laws and temperature dependence; complex reactions; steady state approximation; determination of reaction mechanisms; collision and transition state theories of rate constants; unimolecular reactions; enzyme kinetics; salt effects; homogeneous catalysis; photochemical reactions.
11. Colloids and surfaces: Stability and properties of colloids; isotherms and surface area; heterogeneous catalysis.
12. Solid state: Crystal structures; Bragg’s law and applications; band structure of solids.
13. Polymer chemistry: Molar masses; kinetics of polymerization.
14. Data analysis: Mean and standard deviation; absolute and relative errors; linear regression; covariance and correlation coefficient.

Organic Chemistry :
1. IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules including regio- and stereoisomers.
2. Principles of stereochemistry: Configurational and conformational isomerism in acyclic and cyclic compounds; stereogenicity, stereoselectivity, enantioselectivity, diastereoselectivity and asymmetric induction.
3. Aromaticity: Benzenoid and non-benzenoid compounds – generation and reactions.
4. Organic reactive intermediates: Generation, stability and reactivity of carbocations, carbanions, free radicals, carbenes, benzynes and nitrenes.
5. Organic reaction mechanisms involving addition, elimination and substitution reactions with electrophilic, nucleophilic or radical species. Determination of reaction pathways.
6. Common named reactions and rearrangements – applications in organic synthesis.
7. Organic transformations and reagents: Functional group interconversion including oxidations and reductions; common catalysts and reagents (organic, inorganic, organometallic and enzymatic). Chemo, regio and stereoselective transformations.
8. Concepts in organic synthesis: Retrosynthesis, disconnection, synthons, linear and convergent synthesis, umpolung of reactivity and protecting groups.
9. Asymmetric synthesis: Chiral auxiliaries, methods of asymmetric induction – substrate, reagent and catalyst controlled reactions; determination of enantiomeric and diastereomeric excess; enantio-discrimination. Resolution – optical and kinetic.
10. Pericyclic reactions – electrocyclisation, cycloaddition, sigmatropic rearrangements and other related concerted reactions. Principles and applications of photochemical reactions in organic chemistry.
11. Synthesis and reactivity of common heterocyclic compounds containing one or two heteroatoms (O, N, S).
12. Chemistry of natural products: Carbohydrates, proteins and peptides, fatty acids, nucleic acids, terpenes, steroids and alkaloids. Biogenesis of terpenoids and alkaloids.
13. Structure determination of organic compounds by IR, UV-Vis, 1H & 13C NMR and Mass spectroscopic techniques.

Syllabus for Assistant Professor Economics

ECONOMICS :
SUBJECT CODE – 14
1. Microeconomic Analysis
** Demand Analysis – Marshallian, Hicksian and Revealed preference approaches.
** Theory of Production and Costs.
** Pricing and output under different forms of market structure.
** Factor Pricing analysis.
** Elements of general equilibrium and new welfare economics.
2. Macroeconomic Analysis
** Determination of output and employment – Classical approach, Keynesian approach, Consumption hypotheses.
** Demand for Money – Fisher and Cambridge versions, Approaches of Keynesian, Friedman, Patinkin, Baumol and Tobin.
** Supply of Money, Determinants of Money Supply, High – Powered money, Money multiplier, Broad Money and Narrow Money.
** Inflation, Phillips Curve analysis.
** Business cycles – Models of Samuelson, Hicks and Kaldor, Monetary Theories of Business Cycles
** Macroeconomic Equilibrium – Relative roles of monetary and fiscal policies
3. Development and Planning
** Economic Growth, Economic Development and sustainable Development – Importance of institutions – Government and markets – Perpetuation of underdevelopment – Vicious circle of poverty, circular causation, structural view of underdevelopment – Measurement of development conventional, HDI and quality of life indices.
** Theories of Development – Classical, Marx and Schumpeter; Economic Growth – Harrod – Domar model, instability of equilibrium, Neoclassical growth – Solow’s model, steady state growth. Approaches to development : Balanced growth, critical minimum effort, big push, unlimited supply of labour, unbalanced growth, Low Level Equilibrium Trap.
** Indicators and measurement of poverty.
** Importance of agriculture and industry in economic development – choice of techniques and appropriate technology – Investment criteria – Elementary idea of cost – benefit analysis.
** Trade and Aid – International trade as ‘engine of growth’ – Globalization and LDC’s Objectives and role of monetary and fiscal policies in economic development Techniques of planning; Plan Models in India; planning in a market – oriented economy.
** NITI Ayog.
4. Public Finance
** Role of the Government in Economic activity – Allocation, distribution and stabilization functions; Private, Public and Merit goods.
** The Public Budgets – Kinds of Budgets, Zero – base budgeting, different concepts of budget deficits; Budgets of the Union Government in India Public Expenditure – Hypotheses; effects and evaluation.
** Public Revenue – Different approaches to the division of tax burden, incidence and effects of taxation; elasticity and buoyancy; taxable capacity Public Debt – Sources, effects, burden and its management.
** Fiscal Federalism – Theory and problems; Problems of Centre – State Financial relations in India.
** Fiscal Policy – Neutral and compensatory and functional finance; balanced budget multiplier.
5. International Economics
** Theories of International Trade : Empirical verification and Relevance International Trade under Imperfect competition Terms of Trade and Economic Growth – Secular Deterioration of Terms of Trade Hypothesis – a critical review.
** Equilibrium / disequilibrium in Balance of Payment – Traditional, Absorption, Balance of payments and Monetary approaches for adjustment in the Balance of Payments, Foreign Trade multiplier and WTO
** Impact of Tariffs, Partial and general equilibrium analysis; Political economy of Non- Tariff Barriers.
** Theory of regionalism at Global level – Collapse of Bretton – Wood System – Recent.
** Monetary reforms.
** Trade Policy and Reforms in India.
6. Indian Economy
** Basic Economic indicators – National income, performance of different sectors Trends in prices and money supply.
** Agriculture – Institutional and technological aspects, new agricultural policy Industry –New industrial policy and liberalization.
** Money and banking – Concepts of money supply, inflation, monetary policy and financial sector reforms and Role Banking in Indian Economy.
** Public finance – Trends in revenue and expenditures of the Central and State Governments, Public debt; analysis of the Union Budget.
** Foreign trade – Trends, Balance of payments and trade reforms.
** Population, Poverty, unemployment, migration and environment.
7. Statistical Methods
** Measures of Central tendency, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis.
** Elementary theory of probability – Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions.
** Simple correlation and regression analysis.
** Statistical inferences – Applications, sampling distributions (t, x2 and F tests) sampling of attributes, testing of Hypothesis.
** Index numbers and time series analysis.
** Sampling and census methods, types of sampling and errors.

Syllabus for Assistant Professor English

English :
SUBJECT CODE – 19
1. British Literature (from William Shakespeare to Charles Dickens)
2. Modern & Postmodern Literature
3. Indian Writing in English and English Translation
4. Postcolonial literatures
5. Literatures from America (American, African American, Latin American)
6. Literary Theory
7. Gender Studies
8. Disability Studies
9. ELT
10. Research Methodology