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Electronic Science Syllabus

The document presents the syllabus for undergraduate electronic science courses at West Bengal State University. It outlines the course contents, units, topics, and recommended books for the major theoretical and practical courses in the first semester, including electronics foundation, laws of electronics, and passive components. A committee of university professors prepared the syllabus.
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Electronic Science Syllabus

The document presents the syllabus for undergraduate electronic science courses at West Bengal State University. It outlines the course contents, units, topics, and recommended books for the major theoretical and practical courses in the first semester, including electronics foundation, laws of electronics, and passive components. A committee of university professors prepared the syllabus.
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NEP Syllabus (Phase–I)

for
UG Electronic Science
West Bengal State University

Contents:
In Phase–I, the syllabus for the following course is presented in this document. Work is in progress for
the rest of the syllabus.

1. Major-1 (Theory)
2. Major-1 (Practical)
3. Major-2 (Theory)
4. Major-2 (Practical)
5. Minor-1 (Theory)
6. Minor-1 (Practical)
7. MDC-1
8. SEC-1
9. Evaluation Note

Syllabus Preparation Members:


1. Dr. Arijit Roy (Convener), Department of Electronics, West Bengal State University.
2. Dr. Madhabi Ganguly (Member), Department of Electronics, West Bengal State University.
3. Dr. Subhro Ghosal (Member), Department of Electronic Science, APC College.
4. Dr. Kalpana Das (Member), Department of Electronic Science, RBC College.
5. Dr. Anirban Bhattacharya (Member), Department of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta.
6. Dr. Syed Minhaz Hossain (Member), Department of Physics, IIEST Shibpur, Howrah.
7. Dr. Priyadarshi Majumder (Member), Department of Electronic Science, BRSN College.
8. Durjoy Roy (Invited Member), Department of Electronic Science, RBC College.
9. Dr. Prosenjit Roychowdhury (Invited Member), Department of Electronic Science, APC College.
10. Bidisha Biswas (Invited Member), Department of Electronic Science, BG College.
Semester–I
Major–1 (Theory): Electronics Foundation-I (Credit: 3, Full Marks: 50, 45 Lecture-
Hour)

Unit–I: Electronic Materials (33 Lectures)

A. Basic Quantum Physics


1) Basic postulation of quantum mechanics, Wave representation of particle, Phase velocity and
Group velocity, Probability density, Heisenberg Uncertainty principle.
2) Schrodinger wave Equation (time independent), Quantum mechanical operators (position,
momentum, energy, operator algebra not included), Particle in one dimensional box, Particle in
one dimensional barrier potential, Schrodinger equation applied to periodic potential filed –
concept of allowed and forbidden energy bands, Classification of materials – Insulators,
Conductors, Semiconductors, Dielectrics.

B. Classification of Electrical and Electronic Materials


1) Basic behaviour of Insulators; Conductors; Semiconductors; Dielectrics.
2) Conductive Materials: Free Electron Theory, Factors affecting conductivity of metals.
3) Semiconductor Materials: Types and Characteristics; Brief introduction to dependence of particle
distribution properties of material–MB, BE and FD distribution (no mathematical derivation
required only qualitative discussion using examples), Fermi Energy Level; Intrinsic, Extrinsic
and Compound Semiconductors; E-K diagram, Effective mass, Density of States; Temperature
dependence of carrier concentrations and mobility; Direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors;
Effect of heavy doping and degenerate semiconductors.

Unit–II: Laws of Electronics and Passive Components (12 Lectures)

A. Basic Laws in Electronics and their applications


1) Charge, Potential, Field, Voltage (DC and AC), Current (DC and AC), Electrical Load, Electrical
Power, Root mean square and Average value of AC voltage, Ideal and practical voltage/current
sources, Decibel unit is electronics.
2) Coloumb’s First and Second Laws in Electrostatics
3) Ohm’s Law
4) Kirchhoff Current Law, Kirchhoff Voltage Law
5) First Law of Joule, Second Law of Joule
6) Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction (First, Second and Third or Lenz’s Law)
7) Biot Savart Law for Electric and Magnetic field
8) Ampere’s Circuital Law
9) Gauss’s Law
10) Lorentz force (motion of charged particle in magnetic field)

B. Basic passive components in electronics and their applications


1) Resistors, their various types, series-parallel combination.
2) Capacitors, Capacitive reactance, their various types, parallel plate capacitor, cylindrical
capacitor, series-parallel combination, concept of variable capacitor.
3) Inductors, Inductive reactance, their various types, Solenoids (Solenoid, Toroid) series-parallel
combination, Self- inductance of a coil, Mutual inductance of two coils.
4) Transformers: Operating principles (with mathematical formulation), Construction, Applications.
5) AC and DC behaviour of basic components, concept of quality factor of a component, phasor
relationship between R, L and C.

