Semester II SPRING 2016

Details of courses
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Course code

BIO102

Course Title

Introduction to Biology II: Cellular and Molecular Biology

Credits

Course Coordinator

Sudha Rajamani (Coordinator), Nagaraj Balasubramanian

Nature of Course
(Please mark the appropriate
one)

Pre requisites

L- lectures alone
L&T- Lectures & Tutorials
P-Lab sessions alone
L&P- Lectures& Lab sessions
Compulsory course

Objectives (goals, type of

students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Course contents
(details of topics with no of
lectures for each)

This course aims to introduce second semester BS-MS students to

several fundamental facts and concepts in biology. It is aimed to give an
insight on how organisms work at the single and multicellular levels. This
course, more than anything, hopes to spark your imagination and
thinking about how biological systems function and are regulated.
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Basic Biochemistry:
Water and pH (2)
Proteins (3)
Carbohydrates (3)
Nucleic acids (3)
Lipids (3)
Basic Cell Biology:
Prokaryots vs eukaryotes (introduction to microscopy and cellular
organization) (2)
Cell wall and cell membrane (2)
Cytoskeletal network, motor proteins, endomembrane system
and nucleus (4)
Interaction of cells with each and the environment (2)
The central dogma (2)
Cellular ageing (2)

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Evaluation /assessment
(evaluation components
with weightage, Pl keepequal
weightage for end sem& mid
sem exams)
Suggested readings
(with full list of authors,
publisher, year, edn etc.)

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End-sem examination- 30
Mid-sem examination- 30
Quiz I and II - 20
Assignments- 20

Text Book(s)
1) Voet, D., Voet, J.G (2010). Biochemistry, 4th edition, Wiley
2) Harpers Illustrated Biochemistry (2009), 28th edition, McGraw Hill.
3) Campbell and Reece (2005). Biology, 7th edition, Pearson Publishing.
4) Raven, Johnson, Losos and Singer (2005). Biology, 7th edition, McGraw
Hill.
5) Alberts, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts and Walters
(2003). Essential cell biology, 2nd edition, Garland Science.
6) Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith
Roberts, Peter Walter (2007). Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition,
Garland Science.

Course code

BIO 122

2
3

Course Title
Credits

Biology Lab II
3

Course Coordinator

Neelesh Dahanukar (coordinator), Krishanpal Karmodiya, Nishad

Matange, Jeet Kalia, Sonam Mehrotra, Tressa Jacob

Nature of Course
(Please mark the appropriate
one)

6
7

Pre requisites
Objectives (goals, type of
students for whom useful,
outcome etc)
Course contents
(details of topics with no of
lectures for each)

L- lectures alone
L&T- Lectures & Tutorials
P-Lab sessions alone
L&P- Lectures& Lab sessions
None
This practical will cover biochemical, genetic and molecular basis of life.

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Sugar estimation (Colorimetry)

Lipid estimation (Titrimetry)
Amino acid and chlorophyll (paper chromatography)
Protein estimation (spectrophotometry)
Enzyme assay and kinetics
Human genetic traits and blood grouping
Drosophila genetics
DNA isolation

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9. Plasmid DNA isolation

10. Restriction digestion
11. Transformation
12. Protein expression
13. Polymerase Chain Reaction
14. Electrophoresis
Evaluation /assessment
Evaluation will be done on a continuous basis based on the performance
(evaluation components with of students and it will be reflected in the viva and lab-diary evaluations.
weightage, Pl keep equal
Students will have to write a lab-diary with detailed account of work
weightage for end sem and
done in the lab. Two viva will be conducted for each student, one before
mid sem exams)
the mid-sem exam and one before the end-sem exam. A test will be
conducted at the end of the semester to evaluate basic understanding of
the topic.
1. Viva I and lab diary = 30%
2. Viva II and lab diary = 30%
3. Test = 40%
Suggested readings
Text Book(s)
(with full list of authors,
1. Plummer, D.T. (1988) An introduction to practical biochemistry. 3rd
edition. Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi.
publisher, year, edn etc.)
2. Primrose, S.B., Twyman, R.M. and Old, R. W. (1994) Principles of Gene
Manipulation. 5th Edition. Blackwell Science, UK.
3. Strickberger, M.W. (2005) Genetics. Edition 3. Prentice Hall:New
Delhi.

