FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING MAIN TOPICS OF PROGRAMME NO.

10/2012 ITEM 9

(MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS OF RADIO & TELEVISION) VOCATIONAL HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION CATEGORY NO. 81/2010 SYLLABUS 1. ELECTRIC CIRCUIT, NETWORKS, MAGNETISM, AC FUNDAMENTALS, TRANSFORMERS

VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTOR

Electric Current, Voltage Resistance, Specific Resistance, Electric Power, Electric Energy Definition and Units, Laws of Resistance, Temperature Co-efficient of resistance, Ohms Law, Series, Parallel, Series parallel circuits (DC) calculation of branch current and voltages, Kirchhoffs Laws, Superposition theorem, Thevinins Theorem, Static Electricity, electric field, field strength or field intensity, flux density, flux, Faradays Laws of electromagnetic induction, Flemings right hand rule, Flemings left hand rule. Generation of AC single phase & three phase voltage, difference between AC and DC voltage, cycle, frequency, time period, amplitude, RMS value, average value, power factor, form factor, Q factor, phase, phase difference definitions, reactance, impedance in RLC series circuit, Resonance, single phase and three phase power formula, voltage and current in star and delta connections, Transformer construction and working principle, motors and generators working principles, relays.

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PASSIVE COMPONENTS, ACTIVE COMPONENTS, SEMI CONDUCTORS, DISPLAY DEVICES, L E D

Carbon film resistor, wire wound resistors, metal film resistor- application, colour coding, variable resistors applications, tolerance. Capacitor paper, mica, polyester, ceramic construction and applications, variable capacitors applications. Inductors, Chokes RF and AF applications, conductors, insulators, semi conductors, intrinsic and extrinsic semi conductors, electrons, holes, doping, P and N type, majority and minority carriers, PN junction, depletion layer, behaviour of PN junction under forward and reverse bias, static and dynamic resistance, half wave, full wave, bridge rectifiers, ripple factor, different types of filters, PNP and NPN transistors, CB and CE configurations, clipping and clamping circuits positive and negative, zenor diodes applications. UJT, FET, MOSFET, SCR, DIAC, TRIAC, power diodes symbols and applications, photo voltaic cell, L E D construction applications, LCD, LDR, OPTO

COUPLER, PHOTO diode working and applications, seven segment display, laser diodes - applications

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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS MEASURING INSTRUMENTS AND INTRUMENTATION, TRANSDUCERS, POWER SUPPLY

Primary instrument, secondary instruments, voltmeter, ammeter, wattmeter, multimeters analogue and digital meters, difference between analogue and digital meters, Energy meter Megger applications, CRO, CRT, measurement of voltage, time period, frequency, and display of wave forms by using CRO. Transducers definition applications selection, LVDT, Wheat stone bridge, Strain guage, thermo couples, thermisters, Piezo electric transducers applications. Function generators, RF generators, AF generators construction, applications, power supply, voltage regulation, shunt voltage regulator, series voltages regulator, zenor voltage regulator construction, fixed and variables voltage power supply, DC regulated power supply, SMPS working, applications, UPS ON line UPS, OFF line UPS.

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DIGITAL ELECTRONICS, OP-AMPS, POWER AMPLIFIERS, OSCILLATORS

Number System, concept of bit and byte, convert decimal, hexadecimal to binary and vice versa, binary addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, logic gates symbols and truth table of AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, EX-OR gates, Universal gates, Bollen Algebra, De-Morgans theorem, Half adder Full adder-truth table and symbols, Subtractor, Encoders and Decoders, Multiplexers and De-multiplexers, flip flops JK, SR, T&D-flip flops, Counters synchronous and asynchronous, Shift registers types, A/D converter, D/A converter, Modems, Op-amps working characteristics applications, Schmitt trigger, integrator, differentiator, basic principles of single stage and multi stage amplifier, power amplifier, direct coupled, RC coupled amplifier, Class A, Class B, Class C amplifier, feedback (positive and negative) amplifier,Oscillators, principles of sinusoidal oscillation, Barkhausen criterion, RC oscillator, crystal oscillator, Hartly oscillators applications, conditions oscillator, multivibrators Astable, mono stable, bitable, basic concept of ICs merits and limitations of ICs applications, Types of ICs analogue & digital, heat sinks.

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COMMUNICATIONS, MICRO PROCESSORS, ANTENNAS

Introduction, Elements of communication systems, modulation and demodulation, need for modulation, amplitude modulation, band width, frequency & phase modulation, AM receivers, narrow band and wide band FM, FM transmitters and receivers, PCM, PWM, PPM, Satellite Communication system, antenna types, dish antenna, DTH working, applications, Optical Fibre communications, DVD player, Colour TV, colour mixing, Plasma Television, LCD Television, Mobile TV, Public Address System, MP3 system, Introduction to microprocessors 8085, PC, SP, ALU, Control Unit, Micro controller 8051, Ports & other peripheral devices, interfacing of memory and other devices RAM, ROM, PROMS, main features of micro processors and micro controllers, register structure of micro processors.

NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper.