Detail Information about KEA (Karnataka Examinations Authority) has published notification 2026 for the recruitment of Assistant Professor (Physics) Exam. Those Candidates who are Interested to the following exam and completed all Eligibility Criteria can read the Notification & Apply Online. In this page we provide the Complete Syllabus of this Recruitment with Latest Update Exam Pattern and the Exam Date also.KEA Assistant Professor Syllabus 2026 : Overview
| Organization Name |
Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) |
| Post Name |
Assistant Professor |
| No. of Posts |
Notified Soon |
| Mode of Application |
Online |
| Category |
Syllabus and Exam Pattern |
| Job Location |
Karnataka |
| Official Site |
www.kea.kar.nic.in |
KEA Assistant Professor (Physics) Syllabus 2026
Paper-I: English :
I British Literature
• Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales
• Rise of the drama – Mystery, Miracle, Morality plays
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Eras [1558-1625]
Edmond Spenser’s Amoretti, Sonnets (1,3,22,67,68,74,75,79,81)
Sir Phillip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, Sonnets (6,7,14,23,24,31,64,92)
Elizabethan Theatre
Shakespeare – Tragedies, Historical plays, Comedies, Sonnets (3, 16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 30, 35, 42, 54, 65, 73, 80, 94, 116, 130)
Christopher Marlow – Dr. Faustus
Ben Jonson – Volpone
Francis Bacon – Essays
John Donne
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Caroline Period [1625—1660]
Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan
Milton – Paradise Lost & minor poems
The Neo—Classical Period [1660—1798]
The Restoration
John Dryden – Mac Flecknoe
John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
Congreve –The Way of the World
Sheridan – The Rivals
Augustan Age
Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock, An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Belinda’s Toilet
Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele – Essays
The Age of Sensibility
James Boswell—The Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Henry Fielding – The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Oliver Goldsmith—The Citizen of the World
Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Age of Transition
William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, A Poison Tree
19TH Century – Age of Romantics[1798—1837]
Socio cultural & intellectual contexts, Philosophy & Aesthetics of Romanticism
Wordsworth - Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Lucy poems, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Daffodils
S. T. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight
Lord Byron – Don Juan
P. B.Shelley – Ode to the Westwind, To a Skylark, The Cloud, Ozymandias, Adonais
John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn
Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice
Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication on Rights of a Woman
Victorian Age [1837—1900]
Religion, Science & Technology in the Victorian England. Victorian ethos, complacency, despondency, prudence
Alfred Lord Tennyson – Ulysses, Lotus Eaters, Break, Break, Break
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess, Andrea del Sarto
Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach, Culture and Anarchy – Sweetness and Light
G. M. Hopkins – The Wreck of the Deutschland, Sonnets
George Eliot – Silas Marner, Mill on the Floss
Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge, Jude the Obscure
Charles Dickens – Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Lamb – Essays
Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
Modern Age :
Socio-cultural and intellectual background of the 20th century
W. B.Yeats – A Prayer for My Daughter, The Second Coming, 1919, Byzantium poems, Leda and the Swan, Easter 1916
T. S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Journey of the Magi, Four Quartets
W. H. Auden – The Unknown Citizen, The Shield of Achilles, In Memory of W.B.Yeats
Wilfred Owen – Insensibility, Strange Meeting
Dylan Thomas, Ted Hues, Phillip Larkin, Sylvia Plath
D. H. Lawrence – Women in Love, Sons and Lovers
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
James Joyce – Ulysses
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
T. S. Eliot – Family Reunion, Murder in the Cathedral
G. B. Shaw – Major Barbara, The Apple Cart
John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party
John Galsworthy – Loyalties
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
II Indian Writing in English :
History, Later History and debates of IEL
Poems
• Sri Aurobindo – Last poems
• Toru Dutt –Our Casuarina Tree, Jogadhya Uma, Laxman, Seetha
• Rabindranath Tagore – Gitanjali
• Sarojini Naidu – Sins of Love, Coromandel Fishers
• A. K. Ramanujan – Love Poem for a Wife, Obituary, River, Small scale Reflections on a Great House
