Paper Code: 75/2015

Date of Test: [Not officially specified]

Exam Category: Technical / Subject-Specific

Applicable Posts: Lecturer in Physics, Laboratory Assistant (Higher Education/Technical Education), Technical Assistant, and other similar posts in government departments and educational institutions.

Exam Structure

The syllabus was aligned with the graduate and postgraduate curriculum of Physics (B.Sc. and M.Sc. level), focusing on theoretical understanding and practical applications.

 Classical Mechanics

• Newton’s laws, motion of systems

• Conservation laws

• Central force problems

• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics

Electromagnetism

• Electrostatics, Gauss’s law, capacitance

• Magnetostatics, Biot–Savart law, Ampere’s law

• Maxwell’s equations

• EM wave propagation in vacuum and media

Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics

• Laws of thermodynamics

• Entropy, heat engines

• Classical and quantum statistics (Fermi-Dirac, Bose-Einstein)

Optics

• Interference, diffraction, and polarization

• Lasers and fiber optics

• Ray and wave optics principles

Electronics

• Semiconductor devices (diodes, transistors, op-amps)

• Digital electronics basics

• Logic gates, flip-flops, and microprocessors

Quantum Mechanics

• Wave-particle duality

• Schrödinger equation

• Operators and observables

• Hydrogen atom and angular momentum

Atomic & Molecular Physics

• Atomic models, Zeeman effect

• Molecular spectra

• Electron spin and fine structure

Nuclear & Particle Physics

• Nuclear structure, decay modes

• Detectors and accelerators

• Elementary particles and classifications

 Solid State Physics

• Crystal structure, X-ray diffraction

• Band theory of solids

• Semiconductors and superconductors

 Difficulty Level Analysis

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