Recommended Books:
A. For Unit–I
1. Applied Quantum Mechanics, A.F.J. Levi, Cambridge.
2. Quantum Mechanics: Theory and Applications, Ajoy Ghatak, S. Lokanathan, Kluwer
Academic Publishers.
3. Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Solid State Physics, D. Chattopadhyay, P.C.
Rakshit, S. Chand & Co Ltd.
4. Elements of Quantum Mechanics, K. Singh, S.P. Singh, S. Chand & Co Ltd.
5. Solid State Electronic Devices, Ben G. Streetman, S.K. Banerjee, Pearson.
6. Solid State Physics, S.O. Pillai.
7. Solid State Physics, A.J. Dekker, Macmillan Education.
B. For Unit–II
1. The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, Cambridge University Press.
2. Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, Alexander, M. Sadiku, McGraw Hill.
3. Basic Electrical Engineering, I.J. Nagrath, D.P. Kothari, Schaum’s Outline Series, Tata
McGraw Hill.
4. Electric Circuits, Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph A Edminister, K. Uma Rao, Tata McGraw Hill.
5. Basic Electrical Engineering, C.L. Wadhwa, New Age International Publishers.
Semester–I
Major–1 (Practical): Electronics Foundation-I (Credit:2, Full marks: 50, 60
Laboratory-Hour)

Prerequisite: Introduction to DC voltage source; Introduction to digital multimeter and its applications,
Introduction to practical Resistors (with color code, wattage), Capacitors, Inductors,
Diodes, Transformers and their specifications, Measurement of resistance of resistor using
multimeter, Concept of voltage divider, Measurement of forward and backward
resistances of diode using multimeter.

Expt. 1: Verification of Ohm’s Law; Verification of Kirchhoff Current Law.

Expt. 2: Verification of equivalent resistance in cases of series and parallel combination of


resistors.

Expt. 3: Introduction to AC source, Introduction to CRO/DSO; Measurement of frequency,


amplitude and phase of AC sources; Construct a CR circuit for predefined phase
difference and measure phase difference with input signals using Lissajous patterns.

Expt. 4: (a) Finding capacitance of a capacitor. (b) Finding the phase difference between the
current and voltage across the capacitor.

Hints for (a):


Method-1
Construct a series CR circuit (in which the resistor is a variable resistor) and use a AC
voltage source to excite the circuit. Measure the amplitude of voltages across the resistor
(VR) and capacitor (VC). Vary the variable resistor until VR = VC. Measure the value of
the resistor (R) when VR = VC. Under such condition, the unknown capacitance is given
1 1
by 𝐶 = 𝑅𝜔 = 𝑅×2𝜋𝑓, where f is the frequency of the AC voltage source. Plot: Plot VR and
VC as a function of R.
Typical values: 𝑉𝐴𝐶 = −1 𝑡𝑜 + 1, 𝑓 = 1𝑘𝐻𝑧, R ~ 1 kΩ pot, C ~ 1 µF.

Method-2
Construct a series CR circuit and use a AC voltage source to excite the circuit, Measure
the amplitude of the voltage across the resistor, calculate the amplitude of current
thorough the circuit knowing the value of resistor, calculate the impedance in the circuit
from the amplitude of the supply voltage and current in the circuit, Calculate the
impedance of the circuit with known frequency and resistance value, find the unknown
capacitance by equating calculated impedance with experimentally estimated impedance).
Plot measured impedance of the circuit as a function of frequency and explanation of the
nature of the plot. Repeat the experiment two more times.
Take another unknown capacitor and find is value.

Hints for (b):


View the waveforms across the resistor and capacitor and find their phase difference (the
waveform across the resistor will represent the current waveform).

Expt. 5: (a) Finding inductance of an inductor. (b) Find the phase difference between the current
and voltage across the inductor.

Hints for (a)


Method-1:
Same as earlier. Construct a series LR circuit (in which the resistor is a variable resistor)
and use a AC voltage source to excite the circuit. Measure the amplitude of voltages across
the resistor (VR) and capacitor (VL). Vary the variable resistor until VR = VL. Measure the
value of the resistor (R) when VR = VL. Under such condition, the unknown inductance is
𝑅 𝑅
given by 𝐿 = 𝜔 = 2𝜋𝑓, where f is the frequency of the AC voltage source. Plot: Plot VR
and VL as a function of R. Typical values: 𝑉𝐴𝐶 = −1 𝑡𝑜 + 1, 𝑓 = 5𝑘𝐻𝑧, R ~ 1 kΩ pot, L
~ 10 mH.

