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ASSIGNMENT TOPIC FOR FIRST YEAR B.H.M. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2012

Part I English
Paper I GENERAL ENGLISH (DENG 1)

Answer all Questions Each Assignment carries Max: 20 marks

Assignment - I
PART A: (ANALYTICAL SKILLS)

1. Read the following passages and answer the questions that follow :
(a) He became the hero of the day. They watched him in great administration and decided to
reward him adequately
(i) Who is the he of the passage?
(ii) Who are they?
(iii) How did they watch him?
(iv) What did they decide?
(v) From which lesson is this passage taken.
(b) They were both dripping wet, of course, but in addition Eve had lost her hand bag, in
which, to prevent it from getting splashed, she had put a gold wrist watch which had
been given to her on her twenty-first birthday only two months before.
(i) What had Eve lost?
(1) her books (2) her money
(3) her hand bag (4) her keys
(ii) What was there in her hand bag?
(1) money (2) gold wrist-watch
(3) bus ticket (4) books
(iii) Why did she put her gold wrist watch in the hand bag?
(1) to hide it (2) to prevent from stealing
(3) to save it from sun (4) to prevent from getting splashed
(iv) When was she given to gold watch?
(1) One year before (2) Five days before
(3) On the New Year Day (4) On her twenty-first birthday
(v) From which lesson is this passage taken?
(1) Lovers' Reunion (2) Dolly at the Dentist
(3) Letter to Indu (4) The thief's story
2. (a) Correct the following sentences :
(i) I have written a letter to him yesterday.
(ii) One of my friends live in Bombay.
(iii) Rani was married with Alok.
(iv) He is a best player.
(v) Does he knows you?
(b) Rewrite the sentences as directed :
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(i) Lock the door. (Change the voice)
(ii) Bombay is the largest city in India. (change into comparative degree)
(iii) Hema asked me if I had finished my homework. (Convey the meaning changing to
direct speech)
(iv) We left Rosy at the station and went back home. (Change into complex sentence)
(v) She is good mathematics. (Insert the correct prepositions)
(c) Change the following into indirect speech :
(i) Gopal said, Did you finish your lunch?
(ii) She said : I am watering the plants.
(d) Fill in the blanks with correct forms of verbs given in the brackets :
(i) He to church every Sunday. (go)
(ii) She the TV now. (watch)
(iii) I for you since 5 P.M. (wait)
(iv) She French. (know)
(v) They a new car last month. (buy)
(e) Fill in the blanks with suitable words given at the end of the list :
(i) The salesman is a new product.
(ii) Marriages are in Heaven.
(iii) of the boys got first class.
(iv) him be congratulated.
(v) Rome was not built in a .
(day, neither, made, demonstrating, let)
(f) Rewrite the following set of jumbled sentences to make them into a coherent passage :
(i) Water and milk heat we should vessels separate in.
(ii) When boils water the we tea powder should put it in.
(iii) Milk when the is boiled mix we should the milk hot tea decoction with.
(iv) It filter cups into then tea and is ready.
(g) Attempt a dialogue between a mother and daughter about their plans to buy new clothes
for Sankranti festival.
(h) Write a paragraph using the following hints :
Planning for a picnic - fixing a private bus cooks food materials singing songs
returning to college hostel by evening.
(i) Write an essay in about 100 words on any all of the following :
(i) Revolution in the development of communications - The Telephone.
(ii) Impact of TV on students.
(iii) Influence of science and technology on modern man's life.

Assignment - II

PART B: (DESCRIPTIVE SKILLS)

3. Write an essay on all of the following :
(a) How did Dasa escape from the punishment held out to him by the inmates of the
bungalow?
(b) Narrate in your own words the mystery that surrounds the cufflinks.
(c) Describe Nehru's life in prison.
4. Write short notes on all of the following :
(a) Give a brief summary of the thoughts expressed by Edmund Waller in his poem,
Go, Lovely Rose.
(b) Write an appreciation of Wordsworth's poem The Tables Turned.
(c) Why does Edgar Allan Poe consider science as the destroyer of poetry?
(d) What is the message of poem, Laugh and Be Merry?
(e) What are the joys of the Primitive Africans as expressed in the poem, Piano and
Drums?
5. Write an essay on all of the following :
(a) Sketch the character of Sudershom Sharma as you find in The Gold watch.
(b) Narrate how the salesman suffered by his excessive care and honesty in the story,
Lemon, Yellow and Fig.
(c) Summarise Tolstoy's story, God Sees the Truth but Waits.
6. (a) Explain all of the following :
(i) I have learnt from experience that I am not wise enough to advise others.
(ii) Your first! do mean to say that you began practising on me?
(iii) I could live like an oil-rich Arab for a week or two.
(b) Explain all of the following :
(i) Up! Up! My Friend, and quit your books;
or surely you'll grow double:
(ii) No,
The root is to be pulled out --
Out of the anchoring earth;


Part I Telugu
Paper I POETRY, NOVEL AND GRAMMAR (DTEL 1)


Assignment - I
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Part I Hindi

Paper I GENERAL HINDI (DHIN 1) (NR)


Assignment - I

Assignment - II


Part I Sanskrit

Paper I POETRY, GRAMMAR AND TRANSLATION (DSAN 1) (NR)


Assignment - I

Assignment - II

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ASSIGNMENT TOPIC FOR FIRST YEAR B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2012
Part II Economics
Paper I ECONOMIC THEORY (DECO 1)


Assignment - I
1. Explain how the consumer attains equilibrium using indifference curves.
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2. Explain the short-run and long-run costs and their interrelationship with suitable
diagrams.
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3. Discuss the equilibrium price and output determination under perfect competition.
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4. Critically explain the Keynesian theory of income determination.
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5. Distinguish between Micro Economics and Macro Economics.
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6. Explain the methods of measuring price elasticity of demand.
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7. Elucidate the marginal productivity theory and its limitations.
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8. Explain the consequences of inflation and suggest suitable measures to control inflation.
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Assignment - II

9. Explain the methods of credit creation by commercial banks.
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10. Critically explain the liquidity preference theory of interest.
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11. Circular flow of economic activities.
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12. Law of demand.
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13. Consumption function.
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14. Returns to scale.
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15. Marginal efficiency of capital.
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16. Cost-push inflation.
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ASSIGNMENT TOPIC FOR FIRST YEAR B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
DECEMBER 2012
Part II History
Paper I INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE (DHIS 1)


Assignment - I
01. Write about the sources of Indian History.
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02. Give an account of Mauryan Administration.
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03. Examine India's cultural contacts with South East and East Asia.
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04. Describe the reforms introduced by Allauddin Khilji.
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05. Describe the salient features of Indus Valley Civilisation.
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Assignment - II
06. Estimate the greatness of Harsha.
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07. Write about Pallavas art and architecture.
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08. Discuss the cultural contribution of Kakatiyas.
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09. Write about Invasions of Ghazni.
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10. Why Mohammad Bin Tughlaq was called a Mad Sultan?
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(a) Aryans.
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(b) Gautama Buddha.
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(c) Chola Village Administration.
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(d) Samudra gupta.
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(e) Ashta diggajas.
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(f) Sultana Raziya.
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Part II Political Science
Paper I CONCEPTS, THEORIES AND INSTITUTIONS (DPOL 1)


Assignment - I
1. Political Science is an Art Discuss.
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2. Examine the relationship between political science and sociology.
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3. Explain the theory of Divine Right.
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4. Write a note on the kinds of Rights.
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5. What are the functions of Legislature?
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6. Examine the merits and demerits of presidential form of government.
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7. Write about John Austin Theory of Sovereignty.
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Assignment - II
8. What are the merits and demerits of unwritten constitution?
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9. Examine the merits and demerits of Multi Party System.
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10. Explain the Social contract theory.
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11. Assess the contribution of Aristotle to political philosophy.
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12. Examine Hobbes views on Human Nature.
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13. (a) Pluralism.
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(b) Welfare state and social justice.
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(c) Public opinion.
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(d) Idealist theory.
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(e) Dictatorship.
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(f) Marxian theory of property.
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(g) Popular Sovereignty.
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14. (a) Answer the following in 1 or 2 sentences :
(i) Aristocracy.
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(ii) Statesman.

