SSC Scientific Assistant (IMD) Exam Syllabus

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Indicative Syllabus (Part-I):
• General Intelligence & Reasoning: The Syllabus for General
Intelligence would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal
non type.
The test may include questions on analogies, similarities, differences,
space visualization, problem solving, analysis, judgement, decision
making, visual memory,
memory, discrimination, observation, relationship
concepts, arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification,
arithmetical number series etc. The test will also include questions
designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with abstract ideas and
symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computations and other
analytical functions.
• General Awareness: General, physical, geographical, topographical,
economic and climatic features of India. Current events. Matters of
everyday observation and experience
experience on scientific aspects and reasoning.
Basic topics of Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. History of India, its
cultural heritage, freedom movement, salient feature of the Constitution
of India. Economic and social aspect of the country and its people.
 • Quantitative Aptitude: The questions will be designed to test the ability
of appropriate use of numbers and number sense of the candidate. The
scope of the test will be computation of whole numbers, decimals,
fractions and relationships between numbers, Percentage,
Percentage, Ratio &
Proportion, Square roots, Averages, interest, Profit and Loss, Discount,
Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation, Time and Distance, Time
& Work, Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra & Elementary
Surds, Graphs of Linear Equations,
Equations, Triangle and its various kinds of
center, Congruence and similarity of triangles, Circle and its chords,
tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two
or more circles, Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons, Circle, Right
Rig
Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere,
Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with
triangular or square base, Trigonometric ratio, Degree and Radian
Measures, Standard Identities, Complementary angle, Heights Height and
Distances, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar diagram & Pie chart.
• English Language and Comprehension English grammar, Vocabulary,
Spellings, Synonyms and Antonyms, Comprehension, Correct and
incorrect usages, etc.
Indicative Syllabus (Part-II)
(Part
Physics:
• Mechanics: Units and dimensions, SI Units, Newton’s Laws of Motion,
conservation of linear and angular momentum, projectiles, rotational
motion, moment of inertia, rolling motion, Newton’s Law of gravitation,
Planetary motion, Kepler’s Laws of Planetary motion,
motion, artificial satellites,
Fluid motion, Bernoulli’s theorem, Surface tension, Viscosity, Elastic
Constants, bending of beams, torsion of cylindrical bodies, elementary
ideas of special theory of relativity.
• Thermal Physics, Radiation & Sound: Equations off state, Ideal and real
gases, Dalton’s law of partial pressure. Thermometry, Zeroth, first and
second laws of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes,
Heat engines, Maxwell’s relation, Heat Capacities, Adiabatic and
Isothermal processes, Cla
Clausius-Clapeyron
Clapeyron relation, Thermal
Conductivity, Thermodynamic state variables, viz., Internal energy,
Entropy, Enthalpy, Helmholtz’s free energy function, Gibb’s free energy
 function. Vapour pressure, evaporation. Kinetic theory of gases,
Brownian motion, Maxwell’s velocity distribution, Equipartition of
energy, mean free path Vander walls’ equation of State, Liquefaction of
gases. Blackbody radiation, Kirchhoff’s law, Stephen’s law, Planck’s
law. Conduction in solids.
• Wave and Oscillations: Simple harmonic motion, wave motion,
superposition principle, Damped oscillations; forced oscillations and
resonance; simple oscillatory systems; vibrations of rods, strings and air
columns. Doppler effect; Ultrasonic; Sabine’s law of reverberation;
Recording and reproduction
reproduc of sound.
• Optics: Nature and propagation of light; Reflection & Refraction.
Interference; diffraction; polarization of light; simple interferometers.
Determination of wavelength of spectral lines, Electromagnetic spectrum.
Rayleigh scattering, Raman effect,
effect, Lenses and mirrors, combination of
coaxial thin lenses, spherical and chromatic aberrations, and their
corrections, Microscope, Telescope, Eyepieces and Photometry.