Method-2:
Similar to method as described earlier.

Hints for (b):


View the waveforms across the resistor and inductor and find their phase difference (the
waveform across the resistor will represent the current waveform).

Expt. 6: Measurement of dielectric constant of a liquid/solid sample (using cylindrical


electrodes/parallel plate electrodes).
Hints: Measure the capacitance of the given air-filled capacitor (capacitance can be
measured by measuring impedance), say C0. Now fill the gap between the cylinders/plates
by the liquid/solid of interest. Measure the capacitance again, say it is Cd. Then the
𝐶
dielectric constant of the liquid/solid is 𝑘 = 𝐶𝑑 .
0
Semester–II
Major-2 (Theory): Electronics Foundation-II (Credit: 3, Full Marks: 50, 45 Lecture-
Hour)

Unit–I: Mathematic for Electronics (20 Lectures)

3) Ordinary differential equations: Basic Concepts, Separable Ordinary Differential Equations,


Exact Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Ordinary Differential Equations, Second Order
homogenous and non-homogeneous differential equations.
4) Introduction to Matrices and Determinants, Types of matrices, Matrix arithmetic, Determinant of
a square matrix, Simultaneous Equations and the Characteristic Matrix, Eigenvalues of a square
matrix.
5) Introduction to Laplace transform method, Convergence of the integral, Initial and final value
theorems, Partial-Fractions Expansions.

Unit–II: Network Analysis (25 Lectures)

4) Network topology and definitions, Mesh analysis, Node analysis.


5) Principle of duality, Superposition Theorem, Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s Theorem, Maximum
power transfer theorem, Millman’s Theorem, Reciprocity Theorem, Compensation Theorem
(Substitution Theorem), AC circuit analysis using network theorems.
6) Star-Delta transformation Theorem, Delta-Star transformation Theorem
7) Transient responses of series CR, LR circuits with DC excitation (using differential equation and
Laplace transform).
8) Power in AC circuits (average power, instantaneous power), Power factor, Phasor diagram, Bode
plot, AC analysis of CR, LR, and LCR circuits, Resonance in series and parallel LCR circuits and
their frequency responses, Quality factor and bandwidth.
9) Passive filters: Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Bandstop.
10) Two-port Networks–Impedance (Z) parameters, Admittance (Y) Parameters, h-parameters,
Transmission (ABCD) parameters.

Recommended Books:
A. For Unit–I
1. Engineering Mathematics: A Foundation for Electronic, Electrical, Communications and
Systems Engineers, Anthony Croft, Robert Davison, Martin Hargreaves, Pearson.
2. Higher Engineering Mathematics, B.S. Grewal, Khanna Publishers.

B. For Unit–II
1. Electric Circuits, Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph A Edminister, K. Uma Rao, Schaum’s Outline
Series, Tata McGraw Hill.
2. Introduction to Circuit and Network, Gargi Basu, Platinum Publishers.
3. Basic Electronics, D. Chattopadhyay, P.C. Rakshit, New Age International (P) Ltd.
Semester–II
Major-2 (Practical): Electronics Foundation-II (Credit: 2, Full Marks: 50, 60
Laboratory Hours)

Expt. 1: Verification of Thevenin’s theorem.

Expt. 2: Verification of Norton’s theorem.

Expt. 3: (i) Verification of equivalence of Star-Delta conversion and vice-versa. (ii) Verification
of Superposition Theorem.

Expt. 4: Verification of maximum power transfer theorem.

Expt. 5: Study of RC circuit as lowpass and high-pass filter (plot gain in dB as a function of
frequency, use semi-log graph paper). Determine pass-band gain, 3 dB point, slope
beyond the cut-off from the graph.

Expt. 6: Study frequency responses (amplitude of current Vs frequency) of a series and a parallel
LCR circuits. Find the resonance frequency, Q factor and bandwidth for each these
circuits.

