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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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