AMU Entrance Exam Syllabus for M.Voc. in Polymer and Coating Technology

Community College

M. Voc. (Polymer and Coating Technology)

(A) POLYMER

1. Polymer Science

Classification of Polymers – natural – synthetic, methods of polymerization (addition
and condensation, ring opening etc.), biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers,
Concept of Molecular Weight in Polymers, Polymer reaction (Cyclization, crosslinking,
curing etc.)

Physical Properties of Polymer – Molecular weight, density, degree of
polymerization, Deformation (Plastic and Elastic), Chemical Resistance and Solubility,
Physical State of Polymers (Crystalline, Amorphous and Semi-crystalline), Effect of
Heat (Glass Transition Temperature Tg).

Mechanical Properties of Polymers, Hardness, Elongation, Modulus, Toughness,
Stiffness, Density, Tensile Strength, Abrasion Resistance Resilience, Wear and Tear.

Polymeric Materials – Commodity Plastics, Engineering Plastics, Speciality Plastics,
Thermosets Plastic, and Polymer Blends.

Polymeric Material Testing & Characterization – Testing of Polymers, National and
International standards – ISO, ASTM & BIS. Water absorption, moisture analysis,
sieve analysis, environmental stress cracking resistance of Polymer.

Polymer Processing – Extrusion, Injection Moulding, Blow Moulding, Compression
and Transfer Moulding

Bioplastics – Types of bioplastics, such as starch based, cellulose based plastics and
polyester polyamides, Bio-Based Composites. Applications of biopolymer in cosmetic
implants, bone replacement, dental applications etc.

2. Coatings and Rubber Technology

Methods of coatings – Chemical vapour deposition, Physical vapour deposition,
Electro-deposition and Thermal Sprays Process.

Rubbers – Manufacturing of rubber, vulcanization, and application of synthetic
Elastomer viz. SBR, NBR, CR, Silicon Rubber, PU Elastomer, Compounding and
Processing techniques, mechanism of reinforcement and mastication of rubber.

Rubber Processing – Mastication process using Mixingh roll mills, Kneaders and
spreading machines.

Heat and Mass Transfer Operation – Fourier’s law of Conduction, Heat conduction
through Plane wall, hollow. Heat transfer coefficient, Heat transfer by Radiation : Basic
definition, laws of Radiation, Black body, Grey body, Heat Exchanger.

Mass Transfer Operations
Species transfer, Definition of Concentrations, Velocities and Fluxes in Multi Species.
Systems. Fick’s law of difficusion, difficusion of species through stagnant species,
Fick’s 2nd law of diffusion.

(B) CHEMISTRY

1. Inorganic Chemistry

Atomic Structure
Idea of de Broglie matter waves, Heisenberg uncertainty principle, atomic orbitals,
Schrodinger wave equation, Aufbau and Pauli exclusion principles, Hund’s smultiplicity
rule. Electronic configurations of the elements.

Periodic Properties
Atomic and ionic radii, ionization energy, electron affinity and electronegativity
definition, effective nuclear charge, methods of determination or evaluation, trends in
periodic table and applications in predicting and explaining the chemical behaviour,
Chemical Bonding, Chemical Bonding, Chemistry of Elements of First Transition
Series.

Chemistry of Noble Gases
Chemcial properties of the noble gases, chemistry of xenon, structure and bonding in
xenon Compounds.

Acids and Bases : Arrhenius, Bronsted-Lowry, the Lux-Flood, solvent system and
Lewis concepts of acids and bases. Hard and Soft Acids and Bases (HSAB)

2. Organic Chemistry

Structure Bonding
Hybridization and its effect on bond length and bond angles, bond energy, localized
and delocalized chemical bond, inductive, resonance, hyperconjugation, hydrogen
bonding.

Mechanism of Organic reactions
Types of reagents – electrophiles and nucleophiles, Types of organic reactions,
Reactive intermediates-Arenes, Aromaticity, Aldehyde-Ketones and Carboxylic acid
and Aliphatic Hydrocarbons.

Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds
Concept of isomerism. Optical isomers, enantiomers and diasteromers. Geometrical
isomerism – E & Z system of nomenclature, in alkenes oximes and cyclopropane
derivative compounds. Spectroscopy.

3. Physical Chemistry

Gaseous State Postulates of kinetic theory of gases, deviation from ideal behaviour,
van der Waals equation of state. Critical Phenomena.

Solid State – Definition of space lattice, unit cell, Laws of crystallography – (i) Law of
constancy of interfacial angles (ii) Laws of rationality of indices (iii) Law of symmetry.
Symmetry elements in crystals.

Colloidal State – Defintiion of colloids, classification of colloids. Sols : properties –
kinetic, optical and electrical; stability of colloids, protective colloids, Hardy – Schulze
rule, gold number. Emulsions : types of emulsions, preparation. Gels : Classification,
preparation and properties

Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis – Chemical kinetics and its scope, rate of a
reaction, factors influencing the rate of a reaction – concentration, temperature,
pressure, solvent, light, catalyst.

Thermodynamics – First law of thermodynamics, Thermochemistry, Second law of
thermodynamics, Concept of entropy.

Chemical Equilibrium constant and free energy – Thermodynamic derivation of law
of mass action. Le-Chatelier principle. Reaction isotherm and reaction isochore –
Clapeyron equation and Clausius – Clapeyron equation, applications and
Electrochemistry.

(C) APPLIED MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS

1. Mathematics

Indefinite Integrals

Indefinite integral and its properties, fundamental integrals involving algebraic,
trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions, integration by substitution and by
parts, integration of rational functions, integration involving partial fractions.

Partial Differentiation and Elementary Partial Differential Equations
Function of several variables, partial differential and related results, homogeneous
function, Euler’s theorem, elementary partial differential equation.

Numerical Analysis
General iteration method, Newton – Raphson method, application of Newton-Raphson
method, solution of system of linear equations by Gauss elimination method and
Gauss Siedel method.

2. Statistics

Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
Arithmetic Mean, Median, Mode, Geometric mean, harmonic mean, meahn of
combined series, quantiles, range, quartile deviation.

Correlation and Regression Analysis

Bivariate data, scatter diagram, simple, partial & multiple (3 variables only) correlation,
rank correlation, repeated (tied) ranks.

Probability Theory

Deterministic and non-deterministic models, sample space, events and trials,
definitions of probability – mathematical, statistical and axiomatic, laws of addition and
multiplication, independence of events, conditional probability, Boy’s theorem and its
application.