Expt. 7: Characterization of a Two-port network (for example, a step-down transformer may be


considered as a Two-port network).
Semester–I
Minor-1 (Theory): Basic Electronics-I (Credit: 3, Full Marks: 50, 45 Lecture-Hour)

Unit–I: Laws of Electronics and Passive Components (12 Lectures)


C. Basic Laws in Electronics and their applications
11) Charge, Potential, Field, Voltage (DC and AC), Current (DC and AC), Electrical Load, Electrical
Power, Root mean square and Average value of AC voltage, Ideal and practical voltage/current
sources, Decibel unit is electronics.
12) Coloumb’s First and Second Laws in Electrostatics
13) Ohm’s Law
14) Kirchhoff Current Law, Kirchhoff Voltage Law
15) First Law of Joule, Second Law of Joule
16) Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction (First, Second and Third or Lenz’s Law)
17) Biot Savart Law for Electric and Magnetic field
18) Ampere’s Circuital Law
19) Gauss’s Law
20) Lorentz force (motion of charged particle in magnetic field)

D. Basic passive components in electronics and their applications


6) Resistors, their various types, series-parallel combination.
7) Capacitors, Capacitive reactance, their various types, parallel plate capacitor, cylindrical
capacitor, series-parallel combination, concept of variable capacitor.
8) Inductors, Inductive reactance, their various types, Solenoids (Solenoid, Toroid) series-parallel
combination, Self- inductance of a coil, Mutual inductance of two coils.
9) Transformers: Operating principles, Construction, Applications.
10) AC and DC behaviour of basic components, concept of quality factor of a component, phasor
relationship between R, L and C.

Unit–II: Network Analysis (23 Lectures)


11) Network topology and definitions, Mesh analysis, Node analysis.
12) Superposition Theorem, Thevenin’s Theorem, Norton’s Theorem, Maximum power transfer
theorem, inter-conversion of between Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent circuits (for DC
circuits), AC circuit analysis using network theorems.
13) Star-Delta transformation Theorem, Delta-Star transformation Theorem.
14) Transient responses of series CR, LR circuits with DC excitation (using differential equation).
15) Power in AC circuits (average power, instantaneous power), Power factor, Phasor diagram, Bode
plot, AC analysis of CR, LR, and LCR circuits, Resonance in series and parallel LCR circuits and
their frequency responses, Quality factor and bandwidth.

Unit–III: PN Junction Diode and Rectifiers (10 Lectures)


1) Ideal and practical diodes, formation of depletion layer, Schockley diode equation, I–V
characteristics, reverse saturation current, DC load line, statice and dynamic resistance.
2) Zener diode and it I–V characteristics, reverse saturation current, Zener and avalanche
breakdown, Application of Zener diode as voltage regulation.
3) Hal-wave and full-wave centre-tap and bridge rectifiers, expressions for output voltage, PIV,
ripple factor and efficiency, Operation with and without shunt capacitor filter.
Recommended Books:
1. The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, Cambridge University Press.
2. Electric Circuits, Mahmood Nahvi, Joseph A Edminister, K. Uma Rao, Tata McGraw Hill.
3. Basic Electronics, D. Chattopadhyay, P.C. Rakshit, New Age International (P) Ltd.
4. Fundamentals of Electric Circuits, Alexander, M. Sadiku, McGraw Hill.
5. Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory, Robert L. Boylestad, Louis Nashelsky, Pearson.
6. Basic Electrical Engineering, I.J. Nagrath, D.P. Kothari, Tata McGraw Hill.
7. Basic Electrical Engineering, C.L. Wadhwa, New Age International Publishers.
8. Circuits and Networks: Analysis and Synthesis, A. Sudhakar, S.S. Palli, McGraw Hill.
Minor-1 (Practical): Basic Electronics-I (Credit 2, 60 Laboratory-Hour)
Prerequisite: Introduction to DC voltage source; Introduction to digital multimeter and its applications,
Introduction to practical Resistors (with color code, wattage), Capacitors, Inductors,
Diodes, Transformers and their specifications, Measurement of resistance of resistor using
multimeter, Measurement of forward and backward resistances of diode using multimeter.

Expt. 1: (i) Verification of equivalent resistance in cases of series and parallel combination of
resistors. (ii) Construct an unbalance Wheatstone bridge. Connect a milliammeter to
measure source current in the circuit. Connect a load resistance and milliammeter in series
connecting the other two junction of the bridge. Vary the load resistance and measure the
currents through the two milliammeters. Short the load and measure short-circuit current.
Disconnect the load and measure the open circuit voltage and resistance across those two
terminals with the power supply replaced by a short-circuit. Verify Thevenin’s equivalent
circuit, Norton’s equivalent circuit and verify Star-Delta equivalence.

