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The document provides guidelines for the PIEAS Physics Fellowship, including admission eligibility requirements, fields of study available, and details on the selection process and test pattern. The selection criteria is based 50% on marks in a test and 50% on an interview. The test includes sections on English, math, physics, and a physics subject portion, and evaluates knowledge up to the FSc and MSc level.

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Pieas Physics Guidelines

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PIEAS PHYSICS FELLOWSHIP GUIDELINES

By MALIK INAM (MS PHYSICS PIEAS)

Admission Eligibility: 2.5 CGPA in semester system or 60% in annual


marks

Fields at PIEAS : MS Physics , MS Medical Physics , MS Radiation


Physics , MS Nuclear Engineering, MS Cyber Security
Selection Criteria:
 Marks in Test : 50%
 Marks in Interview : 50%
TEST PATTERN

1. ENGLISH : 10 marks
2. MATH (Fsc+Bsc): 20 marks
3. Physics FSc : 20 marks
4. PHYSICS (BS/MSC) : 50 marks
TEST CONTENTS

GENERAL PORTION : 50 marks

ENGLISH: 10 marks
 parts of speech
 Comprehension
 Tenses
 Correction of sentences

BOOKS: HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH by wren and martin

MATH: 20 marks
FSC :

 Functions,domains,graphs,even/odd function,limits
 Differentiation and integration
 Analytic Geometry
 Vector analysis
 Permutation,Combination,Probability
 Systems of linear equations

BOOKS: FSC Text Books Part 1 and Part 2

BSC:

 Vector Spaces
 Fourier Series/Transform
 Laplace Transform
 Functions of two variables
 Maxima and minima ( Absolute, relative)
 Applications of maxima and minima
 Differential equations (LDE, Exact Eq, Homogeneous, non-homogeneous etc.)
 Initial and boundary value problems
 Modeling

BOOKS:

1. Advance Engineering mathematics by kreyszig.


2. Calculus by Thomas Finney
3. Linear Algebra by David C lay

Physics FSc: 20 marks


 Mechanics , waves, sound, heat, Electricity and magnetism
 mirrors/lenses.
 Nuclear Physics

 70% of this portion consists of numerical problems.

BOOKS:

1. Fsc Physics text books part 1 and part 2.


2. Matric part 2 for sound and mirror/ lenses
SUBJECT PORTION: 50 marks
1. Classical Mechanics 15% Approx
 Langrangian
 Hamiltonian
 Forces of constraints/degree of freedoms
 Newtonian mechanics
 Kepler laws

Books:

1. HRK physics volume 1 any edition.

2. Goldstein , Classical Mechanics (for Lagrange, Hamiltonian)

3, Servey , Physics for scientists and engineers.

2. Basic Quantum Mechanics: 25% approx


 Wave function
 Probability
 Expectation values
 Angular momentum
 Coupling of AM
 Uncertainty principle : Applications
 Particle in a box
 Wave-particle duality
 H- spectrum
 X-rays
 Photoelectric effect, Compton , pair production

Books: Concepts of modern Physics by Arthur Beiser.

3. Nuclear & particle Physics: 25% approx


 Elementary particles
 Standard model
 Basic forces of nature
 Nuclear structure ( Models)
 Nuclear reactions (Fission/Fusion)
 Radioactive decay and Half-life mean life
 Binding energy , mass defect
 Nuclear radius , nuclear density , nuclear cross section

Books: Concepts of modern Physics by Arthur Beiser.

4. Electrodynamics: 15% approx


 Gradient , divergence , curl
 E.field , E.potential , flux, gauss’s law ,energy stored in E
 Method of images
 Magnetic field , ampere law , faraday law , energy in B
 Maxwell equations , poynting vector
 EM waves

Books: Intro to Electrodynamics By griffiths.

5. Reletivistic Mechanics: 05% approx


 Relative motion
 Special theory of relativity : Consequences
 Muon decay problem
 Relativistic energy , momentum , speed , mass.

Books: Concepts of modern Physics by Arthur Beiser. ( Chapter 01)

6. Thermodynamics: 10% approx


 Heat and temperature
 Laws of thermodynamics
 Entropy
 Reversible and irreversible processes
 Specific heat

Books: 1. HRK physics volume 1 any edition.

2, Servey , Physics for scientists and engineers.

7. Solid State Physics: 5% approx


 Basic crystal structure
 Energy Band Theory
 Conductors, insulators, semiconductors
 Specific heats, Fermi model
 Debye model , Einstein model

Books: 1. HRK physics any edition.

2 Concepts of modern Physics by Arthur Beiser.

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