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(iii) Republic.
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(iv) Deductive method.
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(v) Sovereignty.
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(vi) Financial Emergency.
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(vii) Rajya Sabha.
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(viii) Double Citizenship.
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(ix) Father of the constitution.
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(x) Sushmaswaraj.
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(b) Answer the following in 1 or 2 words :
(i) Rajadharma
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(ii) How many parts are there in Leviethan?
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(iii) Common Wealth.
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(iv) Name of Rousseau's father.
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(v) The communist manifesto.
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Part II Public Administration
Paper I CONCEPT AND THEORIES (DPAD 1)
Assignment - I
1. Discuss the importance of public administration in developing countries.
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2. Examine Elton Mayo's contribution to human relations approach.
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3. Explain Max Weber's concept of bureaucracy.
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4. Assess the contribution of Herbert Simon to behavioural approach.
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5. Explain Weidner's concept of development administration.
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6. Bring out the relationship between public administration and economics.
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7. Describe the functions of line agencies.
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Assignment - II
8. Examine the merits of decentralisation.
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9. Explain the methods for securing coordination.
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10. Discuss Mc Gregor's theory 'Y'.
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11. Examine Likert's systems of management.
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12. Examine different types of plans.
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13. (a) Classical Approach.
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(b) Comparative Public Administration.

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(c) Politics - Administration Dichotomy.
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(d) Administrative Adjudication.
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(e) Communications.
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(f) Ecological Approach.
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(g) Staff Agencies.
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(i) Public Relations.
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(ii) Leadership.
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(iii) Division of work.
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(iv) Span of control.
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(v) Legislative control.
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(vi) Authority.
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(vii) Informal organisation.
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(viii) Theory 'X'.
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(ix) Supervision.
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(x) Unity of Command.
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(b) Answer the following in 1 or 2 words:

(i) Who formulated the term POSDCORB?
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(ii) Who conducted Hawthorne studies?
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(iii) Who is the father of public administration?
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(iv) Who wrote Behaviouralism?
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(v) Who formulated the concept of decision-making?
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Part II Sociology

Paper I PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY (DSOC 1)


Assignment - I
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1. Define sociology and explain its origin and development.
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2. Examine the relationship between individual and society.
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3. Define socialization and explain the process of socialization.
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4. What is social group? Discuss its characteristics.
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5. What is meant by social disorganization? Explain its causes.
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Assignment - II

6. Write an essay on Role and status.
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7. Explain the influence of heredity and environment on individual.
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8. What is social interaction? Discuss its disociative process.
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9. Define caste and explain its characteristics and functions.
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10. Write short notes on any TWO of the following :
(a) Primary groups
(b) Institutions
(c) Culture and personality
(d) Powers and authority.
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Part II Special Telugu
Paper I MODERN LANGUAGE (DSTEL 11)
Assignment - I
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Assignment - II
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Part II Special English

Paper I SPECIAL ENGLISH (DSENG 11)
Assignment - I
7. (a) Answer ALL of the following, each in 200 words.
(i) Write a note on the development of standard English.
(ii) How did the printing press affect the evolution of English language?
(iii) Trace the Latin influence on English.
(iv) Attempt a paragraph each on all of the following :
(1) Word formation
(2) Prudery
(3) Popular misunderstanding
(4) Elevation.
Read the following passages (b) and (c) carefully and answer the questions that
follow your answers should be complete. They will be evaluated by the correctness
of your language and relevant matter.

(b) He had just arrived in madras for a convention when it happened. As he waited for
a taxi at the airport, he had a coughing spasm, and horrified witnesses saw him
collapse face down. He was dead on arrival at the hospital. Within an hour, the
thirty-year-old executive with a bright future had become a body with a tag on its
toes in the outopsy room. And 2500 kilometers away a telephone range, bringing
the shattering news to a wife and two young children.
(i) Why did the arrive in madras?
(ii) Who was he?
(iii) After a coughing spasm what happened to him?
(iv) How for was his home from madras?
(v) Who heard the shattering news on phone?
(c) O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumns being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes :
(i) Whose breath is the west wind?
(ii) Who are driven by the unseen presence of the west wind?
(iii) To whom are the dead leaves compared?
(iv) Describe the dead leaves.
(v) What is the meaning of multitudes?
8. (a) Answer ALL of the following in 200 words.