• Electricity and magnetism: Electric charges, fields and potentials,
Gauss’s theorem, Electrometers,
Electrometers, Dielectrics, Magnetic properties of
matter and their measurement, Elementary theory of dia, para and ferro- ferro
magnetism, Hysteresis, Electric current and their properties, Ohm’s law,
Galvanometers, Whetstone’s bridge and applications, Potentiometers,
Potentiome
Faraday’s law of E.M. induction, self and mutual inductance and their
applications, alternating currents, impedance and resonance, LCR circuit,
Dynamos, motors, transformers, Peltier-
Peltier Seebeck and Thomson effects
and applications, electrolysis, Hall effect,
effect, Hertz experiment and electro-
electro
magnetic waves, Particle accelerators and cyclotron.
• Atomic structure: Electron, measurement of ‘e’ and ‘e/m’, measurement
of Planck Constant, Rutherford-Bohr
Rutherford Atom, X-rays,
rays, Bragg’s law,
Moseley’s law, Radioactivity, Alpha-Beta-Gamma
Alpha Gamma emission, Elementary
ideas of nuclear structures, Fission, Fusion and Reactors, Louis de
Broglie waves and Electron Microscope.
• Electronics: Thermo-ionic
Thermo ionic emission, diodes and triodes, p-n p diodes and
transistors, simple rectifier, amplifier and oscillator
oscillator circuits.
• Calculus: Limits, Differential calculus (Differentiation), Integral calculus
(Integration), Multivariable calculus (Function theory), basic concepts of
 differential equation, viz., types, order, degree of differential equations.
Concept of Laplacian of a function.
• Linear algebra: Concept of a Vector Space, Basic concepts of linearly
dependent/independent vectors. Matrix and determinant. Concepts of
Eigen Value and Eigen Vectors.
• Vector Algebra & calculus: Zero Vector, Unit Vector, Position Vector,
Co-initial
initial Vector, Like and Unlike Vectors, Co-planar
Co planar Vector, Collinear
Vector, Equal Vector, Displacement Vector, Negative of a Vector, Vector
and Scalar Quantities, Vector Formulas, Components of a Vector, Vector
Addition and its Laws, Multiplication
Multiplication of Vectors and Scalar Quantity,
Vector Algebra, Dot Product of Two Vectors, Scalar Triple Product.
Basic concepts of Vector calculus, viz., Grads, Divergence, Curl, Stokes
theorem, Gauss divergence theorem.
Computer Science and Information Technology
Technolog
• Computer: History of Computers and their classification, Basic
Organization, Memory–RAM,
Memory RAM, ROM, EPROM, etc., Magnetic-Floppy,
Magnetic
Hard disks, CDROM, WORM etc., Concept of Virtual Memory and
Cache Memory, Number systems, binary, octal, Hexadecimal, Binary
Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication, Flotation, point representation
and arithmetic, Arithmetic through stacks.
• Operating systems: assemblers, elements of Assembly language
programming-Overview
Overview of the Assembly process, assembler for the PC,
Process synchronization,
synchronizati Memory Management – address Binding –
dynamic Loading and linking – overlays – logical and Physical address
space – Contiguous Allocation – internal & External Fragmentation. Non-
Non
Contiguous Allocation: Paging and Segmentation Schemes –
Implementation – Hardware Protection – Protection – sharing –
Fragmentation.
• Virtual Memory: Demand Paging – Page Replacement – Page
Replacement algorithms – Thrashing.
• File System: File Concepts – Assess Methods – Directory Structures –
Protection Consistency Semantics – Fileile system Structures – Allocation
Methods – Free Space Management.
 • I/O System: Overview – I/O hardware – Application I/O Interface –
Kernel I/O subsystem, Performance, Secondary Storage Structures,
Protection, Goals, Domain – Access matrix.
• Assemblers: Elements
Elements of assembly language programming – Overview
of the Assembly process – Design of a low-pass pass Assembler – a single
pass Assembler for the PC. The security Problem – Authentication –
Threats – Threat Monitoring – Encryption.
• Fundamentals of programming: Unix ix Programming, Programming in
FORTRAN, C, Object Oriented Programming in C++, programming in
Java, Basics of compilers.
