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Upsc Civil Services Physics Syllabus

The document discusses topics in electricity and magnetism and thermal and statistical physics. It covers electrostatics, magnetostatics, current electricity, electromagnetic waves, blackbody radiation, laws of thermodynamics, statistical distributions, specific heat of gases and solids, and applications of thermodynamics.

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Upsc Civil Services Physics Syllabus

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UPSC CIVIL SERVICES PHYSICS PAPER - I(2012)

Electricity and Magnetism, Thermal and Statistical Physics 3. Electricity and Magnetism: (a) Electrostatics and Magneto-statics: Laplace and Poisson equations in electro-statics and their applications; Energy of a system of charges, multi pole expansion of scalar potential; Method of images and its applications; Potential and field due to a dipole, force and torque on a dipole in an external field; Dielectrics, polarization; Solutions to boundary-value problems-conducting and dielectric spheres in a uniform electric field; Magnetic shell, uniformly magnetized sphere; Ferromagnetic mate-rials, hysteresis, energy loss. (b) Current Electricity: Kirchhoffs laws and their applications; Biot-Savart law, Amperes law, Faradays law, Lenz law; Self-and mutual-inductances; Mean and r m s values in AC circuits; DC and AC circuits with R, L and C components; Series and parallel resonances; Quality factor; Principle of transformer. (c) Electromagnetic Waves and Black-body Radiation: Displacement current and Maxwells equations; Wave equations in vacuum, Poynting theorem; Vector and scalar potentials; Electromagnetic field tensor, covariance of Maxwells equations; Wave equations in isotropic dielectrics, reflection and refraction at the boundary of two dielectrics;Fresnels relations; Total internal reflection; Normal and anomalous dispersion; Rayleigh scattering; Black body radiation and Plancks radiation law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wiens displacement law and Rayleigh-Jeans law. 4. Thermal and Statistical Physics: (a) Thermodynamics: Laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy; Isothermal, adiabatic, isobaric, isochoric processes and entropy changes; Otto and Diesel engines, Gibbs phase rule and chemical potential; van der Waals equation of state of a real gas, critical constants; Maxwell-Boltzman distribution of molecular velocities, transport phenomena, equipartition and virial theorems; Dulong-Petit, Einstein, and Debyes theories of specific heat of solids; Maxwell relations and applications; Clausius- Clapeyron equation; Adiabatic demagnetisation, Joule-Kelvin effect and liquefaction of gases. (b) Statistical Physics: Macro and micro states, statistical distributions, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac distributions, applications to specific heat of gases and blackbody radiation; Concept of negative temperatures.

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