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Physics (Subject Code - 05)

Section - A

1. Mechanics: Systems of particles, centre of mass in lab system, motion of rigid bodies, linear and angular momentum, conservation laws, moment of inertia,. Central forces, Motion under inverse square law, gravitational field, Kepler's laws, Satellites, special theory of relativity, Lorentz transformation, Elastic moduli, torsion of cylinders, bending of beams, fluid dynamics, equation of continuity, Bernoullis theorem, Viscosity, Poiseulle's equation.
2. Thermal Physics: Laws of thermodynamics, entropy, Carnot Cycle, Isothermal and adiabatic processes, thermodynamic potentials, Maxwell's relation, Joul-Kelvin effect, Kinetic theory of gasses, Maxwell's velocity distribution, mean free path, transport phenomenon Vander Wall's equation of state, Black body radiation, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Weins and Rayleigh Jean's law, Planks law, Weins displacement law.
3. Waves and Osciliations: Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillations, forced oscillations and resonance, wave equation and its solution, phase and group velocities. Acousic impedance, reflection and transmission of plane waves at a discontinuity, Ultrasonics.
4. Optics: Huygen's principle, division, of wave front and amplitude, Interference of thin films, diffraction, Fraunhoffer and Fresnel differaction, Gratings Zone plate. Polarization light, linearly, circulary and elliptically polarized lights, double refraction, Optical polarimeters, simple concepts of laser.

Section-B

5. Electricity & Magnetism: Electric charge field and potential, Coulomb's law, Gauss's law and their applications, Electric dipole, dielectrics, surface and volume bound charges, electric displacement, Biot-Savart's law, Ampere's circuital law, Magnetization, Dia-para and ferromagnetism, magnelization current, Electromagnetic induction, Faraday's law, self and mutual inductance, Maxwell';s equations and electromagnetic waves. Poynting vector, Alternating current LCR.circuits, Impedance. Motion of charged particle in magnetic field hall effect.
6. Modern Physics: Bhor's theory of Hydrogen atom, X-ray spectra, Mostey's law, Bragg's law, electron spin, Paul's exclusion principle. Space quantization vector atom model Zeeman effect, Raman effect, photoelectric effect, wave nature of particle, de Broglle waves, wave packets Heiserberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger wave equation particle in a box. Radioactivity, Kinetics of decay, radio active series nuclear BE, nuclear fission and fusion, nuclear energy, particle accelerators, cyclotron, classification of elementary particles. Super conductivity.
7. Electronics: Intrinsic and extrinsic semi conductors, injunction, diode equation, zener diode, rectification and regulation, thermator, photo-conductors and photo-diodes, PNP, NPN transistors, CE, CB and CC configuration h-parameters, audio amplifiers, conditions of oscilliation Modulation and detection logic gates, AND OR NOR, NAND gates and their truth tables.

UPPSC - Combined Lower Subordinate Services Exam 2009 Physics Syllabus