ACADEMIC DEMO TOPICS

1. PHYSICS- Any chapter from these topics-

a) Mechanics

b) Thermodynamics

c) Optics

d) Electromagnetism

e) Waves

2. CHEMISTRY

Physical Chemistry:

1. Gaseous State: Fundamentals of an Ideal Gas, ideal gas equation and its applications on numerical

2. Gaseous state: Fundamentals of real gases, compressibility factor, graphs, potential energy concept,
real gas equation and applications

3. Thermodynamics: Isothermal and adiabatic processes, comparisons, equations, graphs and related
functions like work done etc

4. Thermodynamics: Concept of entropy, second law and its applications, Gibb’s free energy

5. Chemical Equilibrium: Fundamentals of equilibrium, equilibrium constant and its applications with
reference to Le Chatelier’s principle

6. Ionic Equilibrium: Solubility product and its detailed applications

7. Electrochemistry: Fundamentals of Electrochemical cells, Nernst equation and applications

8. Kinetics: Rate law and order of reaction. First order reactions in detail.

9. Kinetics: Effect of temperature on rate of reactions and Arrhenius equation

Inorganic:

1. Periodic Table: General trends in periods and groups, ionisation energy, affinity and their applications

2. Bonding: VSEPR and hybridisation with examples and details

3. Coordination compounds: Crystal field splitting concept and applications with details of hybridisation
of complexes

Organic:

1. Resonance - Concept, Delocalization, Conjugation, Conjugated Systems, Application in Mesomeric

Effect.

2. Optical Isomerism - Chirality, Chiral Carbon and compound. Enantiomers, Diastereomers, Meso
Compounds, Resolution, Racemization.

3. Confomers - Butane, Cyclohexane , Stability of Geometrical Isomers in Cyclohexane.

4. Aromaticity and Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution - Mechanism, Reactions of substituted benzenes.

5. Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination - Reaction Mechanisms of Sn1, Sn2, E1, E2 and their
comparative analysis.

6. Aldehydes and Ketones - Addition Reaction, Mechanism of Keto-Enol Tautomerism, Reactions of

Enols and Enolate Ions.

3. MATHS

a) Quadratic Equations
b) Coordinate Geometry
c) Application of Derivatives
d) Functions & Graphs
e) Vectors
f) Complex Numbers.
Note- The demo should not be only theoretical, they should include some problem solving
also.