Course code

CHM102

2
3

Course Title
Credits

Chemical Principles II
3

Course Coordinator &

participating faculty(if any)

Nature of Course
(Please mark the appropriate
one)

6
7

Pre requisites
Objectives (goals, type of
students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Dr. Aloke Das (Co-ordinator)

Dr. Arnab Mukherjee
Prof. K. N. Ganesh
L- lectures alone
L&T- Lectures & Tutorials
P-Lab sessions alone
L&P- Lectures& Lab sessions
Core course
The objective of this two-part course is to look at chemistry at the level
of molecules and atoms, and make connections between the rules
governing such microscopic particles to what we observe in the
macroscopic world. In this second part, the focus is to introduce the

principles governing changes in matter.

Other goal is to introduce chemical principles to understand organic
reactions.
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Course contents
(details of topics with no. of
lectures for each)

1. What governs the changes in matter? (1 hr)

Thermodynamics in everyday life, System and surroundings,
macroscopic and microscopic systems
2. Probability, Distribution, and Equilibrium. (1 hr)
Probability distribution of energy equilibrium Le Chateliers
principle from probability
3. Heat and Work (First Law of Thermodynamics) (1hr)
Macroscopic and microscopic understanding of temperature,
internal energy, heat and work, Conversion of internal energy into
work and heat
4. Entropy as the driving force of the change (Second law) (3 hrs)
Everything is about entropy --- Entropy as the arrow of time -Entropy postulate Microscopic definition of entropy -Connection with thermodynamics Thermodynamic postulates -Maximization of Entropy Boltzmann distribution -- Partition
Function Average Property Measurement
5. Maximum Work and Engines (2 hrs)
Maximum Work Carnot Cycle Engine efficiency
6. Other thermodynamic potential (2 hrs)
Gibbs free energy, Helmholtz free energy, enthalpy, their
conversion, Maxwell relations applications
7. Review on rates of chemical reactions: Rate of reaction, Order of
reaction, Molecularity of reaction, Basic laws of kinetics: First
order kinetics, second order kinetics, half life. (1 hr)
8. Experimental determination of reaction order and rate (1 hr)
9. Study of fast reactions: Flow process, Relaxation method. (1 hr)
10. Simultaneous reactions: Opposing reactions, Consecutive
reactions, Parallel reactions (2 hr)
11. Temperature dependence of reaction rate: Arrhenius equation (1
hr)
12. Mechanism of chemical reactions: steady state approximations
and transition state theory (2 hr)
13. Catalysis, enzyme catalysis (1 hr)
14. Unimolecular reaction: Lindemann mechanism (1 hr)
Introduction to Organic Chemistry

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Evaluation /assessment
(evaluation components with
weightage, Pl keep equal
weightage for end sem and
mid sem exams)
Suggested readings
(with full list of authors,
publisher, year, edn etc.)

15. Carbon Compounds and Chemical Bonding: Valance bond theory,

shapes of orbitals; Hybridization/LCAO, Molecular orbital theory;
Hyperconjugation; Resonance; Tautomerism etc, (1 hr)
16. Conformations of acylic and cyclic systems: Deviations from bond
angles, cycloporane, cyclobutane, strain energy etc, High energy
materials from cyclic strained systems, propellanes, staffanes,
cubanes etc. Natural product examples on cyclic small rings,
(natural product drugs, thymine photodimerization, etc,);
Renewable energy models from small strained cyclic systems
(examples,
photoirradiation
of
norbornadiene,
tetramethyldioxetanes,
light
emitting
examples
etc)
(3 hr)
17. Stereochemistry: Importance of stereochemistry, Chirality,
Chirality in biomolecules (proteins, carbobydrates), drugs that
interact with chiral biomolecules, assigning chirality,
streochemical discriptors, R and S, E and Z notations, erythro,
threo; syn, anti notations. Interaction of chiral molecules with
light, optical activity.
(3 hrs)
18. Organic Chemistry in day to day Life: For e.g. Cosmetics, Artificial
Sweeteners,
Food
additives,
etc.
(1 hr)
a. End-sem examination- (40)
b. Mid-sem examination- (30)
c. Quiz- (30)

Text Book(s)
1. Physical Chemistry: Peter Atkins and Julio de Paula
2. Chemical Principles: S.S. Zumdahl (2009) 6th edition, HoughtonMifflin Company
3. Organic chemistry by Jonathen Clayden, N. Greeves, S. Warren, P.
Wothers Oxford University Press
4. Organic Chemistry by Solomon, John Wiley & Sons Inc; 2nd or 3 rd
edition
5. Physical Chemistry, Donald A. McQuarrie and John D. Simon, Viva
Student Edition.

