psc.ap.gov.in Technical Assistant Geophysics Exam Syllabus : Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission
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Designation : Technical Assistants Geophysics
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Technical Assistants Geophysics Exam Syllabus :
Paper-I :
General Studies & Mental Ability
1. Events of national and international importance.
2. Current affairs- international, national and regional.
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3. Basics of General Science and their relevance to the day to day life. Current developments in science, technology and information technology
4. History of Modern India with emphases upon Indian national movement.
5. Economic development in India since independence.
6. Logical reasoning, analytical ability and data interpretation.
7. Basic things about Disaster management (CBSE-VIII & IX Standard).
8. Geography of India with focus on A.P
9. Indian Constitution and Polity.
10. Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection
11. Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh and its Administrative, Economic, Social,Cultural, Political, and legal implications/problems, including
a). Loss of capital city, challenges in building new capital and it’s financial implications.
b). Division and rebuilding of common Institutions.
c). Division of employees, their relocation and nativity issues.
d). Effect of bifurcation on commerce and entrepreneurs.
e). Implications to financial resources of state government.
f). Task of post-bifurcation infrastructure development and opportunities for investments.
g). Socioeconomic, cultural and demographic impact of bifurcation.
h). Impact of bifurcation on river water sharing and consequential issues.
i). AP REORGANISATION ACT, 2014 on AP and the arbitrariness of certain provisions.
Paper-2 : Geophysics
Basics : Occurrence of water in different forms, water cycle and water balance and factors contributing to the distortion of water balance.
Geo-Hydrology : Concepts of Geo-Hydrology and Hydro-Geology, Ground Water Aquifers – Definition of acquifer, aquiclude, aquited and aquifuge, concepts of confined, unconfined and leaky aquifers – Water bearing properties of aquifers – Storage properties – Definition of porosity, specific yield, specific retention factors influencing porosity of rocks – Determining porosity of rocks in field and in laboratory.
Definition of permeability, transmissivity and storage coefficients – Ground Water Movement – Darcy’s Law, distribution and concurrence of ground water. Dependency of ground water quality and yield on the recharge, Lithology and structural features.
Ground water in hard rock, soft rock and coastal aquifers – Application of geological, geochemical and remote sensing methods in ground water exploration.
Principles Of Geophysical Prospecting Of Ground Water : Physical properties of rocks and ground water – Electrical resistivity, polarisability, dielectric permeability, thermal conductivity, density, magnetic susceptibility, elastic modulus and wave velocities in different media.
Effect of porosity, mineral composition grain size, packing, temperature and pressure conditions water content, salinity etc., of the rocks and saturating fluids on the physical properties of rocks and Electrical resistivity method as employed in ground water problems.
Various electrode configurations their applications and merits and demerits – VES and profiling methods – Interpretation – Tracing leteral and vertical boundaries of strata.
Determining hydro geological properties of strata from electrical resistivity method – Principles and application of S.P., I.P. and E M methods in solving ground water problems especially in tracing the fracture and joint pattern of rocks.
Electromagnetic frequency sounding and applications – Seismic prospecting methods – Reflection and Refraction and Interpretation of seismic data in ground water problems – Gravity and magnetic methods – their role in ground water exploration, Geothermal methods – principle and application in solving ground water problems – Remote sensing and Airborne geophysical methods for assessing ground water potentialities on regional basis.
Geophysical Well – Logging Methods : Consideration and specification for solving ground water problems.
Principles and role of resistivity, S.P. Nuclear and thermal logging methods. Sonic, density and magnetic susceptibility logging for determining formation characters – Geophysical methods in estimating aquifer and reservoir conditions.
Application Of Geophysical Methods For Solving Hydrogeological Problems In :
(i) Soft Rock areas – Sedimentary and alluvial
(ii) Hard Rock Areas – Granites, metamorphics etc
(iii) Karst areas
(iv) Coastal areas – Salt water intrusion in fresh water aquifers and their boundary determination
(v) Prediction of hydraulic properties of granular aquifers
(vi) Tracing buried river valleys
(vii) Ground Water reservoir studies
(viii) Studying valley fill areas.