(i) Bring out the power and strength of the West Wind as depicted in the poem,
Ode to the west wind.
(ii) Bring out the theme of the poem,
Scorn not the Sonnet.
(iii) Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem, A Red, Red Rose.
(b) Attempt ALL of the following in about 200 words.
(i) Write a critical appreciation of the poem,
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
(ii) Bring out the elegiac thoughts
ex-pressed by Gray in his poem Elegy written in a country churchyard
(iii) Consider Brownings My Last Duchess as a dramatic monologue.

Assignment - II
9. Answer ALL in about 200 words.

(a) Write an essay on plot bringing out the conflict and solution in The Best Laid
Plans.
(b) What is the central theme of the play, Mothers Day?
(c) Consider A marriage proposal as a good comedy.
(d) Write an essay on the origin and technique of the One-Act-Play.
10. Answer ALL of the following in 200 words each.
(a) Describe the role of point of view in a short story.
(b) Narrate the story of The Interview in your own words.
(c) Write an essay on the setting and atmosphere found in the story, The
Tell-Tale Heart.
(d) Write an essay on the narrative skills of G.Henry, as you find in The Gift of the
Magi.



Part II Computer Applications

Paper I COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS (DBCA 11)


Assignment - I
1. What are the advantages of computers?
2. Explain different parts of a computer.
3. Describe the trend in the development of software.
4. What are the applications of software?
5. Discuss the data communications in computers.

Assignment - II
1. Bring out the future of computers.
2. Distinguish between LAN and WAN.
3. Enumerate the limitations of computer.
4. Explain the secondary storage devices in computers.
5. What are the applications of internet?

ASSIGNMENT TOPIC FOR FIRST YEAR B.A./ B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2012
Part II Mathematics
Paper I DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, ABSTRACT ALGEBRA AND VECTOR
CALCUS (DBMAT 11)/(DSMAT 11)
Assignment - I
1. Solve ( ) ( ) p x py y px 2 = + .. .
2. Form the differential equation by eliminating the arbitrary constants b a, from
x x
e x b e a y
2 2
+ = .

x x
e x b e a y
2 2
+ = .. ...- . .. . . . . . . - .- . .
3. Solve dx y x dx y dy x
2 2
+ = .
4. Solve ( )
3 2
1 x y D D = + + .
5. Define Euler's function | . Find ( ) 6 | .
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6. Define the centre of a group G. Show that the centre of a group G is an abelian subgroup
of G.
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7. If | is a differentiable scalar point function, then prove that ( ) 0 grad Curl = | .
| . - . . . ... ( ) 0 grad Curl = | .
8. If j y i y x F
2
3 = , then evaluate x d F
C

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where C is the curve
2
2x y = in the Y X -
plane from ( ) 0 , 0 to ( ) 2 , 1 .
j y i y x F
2
3 = ... , Y X ( ) 0 , 0 .. ( ) 2 , 1 . .
2
2x y = . C x d F
C

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Assignment - II
9. (a) (i) Prove that the necessary and sufficient condition for the differential equation
0 = + dy N dx M to be exact is that
x
N
y
M
c
c
=
c
c
.
0 = + dy N dx M . . . . . -. - - ,
x
N
y
M
c
c
=
c
c
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(ii) Reduce the equation ( ) 0 1
2 2 2
= + + + y x p y x p y x to clairants form and find
its signgular solution.

( ) 0 1
2 2 2
= + + + y x p y x p y x . . . - . . ...- , - -.
... .. .

(b) (i) Find the general solution of
( ) z y x
dz
xy
dy
y x
dx
+
= =
+ 2
2 2
.