• Nissim Ezekial – Background, Casually; A Very Indian Poem in Indian English, Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa.T.S., Enterprise, Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher
• Kamala Das – An Introduction, The Old Playhouse
• Jayanta Mahapatra - Hunger, Grandfather, Dhauli
• Arun Kolatkar - Jejuri poems
• Eunice D Souza – Women in Dutch Paintings, Feeding the Poor
Fiction :
• Rabindranath Tagore – The Home and the World
• Raja Rao – Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope
• R. K. Narayan – The Guide, The Financial Expert, The Man-Eater of Algoid
• Mulch Raj Anand – The Untouchable, Coolie
• Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land
• Arundathi Roy – The God of Small Things
• Shashi Deshpande - A Matter of Time
• Amrita Preetam – Pinjar
• Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children
Prose :
• M. K.Gandhi – My Experiments with Truth
• Nirad Chaudhuri – The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Drama :
• Rabindranath Tagore - Red Oleanders
• Girish Karnad – Hayavadana, Tughlaq
• Mahesh Dattani – Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Mango Souffle
III American Literature :
• Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Harlem Renaissance, Notions of American culture and
American Dream, Civil Rights Movement
• Life of Frederick Douglass
• Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
• Herman Melville – Moby Dick
• Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn
• Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea
• John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath
• J. D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
• Saul Bellow – Herzog
• Emily Dickinson – Because I Couldn’t Stop for Death, The Soul Selects Her Own Society
• Walt Whitman – O Captain! My Captain! , Brahma, I Sing the Body Electric
• Robert Frost – Mending Wall, Birches, Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Wallace Stevens – The Emperor of Ice Cream, A Jar in Tennessee, Of Modern Poetry
• Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman, All My Sons
• Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
• Eugene O’Neill – Long Day’s Journey into Night, Desire Under the Elms, The Hairy Ape
• Edward Albee – The Zoo Story, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Henry David Thoreau – Walden, Civil Disobedience
• Emerson – The American Scholar, Nature
• James Baldwin – Collected Essays
• Toni Morrison – Beloved, The Bluest Eyes
• Joseph Heller – Catch 22
• Langston Hughes—The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The Negro Mother, As I grew older
• Sylvia Plath—Lady Lazarus, Daddy, Mirror
IV New Literatures :
African
• Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
• Wole Soyinka – The Interpreters
• Gabriel Okara – Piano and Drums, You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed
Australian
• A. D. Hope – Australia,The Death of the Bird.
• Judith Wright – Half a Lifetime
• Patrick White – Voss, A Fringe of Leaves, The Tree of Man
Canadian
• Margaret Atwood – Surfacing
• A. J. M. Smith – The Lonely Land West Indies
• V. S. Naipaul – A House for Mr. Biswas
• Derek Walcott – A Far Cry from Africa, Almond Trees, Ruins of a Great House.
V Gender Studies :
Key Concepts – Gender, sexuality, sexual differences, The other body, Desire,
Patriarchy, Gender stereotypes, Language and representation, Gyno-criticism, Gender and language
• Virginia Woolf—A Room of One’s Own
• Simone de Beauvoir – Introduction to The Second Sex
• Kate Millet – Sexual Politics
• Helene Cixous—The Laugh of the Medusa
• Susie Tharu & Tejaswini Niranjana – Problems for a contemporary theory of genders
• Shashi Deshpande—The Stone Woman
• Ismat Chugtai—The Veil, The Quilt
• Maha Shwetha Devi—Draupadi
• Ambai —A Kitchen in the Corner of the House
• Vaidehi—Akku
• Jaya Prabha—Chupulu
• Anupama Niranjana—The Incident and After
VI Literary Theory and Criticism :-
Classical Texts :
• Plato – The Republic
• Aristotle – The Poetics
• Longinus – On the Sublime
• Phillip Sidney – An Apology for Poetry
• Samuel Johnson – Preface to Shakespeare
• John Dryden – An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Modern Texts :
• William Wordsworth – Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• Coleridge - Biographia Literaria
• Matthew Arnold – The Function of Criticism
• P. B.Shelley – A Defence of Poetry, Study of Poetry
• Eliot – Tradition and Individual Talent
• Cleanth Brooks – Language of Paradox
• F. R. Leavis – Revaluation, The Great Tradition
• Basic concepts of Structuralism, Post—Structuralism and Deconstruction,
Postmodernism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Marxist criticism, New historicism and
cultural materialism, Postcolonial criticism, Stylistics, Narratology, and
Ecocriticism
VII Modern Linguistics
• Human language and other systems of communication
• Language variation – dialect and idiolect and style
• Speech and Writing
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax .
