UPSC SCRA Syllabus

Can you provide me syllabus of Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) Exam conducted by Union Public Service Commission?

[Arvind Kumar]

You are looking for syllabus of Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) Exam conducted by Union Public Service Commission. Here I am providing that:

Physics
Length measurements using vernier, screw gauge, spherometer and optical lever.
Measurement of time and mass
Straight line motion and relationships among displacement, velocity and acceleration
Newton's Laws of Motion, Momentum, impulse, work, energy and power Coefficient of friction
Equilibrium of bodies under action of forces, Moment of a force, couple Newton’s Law
of Gravitation. Escape velocity, Acceleration due to gravity
Mass and Weight; Centre of gravity, Uniform circular motion, centripetal force, simple
Harmonic motion, Simple pendulum
Pressure in a fluid and its variation with depth, Pascal’s Law, Principle of Archimedes
Floating bodies, Atmospheric pressure and its measurement
Temperature and its measurement. Thermal expansion, Gas laws and absolute temperature
Specific heat, latent heats and their measurement. Specific heat of gases
Mechanical equivalent of heat. Internal energy and First law of thermodynamics, Isothermal
and adiabatic changes. Transmission of heat; thermal conductivity
Wave motion; Longitudinal and transverse waves. Progressive and stationary waves,
Velocity of sound in gas and its dependence on various factors, Resonance phenomena
(air columns and strings)
Reflection and refraction of light, Image formation by curved mirrors and lenses, Microscopes
and telescopes. Defects of vision
Prisms, deviation and dispersion, Minimum deviation, Visible spectrum
Field due to a bar magnet, Magnetic moment, Elements of Earth’s magnetic field, Magnetometers
Dia, para and ferromagnetism
Electric charge, electric field and potential, Coulomb’s Law
Electric current; electric cells, e.m.f. resistance, ammeters and voltmeters, Ohm’s law;
resistances in series and parallel, specific resistance and conductivity. Heating effect of
current.
Wheatstone’s bridge, Potentiometer.
Magnetic effect of current; straight wire, coil and solenoid electromagnet; electric bell
Force on a current-carrying conductor in magnetic field; moving coil galvanometers;
conversion to ammeter or voltmeter.
Chemical effects of current; Primary and storage cells and their functioning, Laws of
electrolysis
Electromagnetic induction; Simple A.C. and D.C. generators, Transformers, Induction
coil,
Cathode rays, discovery of the electron, Bohr model of the atom. Diode and its use as a
rectifier

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