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msc physics entrance syllabus


avitesh 6th Mar, 2019
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Kajal tomar 6th Mar, 2019
Hello aspirant,

Syllabus can very a bit but mostly these topics you have to study for msc physics entance:

Main topics in  M.Sc Physics Entrance Exam Syllabus



  • Electricity and Magnetism


  • Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics


  • Oscillations, Waves and Optics


  • Mechanics and General Properties of Matter


  • Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics


  • Mathematical Methods


  • Modern Physics


  • Detailed Syllabus




Electricity and Magnetism



  • Alternating currents


  • Amperes law


  • Biot-Savart law


  • Capacitors


  • Conductors


  • Coulombs law


  • Dielectric polarization


  • Dielectrics


  • Displacement current


  • Electric field and potential


  • Electrostatic boundary conditions


  • Electrostatic energy


  • Faradays law of electromagnetic induction


  • Gausss law


  • Lorentz Force and motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields


  • Maxwells equations and plane electromagnetic waves


  • Poyntings theorem


  • Reflection and refraction at a dielectric interface


  • Self and mutual inductance


  • Simple DC and AC circuits with R, L and C components


  • Solution of Laplaces equation for simple cases


  • Transmission and reflection coefficients


  • Volume and surface charges




Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics



  • Reversible, irreversible and quasi-static processes


  • Carnot cycle


  • Elements of Kinetic theory of gases


  • First law and its consequences


  • Ideal gas


  • Isothermal and adiabatic processes


  • Laws of thermodynamics


  • Maxwells thermodynamic relations and simple applications


  • Mean free path


  • Phase transitions and Clausius-Clapeyron equation


  • Second law and entropy


  • Specific heat of Mono-, di- and tri-atomic gases


  • Thermodynamic potentials and their applications


  • Van-der-Waals gas and equation of state


  • Velocity distribution and Equipartition of energy


  • Zeroeth law and concept of thermal equilibrium




Oscillations, Waves and Optics



  • Damped and forced oscillators


  • Differential equation for simple harmonic oscillator and its general solution


  • Diffraction gratings


  • Doppler Effect


  • Double refraction and optical rotation


  • Energy density and energy transmission in waves


  • Fermats Principle


  • Fraunhofer diffraction


  • General theory of image formation


  • Group velocity and phase velocity


  • Interference of light, optical path retardation


  • Linear, circular and elliptic polarization


  • Rayleigh criterion and resolving power


  • Resonance


  • Sound waves in media


  • Superposition of two or more simple harmonic oscillators


  • Thick lens, thin lens and lens combinations


  • Traveling and standing waves in one-dimension


  • Wave equation




Mechanics and General Properties of Matter



  • Bernoullis theorem


  • Capillarity


  • Centre of mass


  • Centrifugal and Coriolis forces


  • Conservation of energy


  • Conservation of linear and angular momentum


  • Conservative and non-conservative forces


  • Elastic and inelastic collisions


  • Elasticity


  • Equation of continuity


  • Equation of motion of the CM


  • Eulers equation


  • Gravitational Law and field


  • Hookes law and elastic constants of isotropic solid


  • Keplers laws


  • Kinematics of moving fluids


  • Moments of Inertia and products of Inertia


  • Motion under a central force


  • Newtons laws of motion and applications


  • Principal moments and axes


  • Rigid body motion, fixed axis rotations


  • Rotation and translation


  • Stress energy


  • Surface tension and surface energy


  • System of particles


  • Uniformly rotating frame


  • Variable mass systems


  • Velocity and acceleration in Cartesian, polar and cylindrical coordinate systems


  • Viscous fluids




Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics



  • Crystal structure


  • Bravais lattices and basis


  • Miller indices


  • X-ray diffraction and Braggs law


  • Einstein and Debye theory of specific heat


  • Free electron theory of metals


  • Fermi energy and density of states


  • Origin of energy bands


  • Concept of holes and effective mass


  • Elementary ideas about dia-, para- and ferromagnetism


  • Langevins theory of paramagnetism


  • Curies law


  • Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors


  • Fermi level


  • OR, AND, NOR and NAND gates


  • Transistors


  • P-N junctions


  • Amplifier circuits with transistors


  • Transistor circuits in CB, CE, CC modes


  • Operational amplifiers




Mathematical Methods



  • Algebra of complex numbers


  • Calculus of single and multiple variables


  • Divergence theorem


  • First and linear second order differential equations


  • Fourier series


  • Greens theorem


  • Jacobian, imperfect and perfect differentials


  • Matrices and determinants


  • Multiple integrals


  • Partial derivatives


  • Stokes theorem


  • Taylor expansion


  • Vector algebra


  • Vector Calculus




Modern Physics



  • Blackbody radiation


  • Bohrs atomic model and X-rays


  • Compton Effect


  • Inertial frames and Galilean invariance


  • Length contraction and time dilation


  • Lorentz transformations


  • Mass energy equivalence


  • Photoelectric effect


  • Postulates of special relativity


  • Relativistic velocity addition theorem


  • Uncertainty principle


  • Wave-particle duality


  • Schrdinger equation and its solution for one, two and three dimensional boxes


  • Reflection and transmission at a step potential, tunnelling through a barrier


  • Pauli Exclusion Principle


  • Maxwell-Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics


  • Structure of atomic nucleus, mass and binding energy


  • Radioactivity and its applications


  • Laws of radioactive decay


  • Fission and fusion


Hope it helps ,thank you.






























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