Paper III: General Knowledge :
1. Important Days
2. Current Affairs – National and International
3. Abbreviations
4. General Policy
5. Science and Technology
6. Science – Inventions & Discoveries
7. Capitals of India
8. Indian Economy
9. Administrative Structure: bureaucracy, the structure of administration
10. Panchayati Raj Institutions and Voluntary Agencies: Functions of government and non-
11. government organizations for rural development
12. Agricultural Extension Services
13. Emergence and Growth of Panchayati Raj Institutions in India
14. People and Panchayati Raj
15. Financial Organizations in Panchayati Raj Institutions
16. Concept of development
17. Indicators of development
18. The conceptual framework, Strategies
19. Rural development in India
20. A retrospective
21. Policies, Programs
22. Techniques for planning
23. Detail steps in district and block level planning
24. Area Development Planning
25. Definition, purpose, Area development plans
26. Budget and Five Year Plans
27. Countries and Capitals
28. Indian History
29. Books and Authors
30. Awards and Honors
31. International and National Organizations
32. Indian National Movement
33. Sports
Paper IV: Physics :-
1) MECHANICS AND KINEMATICS :
Vector algebra, Newton’s laws of motion, frames of reference, Coriolis force,rigid body dynamics- moment of inertia, elasticity.Conservation laws.Gravitation, planetory motion, artificial satellites.Fluid dynamics- surface tension, viscosity, osmosis, its applications.
2) HEAT, THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS :
Gas laws, ideal gas, real gas, VanderWaal’s equations, low temperaturephysics, Diffusion.Thermal conductivity.Laws of Thermodynamics and consequences : heat engnes, carnot’s cycle,entropy. Thermodynamic potentials, Enthalpy, Maxwell relations, chemicalpotential, phase equilibria, phase space, micro and macro states Microcanonical, canonical and grand canonical ensembles and partitionfunctions: Free energy and conection with Thermodynamic quantities: Firstand second order phase transition, Maxwell-Boltzmann, Bose Einstein andFermi Dirac statistics, energy distribution.Black Body radiation And Planck’s Distribution law: and consequences:Bose Einstein condensation, random walk and Brownian motion
3) WAVES AND OSCILLATIONS :
Simple Harmonic Motion, Types of waves and characteristics, intensity ofwaves, interference, diffraction, Doppler effect.Acoustics.
4) OPTICS:
Geometric Optics- Fermat’s Principle, reflection, refraction, dispersion,measurement of speed of light.Physical Optics-Theory of light, Huygen’s principle,reflection, refraction,Interference, diffraction, polarisation.
5) ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY :
Electrostatics: Gauss Law and its applications; Laplace and Poisson equations, effects of electric current, boundary value problems electromagnetic induction, electrostaticinduction ;Displacement current, Maxwell’s equations in free space and linear isotropic media; boundary conditions on fields at interfaces; Scalar and vector potentials: Guage invariance; Electromagnetic waves in free space, dielectrics and conductors,- Lorentz invariance of Maxwell’s equations, Poynting vector. Dynamics of charged particles in static and uniform electromagnetic fields, radiation from moving charges, dipoles.
6) ELECTRONICS :
Semiconductor devices, Amplifiers, oscillators. Optoelectronics, generators and detectors,Cathode ray oscilloscope. Operational amplifiers and their applications: Digital electronics and applications ,logic gates; A/D and D/A converters . Microprocessor and microcontroller basics, memory devices.Transducers. Basics of signals and communication.
7) ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS :
Quantum states of an electron in an atom; Stern-Gerlachexperiment;atomic and molecular spectra ; relativistic corrections for energy levels of hydrogen atom; hyperfine structure and isotopic shift; width of spectral lines; LS and JJ coupling; Zeeman, Paschen Back and Stark effect; electron spin resonance; Nuclearmagnetic resonance. Raman spectra of diatomic molecules; Einstein A & B coefficients.Lasers.