( ) z y x
dz
xy
dy
y x
dx
+
= =
+ 2
2 2
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(ii) Solve ( ) ( ) 0 3 2
2 3 2 2
= dy y x x dx y x y x .. .
10. (a) (i) Solve ( ) x a y a D tan
2 2
= + by the method of variation of parameters.
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2 2
= + .. .
(ii) Solve ( )
x
e x y D D
4 2
6 5 = + .. .
(b) (i) Find the complete solution of , 2 sin
2
2
2
y
dx
y d
x = if x y cot = is one of its
solution.
y
dx
y d
x 2 sin
2
2
2
= . . . - x y cot = , . ... , . . . - . . ...
.. .
(ii) Solve ( ) x x y D D 3 cos 2 cos 2 3
2
= + .. .
11. (a) (i) State and prove the Cayley's theorem.
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(ii) Define a permutation, a cycle and a disjoint cycle. Prove that every
permutation o defined on finite set S is a product of disjoint cycles.
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(b) (i) State and prove the Lagranges theorem for finite groups.
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(ii) Let N be a normal subgroup of a group G. Show that N is a maximal
normal subgroup of G if and only if N G is a simple group.
G . . N . . .. -. G .. . . N - -
N G .. . . - - . .- . .
12. (a) (i) Find the curvature K and torsion T for the space curve
t y t t x cos 1 , sin = = , t z = .
.- t y t t x cos 1 , sin = = , t z = . . K , . T .. .. .
(ii) State and prove the stokes theorem.
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(b) (i) Find the directional derivative of zx yz xy f + + = 5 2 at the point ( ) 3 , 2 , 1 in
the direction of k j i 4 5 3 + .

k j i 4 5 3 + ( ) 3 , 2 , 1 . , zx yz xy f + + = 5 2 .. , . ....
.. .
(ii) Evaluate ds N F
S

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where k z y j x i Z F
2
3 + = and S is the surface
16
2 2
= + y x included in the first octant between 0 = z and 5 = z .
k z y j x i Z F
2
3 + = .... ., S 0 = z , 5 = z . . ,
16
2 2
= + y x . . ds N F
S

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ASSIGNMENT TOPIC FOR FIRST YEAR B.A./B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2012

Part II Statistics
Paper I PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS (DBSTT 11/DSSTT 11)

Assignment - I
1. (a) How will you calculate median in case of ungrouped data?
(b) Find the medians of the following two series.
(i) 38 34 39 35 32 31 37 30 41.
(ii) 30 31 36 33 29 28 35 36.
2. (a) Explain the concept of probability following :
(i) Mathematical or a priori approach.
(ii) Relative frequency or empirical approach.
(b) (i) Define random experiment, trail and event.
(ii) What do you understand by
(1) equally likely
(2) mutually exclusive and
(3) independent events.
3. (a) Define a random variable and its mathematical expection.
(b) A random variable X has the following probability function.
x: 1 0 1 2
p(x) : 1/3 1/6 1/6 1/3
Compute the expection of x.
4. (a) Discuss different types of variables with examples.
(b) What is the probability mass function (p.m.f)?
5. (a) What do you understand by binomial distribution? What are its main features?
(b) 12% of the items produced by a machine are defective. What is the probability that out
a random sample of 20 items produced by the machine, 5 are defective?

Assignment - II
6. (a) Name the six situations where Poisson distribution can have applications.
(b) The average number of customers, who appear at a co center of a certain bank per
minute is two. Find the probability that during a given minute.
(i) No customer appears
(ii) Three or more customers appear.
7. (a) Define normal distribution. What are the main characteristics of a normal distribution?
(b) X ~ N (0.1). Find out which one is greater ( ) 1 . 0 5 . 0 s s x p or ( ) 2 1 s s x p .
8. (a) State the conditions under which a binomial distribution tends to
(i) Poisson distribution
(ii) Normal distribution
(b) A random variable X is normally distributed with mean 12 = and 2 . = o d s . Find
( ) 8 . 13 6 . 9 < < x p .
9. Explain very briefly the following :
(a) Sheppards corrections.
(b) Skewness.
(c) Quartiles.
(d) Distribution function.
(e) Probability mass function.
(f) Central limit theorem.
(g) Geometric distribution.
(h) Negative Binomial distribution.
(i) Characteristic function
(j) Rectangular distribution.

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