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General and technical cadres · 235 pages

Compulsory subjects and post-related subjects for professional and technical cadres. Confirm the applicable subject code in the recruitment notice.

Published by BPSC. Collected 2026-11-14. Confirm the edition and subject against your recruitment notice before studying.

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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION     
       
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APPLIED PHYSICS 
(POST RELATED) 
Subject Code: 521 
Total Marks-200 
 
Part-I 
Marks: 100 
 
Electrostatics : Coulomb‘s law, The electric field, Dipole in an electric field, Potential and field 
strength, Capacitance, Dielectric, Gauss‘s law. 
Steady Current : Ohm‘s law, Heating effect of current, Electric power and energy, Kirchoff‘s law, 
Thevenin‘s theorem, Norton‘s theorem, Superposition theorem. 
Magnetic effect : Ampere‘s law, Forces between currents, Biot-Savart law of current and 
Faraday‘s law, Lenz‘s law, Self and mutual inductance. 
Electromagnetic 
Induction 
: L.R circuits. 
Alternating  : Generation of alternating E.M.F. Impedances in A.C. circuits. 
Current  A.C. power, Resonance circuits, D.C. and A.C. generators and motors, 
Measuring instruments.  
Electron 
Emission and 
Electron 
Ballistics 
: Work function, Thermionic emission, Field emission, Secondary emission, 
Photoelectric effect and emission, TV picture tube, Electrostatic and 
Magnetostatic deflection, CRT, Electron optics and Electron microscopy. 
Physical 
Electronics 
: Electron theory of metals, Fermi Dirac distribution function, Fermi level, Band 
theory of solids, intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Hall effect. 
Electronic 
Devices 
: Diode, BJT, SCR, JFET, MOSFET, LED, LCD, Solar cell, LASER. 
Rectifier circuits : P-N junction diode, Load line of a diode circuit, Half wave and Full wave 
rectifier, Bridge rectifier Filters, Zener diode and voltage regulation. 
 
APPLIED PHYSICS 
Part-II 
Marks: 100 
 
Transistor 
Equivalent 
Circuit 
: A.C equivalent circuit with Y.Z and H parameters for CB, CE and CC 
Configuration. Small signal analysis of a transistor amplifier using H parameter 
at low frequency, small signal JFET parameters. 
Transistor 
Amplifier 
Circuits 
: Different methods of transistor biasing, D.C and A.C operating characteristics, 
Amplifying action of a transistor, Classification of amplifiers, Tuned amplifier, 
Power amplifier, Negative feedback amplifier. 
Oscillator 
Circuits 
: Principle of positive feedback, Tuned collector oscillator, Hartley oscillator, 
Phase shift oscillator, negative resistance oscillator, Crystal oscillator, 
Frequency stability. 
Pulse and 
Switching circuits 
: Wave shaping, Clipping and Clamping circuits, Astable, Monostable and 
Bistable multivibrators. Schmitt trigger, Blocking oscillator, Voltage time base 
generators. 
Digital Circuits : Logic gates, Combination logic circuit design, Clock signal and clocked Flip-
Flops, Synchronous and asynchronous counter design, Half adder, Full adder, 
Digital to Analog and Analog to Digital converter.