VITEEE 2024 Exam Dates (Announced) viteee.vit.ac.in Vellore Institutes of Technology All Details Here

Full Exam Name

VIT Engineering Entrance Exam

Short Exam Name

VITEEE

Conducting Body

Vellore Institute of Technology

Frequency of Conduct

Once a year

Exam Level

University Level Exam

Languages

English

Mode of Application

Online

Application Fee (General)

1350 Rs [Online]

Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications

Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, lubrication

Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power

Conservative forces: Conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies), non-conservative forces: Motion in a vertical circle, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions

Elastic behaviour, stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity, Poisson's ratio, elastic energy

Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity

Bernoulli's theorem and its applications

Heat, temperature, thermal expansion: Thermal expansion of solids, specific heat capacity: Cp, Cv-latent heat capacity

Qualitative ideas of blackbody radiation: Wein's displacement law, Stefan's law

Charges and their conservation; Coulomb’s law-forces between two point electric charges, forces between multiple electric charges-superposition principle

Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field intensity due to a dipole, behaviour of a dipole in a uniform electric field

Electric potential, potential difference-electric potential due to a point charge and dipole, equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges

Electric flux, Gauss’s theorem and its applications

Electrostatic induction, capacitor and capacitance, dielectric and electric polarisation, parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium, applications of capacitor, energy stored in a capacitor, capacitors in series and in parallel

Action of points, Van de Graaff generator

Electric current, flow of charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and mobility and their relation with electric current

Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics, electrical resistivity and conductivity, classification of materials in terms of conductivity, carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors, combination of resistors, series and parallel

Temperature dependence of resistance, internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and EMF of a cell, combinations of cells in series and in parallel

Kirchoff’s law, Wheatstone’s bridge and its application for temperature coefficient of resistance measurement, metre bridge, special case of Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer principle, comparing the EMF of two cells

Magnetic effect of electric current, concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment, Biot-Savart law, magnetic field due to an infinitely long current carrying straight wire and circular coil, tangent galvanometer, construction and working

Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines

Ampere’s circuital law and its application

Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic field and electric field, cyclotron, force on current carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field, forces between two parallel current carrying conductors, definition of ampere

Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field, moving coil galvanometer, conversion to ammeter and voltmeter, current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment, magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron

Electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s law, induced EMF and current, Lenz’s law

Self induction, mutual induction, self inductance of a long solenoid, mutual inductance of two long solenoids

Methods of inducing EMF-(i) by changing magnetic induction, (ii) by changing area enclosed by the coil and, (iii) by changing the orientation of the coil (quantitative treatment)

A.C. generator, commercial generator

Single phase, three phase

Eddy current-applications, transformer-long distance transmission

Alternating current-measurement of A.C., A.C. circuit with resistance, A.C. circuit with inductor, A.C. circuit with capacitor, LCR series circuit, resonance and Q-factor, power in A.C. circuits

Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula

Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibers, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula

Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact, combination of a lens and a mirror

Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism

Scattering of light-blue colour of sky and reddish appearances of the sun at sunrise and sunset

Wavefront and Huygens’s principle-reflection, total internal reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts

Interference, Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent source, interference of light, formation of colours in thin films, Newton’s rings

Diffraction-differences between interference and diffraction of light, diffraction grating

Polarisation of light waves, polarisation by reflection, Brewster’s law, double refraction, Nicol prism, uses of plane polarised light and polaroids, rotatory polarisation, polarimeter

Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, electromagnetic spectrum, photoelectric effect, light waves and photons, Einstein’s photoelectric equation, laws of photoelectric emission, particle nature of light, photo cells and their applications

Atomic structure, discovery of the electron, specific charge (Thomson’s method) and charge of the electron (Millikan’s oil drop method), alpha scattering, Rutherford’s atom model

Nuclear properties, nuclear radii, masses, binding energy, density, charge, isotopes, isobars and isotones, nuclear mass defect, binding energy, stability of nuclei, Bainbridge mass spectrometer

Nature of nuclear forces, neutron-discovery, properties, artificial transmutation, particle accelerator

Radioactivity, alpha, beta and gamma radiations and their properties, radioactive decay law, half life, mean life, artificial radioactivity, radio isotopes-effects and uses, Geiger-Muller counter

Radio carbon dating

Nuclear fission, chain reaction, atom bomb, nuclear reactor, nuclear fusion, hydrogen bomb, cosmic rays, elementary particles

Semiconductor basics, energy band in solids: Difference between metals, insulators and semiconductors, semiconductor doping, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors

Formation of P-N Junction, barrier potential and depletion layer, P-N Junction diode, forward and reverse bias characteristics, diode as a rectifier, Zener diode, Zener diode as a voltage regulator, LED

Junction transistors-characteristics, transistor as a switch, transistor as an amplifier, transistor as an oscillator

Logic gates, NOT, OR, AND, EXOR using discrete components, NAND and NOR gates as universal gates, De Morgan’s theorem, laws and theorems of Boolean algebra

Particulars

VITEEE Exam pattern

Examination Mode

Online - Computer Based Test

Duration of Exam

2 hours 30 minutes

Sections

• Mathematics - 40 Questions

• Physics - 35 Questions

• Chemistry - 35 Questions

• Aptitude - 10 Questions

• English - 5 Questions

Type of Questions

Objective - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Total Number of Questions

125 questions

Marking Scheme

For each correct response, one mark will be awarded

Negative Marking

There is no provision for negative marking in VITEEE 2024