Course code

CHM121

2
3

Course Title
Credits

Chemistry Lab I
3

Course Coordinator &

Dr. Jeetender Chugh (Course Coordinator), Dr. B S M Rao, Dr. Pramod

participating faculty (if any)

Nature of Course
(Please mark the appropriate
one)

6
7

Pre requisites
Objectives (goals, type of
students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Course contents
(details of topics with no. of
lectures for each)

Pillai, Dr. M. Musthafa

L- lectures alone
L&T- Lectures & Tutorials
P-Lab sessions alone
L&P- Lectures& Lab sessions
None
This course is designed to acquaint the students with the practice of
experimental physical chemistry. The goal of the labs is to provide
modest introductions to the core area of scientific activity, which would
help the students to apply the principles of titrations, thermodynamics,
kinetics and spectroscopy presented in the physical chemistry lecture
course, in some illustrative experiments. Students are encouraged to
understand the interconnection between the experimental foundation
and the underlying theoretical principles and appreciate the limitations
inherent in both theoretical treatments and experimental
measurements. Students will gain familiarity with a variety of
measurement techniques, which will help them to understand the
methods to develop the laboratory skills and the ability to work
independently, instill good attitudes and habits towards knowing the
safe way of doing science.
1. Acid Base Titration using pH meter
2. Acid Base Titration using conductivity method
3. Depression in Freezing point
4. Potentiometric titrations
5. Optical Activity by Polarimetry
6. Kinetic Study of Ester hydrolysis
7. UV - VIS Spectrophotometry
8. Heat of Neutralization
9. Colligative properties of Solutions
10. Determine the radius from viscosity measurements

Evaluation /assessment
(Evaluation components with
weightage, Pl keep equal
weightage for end sem and

The overall grade for the entire laboratory course is determined from the
continuous evaluation. REMEMBER there would not be any separate
examination for this course. The respective evaluation components with
weightage are mentioned below:

mid sem exams)

Note Book Evaluation - 40 %
Daily Conduct - 10 %
Viva - 25 %
Exam - 25%
Lab Manual: The Laboratory manual is available from the chemistry
undergraduate laboratory from the respective instructor at the start of
the semester. This contains the details on the experiments including the
procedure, observation and the calculations of respective practical. If you
find any errors or think something is not explained adequately or if you
feel there is a need for improvements, you can let the instructors know.
Supplemental information may then be given to you and the manual
revised for the future use.

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Suggested readings
(with full list of authors,
publisher, year, edn etc.)

Course code

MTH 102

2
3

Course Title
Credits

Multivariable Calculus
3

Course Coordinator

Diganta Borah

Nature of Course

L&T

Pre requisites

None

Objectives

In this course, you will learn about the calculus of scalar/vector

valued functions of several variables. You will study the generalizations of
the notions of continuity, differentiability and integration of real valued
functions which you have learnt in MTH 101. You will get acquainted with
the techniques of partial derivatives, integration along curves and
surfaces; and some of their applications.
There will be equal emphasis on theory and applications of the subject
matter. The material covered in this course is very core to mathematics
and every science student must learn it.

Course contents

1. Differential Calculus: (14 lectures + 7 Tutorials approx..)

Notion of distance and open sets in n-dimensional Euclidean

space R^n, Limits and continuity of functions from R^m to R^n

Partial derivatives and directional derivatives, Gradient of scalar

fields, Divergence and curl of vector fields

Total derivative, Chain rule

Statements of Taylors theorem, implicit function theorem and

inverse function theorem

Maxima and minima, Method of Lagrange multipliers for

extremum points with constraints

Curves in R^3: Arclength and curvature

2. Integral Calculus: (12 lectures + 6 tutorials approx..)

Multiple integrals, Change of variables formula

Line integrals, Statement of Greens Theorem

Surface integrals, Stokes Theorem and Divergence Theorem

Applications to area and volume.

Evaluation /assessment

a. End semester examinationb. Mid semester examinationc. Quizzes and homeworks-

30%
30%
40 %

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Suggested readings

The main textbook: Basic multivariable Calculus by J. Marsden, A.

Tromba and A. Weinstein, Springer-Verlag 1993, Indian Reprint
2004.

Other reference book: Calculus (Volume II) by Tom Apostol

(Second edition (2011), Wiley-India.)

Course code

PHY102

Course Title

World of Physics II - Waves and Matter

Credits

Course Coordinator &

participating faculty

Bhas Bapat* and Sunil Mukhi

Nature of Course

L&T- Lectures & Tutorials

Pre requisites

None

Objectives

To understand the fundamental aspects of wave phenomena and

properties of matter. This is part of an introduction to basics of world of
physics.

Course contents

Oscillations in 1, 2, 3 dimensions, Damped and driven oscillations.