• Database Management Systems: Systems: Advantages and components of a
Database Management Systems, Data Types, Data Dictionary, Query
Basics, Formss and Reports, Graphical objects, Error Handing,
Distributing Application, Data Storage Methods, Data Clustering and
Partitioning, Database Administration, Backup and Recovery, Security
and Privacy, Distributed Databases, Client/Server Databases, Object
Oriented
iented Databases, Integrated Applications, SQL, RDBMS.
• Internet Technology: Basics, topologies, layers, switching in the
networks, bridges, routers and gateways, types of networks, WWW.
Client/Server Applications, Internet Standards and specifications, ISP,
Broad Band Technologies, Protocols, web-servers,
web servers, browsers, and
security, fire walls, data security, HTML, dHTML, XML, Web designing.
• Fundamentals of Geographical Information System (GIS): GIS Data
and Spatial Models, Topology and Spatial Operations, Projections,
Projec Scale
and Coordinate Systems, Mapping, GIS Analysis, Cartography. Basics of
GIS application development.
Electronics & Telecommunication
Telecommunicatio
• Electronics: Conductors, Semi-conductors,
Semi conductors, Insulators, Magnetic, Passive
components, characteristics of Resistors,
Resistors, Capacitors and inductors.PN
Junction diode, forward and reverse bias characteristics and equivalent
circuits of diode, Zener diode and applications, clipping, clamping and
rectifier circuits using diodes.
• Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT),
(BJT Field Effect Transistor
ransistor (FET) and
an
MOSFET; Biasing and stability, Emitter follower and its applications
application
– Negatives Feedbac
eedback-Transistor
Transistor as a switch, Multistage Amplifiers,
Amplifiers
 Feedback, Oscillators, MultiMul vibrators, Voltage regulation, Power Powe
amplifiers.
• Introduction to Network
Network Theorems: Kirchoff’s laws, superposition,
superposition
Thevenin’s , Norton’s and Maximum power theorems.theorems
• Voltage and Current relationship in the resistance, inductance and an
capacitance. Concept
Concep of reactance, susceptance,, conductance,
impedance and admittance in series series and parallel RL, RC and RLC RL
circuits – Three phase supply-star
suppl star and delta connection diagrams
diagram –
Relation between line and phase & voltages and currents, series and an
parallel resonancee circuits – condition of resonance, resonance resonant
frequency, Q factor and bandwidth.
bandwidth
• Digital electronics:–Logic
electronics: Logic gates, Demorgan’s theorem, Boolean algebra,
frequency counters, flip-flops,
flip flops, shift resistors, Basic concepts of Digital to
Analog and Analog to Digital Converters, Timing circuits, Digital logic
circuits, systems & codes Combinational logic design.
• Telecommunication: Basic antenna principle rinciple directive gain, directivity,
radiation pattern, broad-side
broad and end-fire
fire array, Yagi antenna, Parabolic
antenna, Ground wave propagation, space waves, ionosphere propagation
and electromagnetic frequency spectrum, Modulation, types of
modulation, Amplitude
mplitude Modulation (AM), Modulation index, Power
relation in AM, Generation and Demodulation of AM
• Single Side Band (SSB): Power requirement in comparison with AM,
Advantages of SSB over AM. Concept of Balanced Modulator,
Generation of SSB, Pilot Carrier System. System. Independent Side System,
Vestigial Sideband Transmission.
• Frequency Modulation (FM): Definition of FM, Bandwidth, Noise
triangle, Pre-emphasis
emphasis and De-emphasis
De
• Pulse Modulation (PM): Definition of PM. Difference between AM and
FM. Radio receivers. Sampling
Sampling Theorem, PAM, PTM, PWM, PPM, pulse
code modulation, Quantization noise, commanding, PCM system,
differential PCM, Delta modulation.
• Multiplexing: FDM/TDM.
• Introduction of digital Communication: PSK, ASK, FSK, introduction to
fiber optics system, Propagation
Propagation of light in optical fiber and ray model.
• Propagation of signals at HF, VHF, UHF and microwave frequency and
satellite communications.