Physics

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GATAPU-General Aptitude Test for Admission to Polish Universities

The areas of Physics covered in the Aptitude Test :

Physics

Requirements on Physics:

Questions for the examination will come from these subtopics, but not all of the subtopics will necessarily be included in every examination:

  • Kinematics: vectors, vector algebra, components of vectors, coordinate systems, displacement, velocity, and acceleration. Motion in one dimension. Motion in two dimensions including projectile motion. Circular motion and rotation, uniform and accelerated circular motion, centripetal acceleration.
  • Dynamics - Newton's laws of motion: static equilibrium (first law); dynamics of a single particle (second law); systems of two or more bodies (third law); friction. Levers, pulleys, inclined planes.  Springs and Hooke’s law. Linear momentum, impulse and momentum, conservation of linear momentum, collisions. Rotational  dynamics – torque, angular momentum and its conservation, centrifugal force.
  • Work, energy, power: work and work-energy theorem, forces and potential energy, conservation of energy, power.
  • Oscillations: simple harmonic motion (dynamics and energy relationships), m mass on a spring. Simple pendulum and other oscillations.
  • Wave motion (including sound): traveling waves, standing waves, superposition, Doppler effect.
  • Gravitation: Newton's law of gravity.
  • Elementary fluid Mechanics: hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy.
  • Temperature and heat: heat transfer, phase transitions, calorimetry, mechanical equivalent of heat, thermal expansion.
  • Kinetic theory and thermodynamics: temperature, pressure, ideal gas law, first law of thermodynamics (including isoprocesses and pv diagrams).
  • Electrostatics: charge and Coulomb's law, electric field and electric potential (point charges), conductors and dielectrics, capacitors (including connections) .
    Electric circuits: current, resistance, power, steady-state direct current circuits with batteries and resistors only, series and parallel circuits.
  • Magnetic Fields: forces on moving charges in magnetic fields, forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields. Magnetic field of the current carrying wires.
  • Electromagnetism: electromagnetic induction (including Faraday's law and Lenz's law)
  • Geometrical optics: reflection and refraction, mirrors, lenses, simple optical systems.
  • Wave optics: interference and diffraction, dispersion of light.Atomic physics and quantum effects: structure of atom, Bohr model, atomic energy levels; nuclear reactions (including conservation of mass number and charge); wave-particle duality; photons, the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, x-rays, de Broglie’s postulate.

GATAPU 2008 in India

26-27 July 2008

GATAPU test shall be held in India by Polish Universities on 26th and 27th July.It shall be held simultaneously in four Indian Metropolitan cities

New Delhi

Kolkata

Mumbai

Chennai

Registration Centers

Approved Registration centers in India

GATAPU Application Form

Application form for GATAPU can be downloaded online

The Application form has to be dully filled. Approved Registration Centers shall need to check the Educational certificates before accepting and issuing the code number to the Candidates

Application forms without academical documents shall not be accepted.