Expt. 2: Introduction to AC source, Introduction to CRO/DSO; Measurement of frequency,


amplitude and phase of AC sources; Construct a CR circuit for predefined phase
difference and measure phase difference between input and output signals.

Expt. 3: (a) Finding capacitance of a capacitor. (b) Finding the phase difference between the
current and voltage across the capacitor.

Hints for (a):


Method-1
Construct a series CR circuit (in which the resistor is a variable resistor) and use a AC
voltage source to excite the circuit. Measure the amplitude of voltages across the resistor
(VR) and capacitor (VC). Vary the variable resistor until VR = VC. Measure the value of
the resistor (R) when VR = VC. Under such condition, the unknown capacitance is given
1 1
by 𝐶 = 𝑅𝜔 = 𝑅×2𝜋𝑓, where f is the frequency of the AC voltage source. Plot: Plot VR and
VC as a function of R.
Typical values: 𝑉𝐴𝐶 = −1 𝑡𝑜 + 1, 𝑓 = 1𝑘𝐻𝑧, R ~ 1 kΩ pot, C ~ 1 µF.

Method-2
Construct a series CR circuit and use a AC voltage source to excite the circuit, Measure
the amplitude of the voltage across the resistor, calculate the amplitude of current
thorough the circuit knowing the value of resistor, calculate the impedance in the circuit
from the amplitude of the supply voltage and current in the circuit, Calculate the
impedance of the circuit with known frequency and resistance value, find the unknown
capacitance by equating calculated impedance with experimentally estimated impedance).
Plot measured impedance of the circuit as a function of frequency and explanation of the
nature of the plot. Repeat the experiment two more times.
Take another unknown capacitor and find is value.

Hints for (b):


View the waveforms across the resistor and capacitor and find their phase difference (the
waveform across the resistor will represent the current waveform).

Expt. 4: (a) Finding inductance of an inductor. (b) Find the phase difference between the current
and voltage across the inductor.

Hints for (a)


Method-1:
Same as earlier. Construct a series LR circuit (in which the resistor is a variable resistor)
and use a AC voltage source to excite the circuit. Measure the amplitude of voltages across
the resistor (VR) and capacitor (VL). Vary the variable resistor until VR = VL. Measure the
value of the resistor (R) when VR = VL. Under such condition, the unknown inductance is
𝑅 𝑅
given by 𝐿 = 𝜔 = 2𝜋𝑓, where f is the frequency of the AC voltage source. Plot: Plot VR
and VL as a function of R. Typical values: 𝑉𝐴𝐶 = −1 𝑡𝑜 + 1, 𝑓 = 5𝑘𝐻𝑧, R ~ 1 kΩ pot, L
~ 10 mH.

Method-2:
Similar to method as described earlier.

Hints for (b):


View the waveforms across the resistor and inductor and find their phase difference (the
waveform across the resistor will represent the current waveform).

Expt. 5: Study frequency responses (amplitude of current Vs frequency) of a series LCR circuits.
Find the resonance frequency, Q factor and bandwidth for each these circuits.

Expt. 6: Study I–V characteristics of PN junction diode. Plot forward biased I–V graph. Find
reverse saturation current (Hints: Plot lnId versus Vd from forward biased data, interpolate
the line up to Y-axis intercept (negative side of Y-axis), say this intercept is 𝑦 = ln 𝐼𝑑𝑠𝑎𝑡 ,
Reverse saturation current 𝐼𝑑𝑠𝑎𝑡 = 𝑒 𝑦 ).
Semester–I/II/III
MDC–1/2/3 (Theory): Interdisciplinary Electronics
(Credit: 3, Full Marks: 50, 45 Lecture-Hour)

Unit–I: Basic Circuit Components (20 Hours)


Energy Source- Concept of A.C. and DC signal. RMS and average value of AC sinusoidal signal, Its need
in electronics, Concept of voltage and current sources.
Circuit Elements- Resistors, Inductors, Capacitors. Kirchhoff’s current and voltage laws as an extension of
laws of conservation of charge and energy.
Behaviour of circuit components under DC and AC excitation concept of reactance and impedance of R, L
and C. Qualitative explanation of frequency selective circuits - tuning circuits and filters based on reactance
curve. Power in electric circuits – True power, Active power and wattless component. Use of resistors,
inductors and capacitors in everyday life, viz tube-light, fans etc. Working principle of transformer and its
significance in everyday life.