Resonances. [7]
Oscillations of continuous string and Fourier analysis. [4]
Travelling waves, pulses and wave packets, phase and group velocity,
reflection, refraction and transmission, [4]
Electromagnetic waves, polarisation, interference and diffraction. [4]
Properties of deformable media, Hooke's law, stress and strain. [4]
Torsion and bending of rods, deflections of rods. [5]
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Evaluation /assessment

10

Suggested readings

Course code

PHY121

Course Title

Physics Lab I

Credits

Course Coordinator &

participating faculty

Surjeet Singh*, Arijit Bhattacharyay, Apratim Chatterji, Sulabha Kulkarni

Nature of Course

P-Lab sessions alone

Pre requisites

None

Objectives (goals, type of

students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Its a course on experimental learning where emphasis will be placed on

key learning tools including reproducibility in an experiment, variation
and control of experimental parameters, importance of observation,
data analysis, interpretation and case studies of over-analysis leading to
misinterpretation of data. The instructors will also stress on the
importance of maintaining the lab journal.

Course contents

Torsional pendulum, physical pendulum, Young's modulus, coefficient of

End-sem examination 30%

Mid-sem examination 30%
Quizzes/Assignments 40%

1. Waves, F. S. Crawford, (Berkeley Physics Course, Tata McGrawHill Ltd, 2008)

2. Physics of Vibrations and Waves, H. J. Pain, (Wiley, 2005).
3. Vibrations and Waves, A. P. French, (MIT Press/CBS Publishers)
4. Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol II (Addison-Wesley
1963/Narosa 2011)
5. Mechanics (Lectures on Theoretical Physics Vol 1),
Arnold Sommerfeld (Levant Books, Kolkata 2006)

friction, Euler's relation, Faraday's and Lenz's law of electromagnetic

induction, Biot-Savart's law, Stoke's law, numerical experiments.
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Evaluation /assessment

10

Suggested readings

Text Book(s)
1. Handouts will be provided
2. Advanced Practical Physics: B.L. Worsnop and H.T. Flint, Asia
Publishing House

Course code

IDC 102

Course Title

Mathematical Methods

Credits

Course Coordinator

Sudarshan Ananth

Nature of Course

L- lectures alone

Pre requisites

None

Objectives (goals, type of

students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Covers aspects of mathematical methods used in all the basic sciences.

Should prove useful to all BS-MS students.

Course contents
(details of topics /sections
with no. of lectures for each)

1. Introduction to Vectors

End-sem examination: 30 %
Mid-sem examination: 30 %
Lab journal and periodic viva: 40 %

2. Divergence, Gradient, Curl

3. Elements of Vector Calculus
4. Introduction to differential equations
5. Fourier Transforms and small oscillations
6. Sequences and Series

Evaluation /assessment

a.
b.
c.

End-sem examination- 35%

Mid-sem examination- 35%
Assignments- 30%

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Suggested readings
(with full list of authors,
publisher, year, edn etc.)

Text Book(s)
1. Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Mary Boas,
Wiley, 3E, 2005
2. Mathematical methods for physicists, Arfken, Weber, and Harris,
Elsevier Academic Press, 6E, 2005

Course code

HSS 102

2
3

Course Title
Credits

Critical Reading and Communication

02

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Course Coordinators
Nature of Course
Prerequisites
Objectives (goals, type of
students for whom useful,
outcome etc)

Course contents

Evaluation /assessment

Aditi Deo, Pooja Sancheti*

L+ T (lectures and tutorials)
None
1) To develop critical reading and thinking skills that will enable students
to identify and evaluate arguments, evidence provided, steps of
reasoning, conclusions
2) To develop effective writing skills in terms of appropriate language,
organizational structure and sound content
3) To cultivate oral presentation skills applicable to a wide variety of
settings
4) To understand natural sciences as part of society and explore their
relationships with humanities and social sciences
The course involves extensive reading of assigned non-technical articles
on a variety of topics related to science and society
1. History of science&technology
2. Biographies of scientists
3. Interactions between sciences and humanities, particularly creative
art (e.g. science fiction; art-science creative collaborations)
4. Overlap of social sciences and natural sciences (e.g. economics and
evolutionary biology)
5. Social differences (e.g. class/ caste/ gender/ religion/ region/
language) and social institutions (e.g. nation/ politics/ religion) that
affect science
Students are expected to write short notes on a variety of topics and
participate in discussions and debates in the class room
a. End-sem examination- 30%
b. Mid-sem examination- 30%
c. Project work/term paper- 20%
d. Quiz - 10%
e. Assignment/s and participation- 10%

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Suggested readings

Assigned readings