8) QUANTUM MECHANICS :
Wave- particle duality, wave functions, Heisenberg uncertainty principle;matrix representation; dirac’s bra &ket notation; Schroedinger equation,wave function, particle in a box, oscillator, rotator, quantum mechanicaltunneling, addition of angular momentum. Hydrogen atom, Helium atom;perturbation theory, WKB approximation, Born approximation; Pauli’sexclusion principle, relativistic quantum mechanics.
9) NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS :
Nuclear properties, mass defect, Binding energy, semi-empirical massformula Liquid drop model- merits & demerits, Nuclear forces,Yukawa’stheory of nuclear forces.Nuclear Reactions: Nuclearfission, nuclear reactor,nuclear fusion, Nuclear Detectors.Radioactivity, Theory of alpha decay, Fermi’s theory of beta decay, Beta rayspectra. K- electron capture. Internal conversion, Gamma rayspectrum,Multipolarity of gamma rays, Selection rules, Internal conversion,Elementary Particle Physics,Charged weak interactions of quarks, CPTtheorem
10) CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS :
Crystalline state- primitive and non- primitive lattice cell-fundamentalBravais lattices:, Miller indices. Simple crystal structures-NaCl, CsCl, HCP,diamond, ZnS and Wurtzite,Point defects ,Free electron theory of metalsFermi energy. Average energy of electrons, Electronic specificheat.Thermionic emission from metals.Electrical conductivity. Drift velocityand relaxation time. Thermal conductivity.Wiedemann-Franz law, Bandtheory of solids: Bloch theorem Kronig Penny model-E-K curves-number ofallowed states in bands-motion of electrons in 1-d-effective mass-concept ofhole-freeness factor-classification of solids.Concept of holes, expression for carrier concentration)-electricalconductivity-mobility and their temperature dependence-Hall effect insemiconductors,Para, dia&ferro magnetism. Superconductivity-type I& II superconductors, Meissner effect- thermodynamic properties-heat capacity-thermal conductivity. . Josephson junctions BCS theory, high temperature superconductors, Applications, Xdiffraction in crystals. Nano & Smart Materials:- Properties –examples and applications Liquid crystals: Classification, Orientational order and its determination in the case of nematic liquid crystals and applications.
11) ASTROPHYSICS :
Basic concepts , Surface or effective temperature and color of a star, Spectralclassification of stars and their chemical composition: Mass - luminosityrelationship and expression for life-time of a star. Hertzsprung - Russell (HR)diagram: Evolution of a star, Supernova explosion. Formation of a pulsar orneutron star and blackhole , Gravitational potential energy or self-energy of astar.
12) CLASSICAL MECHANICS :
Newton’s laws; phase- space dynamics, stability analysis, central-forcemotion, two-body collisions, scattering in laboratory and centre of massframes;Variational principle, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms and equationsof motion; Poisson brackets and canonicaltransformations.Symmetryinvarianc and conversation laws,Cycliccoordinates, periodic motions small oscillations and normal modesSpecial theory of relativity, relativistic kinematics and mass-energyequivalence.
13) MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS :
Linear algebra, Elements of tensors, linear differential equations, special functions- Hermite, Bessel, Laguerre, Legendre. Generation of functions, Fourier series, Laplace transform. Elements of complex analysis, group theory.Green’s function, integral equations,Dirac delta function. Numerical techniques, C programming, solution of transcendental equations, Newton-Raphons, RungeKutta method, finite difference methods.
KEA Assistant Professor (Physics) Exam Pattern 2026
Note : Compulsory Part – B shall be negative marking for each wrong answer (with deductions of 0.25 mark for one mark questions, and 0.50 mark for 2 marks questions)
| S.No |
Subject |
No.of Question |
Marks |
Duration |
| Paper 1 (Descriptive) |
Kannada |
- |
100 |
2 Hour |
| Paper 2 (Descriptive) |
English |
- |
100 |
2 Hour |
| Paper 3 (MCQ) |
General Knowledge |
50 |
50 |
2 Hour |
| Paper 4 (MCQ) |
Optional Subject (Physics) |
125 |
250 |
3 Hour |
Exam Date : Notified Soon
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Last Date of Application Form : Notified Soon