Unit–II: Semiconductor Devices and Circuits (15 Hours)


Material classification on the basis of electrical conductivity- Insulator, Semiconductor and conductor,
importance of semiconductor in Electronics, mechanism of current conduction in semiconductors – electron
and hole transport mechanism, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Basic Concept of P-N Junction, P-N
junction diode as a switching element using piece-wise linear model as an approximation of their I-V
characteristics.
Rectifier- It’s need in electronic circuits, use of diode as Half-Wave and Full-Wave Rectifier using switching
model.
Explanation of working of a simple series regulated power supply. Working Principle of Solar Cell, LED,
Lithium-ion batteries, Mobile charger.

Unit–III Digital Logic Circuits (10 Hours)


Difference between digital and Analog Electronic circuits.
Significance of binary logic in Digital Electronics - Basic Idea of Boolean Algebra, Logic Symbol and Truth
Tables of Basic Logic Gates (AND, OR, NOT), Switching equivalent of Logic gates. Derived Logic Gates
(NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR.
Recommended books:
1. Electronics for Dummies, Gordon McComb, Earl Boysen, Wiley Publishing Inc.
2. Basic Electronics, D. Chattopadhyay, P.C. Rakshit, New Age International (P) Ltd.
3. Electronics: Analog and Digital, I.J. Nagrath, PHI.
4. Basic Electronics: Principles and Applications, Saha, Halder, Ganguly, Cambridge Press.
5. Introduction to Circuit and Network, Gargi Basu, Platinum Publishers.
Semester–I: Skill Enhancement Course
SEC-1: Catch the Python (Credit: 3, Full Marks: 50, 45 Tutorial/Lab Hours)
1. Introduction to Python

Python Introduction, History of Python, Introduction to Python Interpreter and program execution,
Python Installation Process in Windows and Linux, Python IDE, Introduction to anaconda, python
variable declaration, Keywords, Indents in Python, Python input/output operations.
2. Python’s Operators

Arithmetic Operators, Comparison Operators, Assignment Operators, Logical Operators, Bitwise


Operators, Membership Operators, Identity Operators, Ternary Operator, Operator precedence.
Simple examples and exercises.
3. Python’s Built-in Data types

String, List, Tuple, Set, Dictionary (characteristics and methods). Simple examples and exercises.
4. Conditional Statements & Loop

Conditional Statements (If, If-else, If-elif-else, Nested-if etc.) and loop control statements (for,
while, Nested loops, Break, Continue, Pass statements). Simple examples and exercises.
5. Function in python

Introduction to functions, Function definition and calling, Function parameters, Default argument
function, Variable argument function, in built functions in python, Scope of variable in python.
Simple examples and exercises.
6. File Processing

Concept of Files, File opening in various modes and closing of a file, Reading from a file, Writing
onto a file, some important File handling functions e.g open(), close(), read(), readline() etc.
Simple examples and exercises.
7. Modules

Concept of modularization, Importance of modules in python, Importing modules, Built in modules


(ex. Numpy). Simple examples and exercises.
Recommended Books:
1. Python Programming for School Students, M. Verma, Adhyan Books.
2. Head First Python – A brain-friendly guide, Paul Barry, O’Reilly.
3. Let us Python, Y. Knetkar, BPB.
4. Python Programming, Reema Theraja, Oxford.
5. Python – the Complete Reference, Martin C Brown, Pearson.
Evaluation Note

1. Theory Paper: (a) Full Marks 50, to be evaluated by University End Semester Examination
(b) Question Pattern:
Group – A, 10 Marks (5x2=10), Answer any 5 out of 8 questions.
Group – B, 40 Marks (5x8=40), Answer any 5 out of 8 questions.

2. Practical paper : (a) 20 Marks Internal Assessment (to be evaluated by College).


10 Marks for Attendance:
75% & above – 10 Marks
65% to less than 75% – 08 Marks
55% to less than 65% – 05 Marks*
*to be allowed for examination with condonation fee
Less than 55% – Barred from appearing in the University exam

10 Marks for continuous assessment.

(b) 30 Marks final Examination: LNB =5, Viva=5, Experiment=20.


(c) Production of LNB in the final examination is compulsory.

3. MDC paper: (a) To be evaluated by College


(b) 10 Marks Internal Assessment (modality is to be decided by College)
(c) Question Pattern:
Group – A, 20 Marks MCQ (20x1=20, Answer 20 out of 20 questions).
Group – B, 20 Marks (5x4=20, Answer any 4 questions out of 7 questions).

4. SEC paper: (a) To be evaluated by college


(b) 10 Marks Internal Assessment
(c) 20 Marks Practical – Examination
(c) 20 Marks Theory – Examination

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