Science & Technology for Civil Services Examination
By: Singh, Ashok Kumar.
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BookPublisher: New Delhi McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd, 2016Description: 646.ISBN: 978-0-07-065548-5.Subject(s): Science | TechnologyDDC classification: 620 Summary: Science and Technology is emerging as a major section of the General Studies syllabus in the UPSC and state civil service examinations. Over the years, this section has undergone substantial changes and has become a lot more difficult for students to prepare. Questions have become even more sophistical requiring a greater breadth and depth of knowledge. This comprehensive book on science and technology takes an integrated view of the topic in the context of the syllabi for the civil services examinations. Details have been provided for most of the contemporary technology areas as well as several emerging areas like photonics. Institutional details in the field of Indian Science have been included at the appropriate level.
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PART I: GENERAL ASPECT
1. Role of Science and Technology in India
2. Science and Technology in India
3. Institutional Structure for Science and Technology in India
4. Science and Technology Education and Research in India
PART II: ENERGY
5. Energy Sector and Policy
6. Fossil Energy Resources
7. Electric Power
8. Non-Conventional Sources of Energy
9. Energy Conservation
PART III: NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY
10.Nuclear Energy
11.Nuclear Fusion
12.Non-Energy Aspects of Nuclear Technology
13.India's Nuclear Program
PART IV: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
14.Computer Technologies
15.Computer Software
16.Computer Networks
17.Security Issues in IT
18.Supercomputer Technology
19.Recent Advances in IT
20.IT Industry in India
21.IT and Government in India
22.Communication Technology
23.Wireless Communication
24.Telecommunications in India
25.Television and Entertainment Technologies
PART VI: SPACE
26.Space Technology
27.Space Programme in India
PART VII: MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
28.Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies
29.Superconductivity
30.Laser and Photonics
PART VIII: ENVIRONMENT
31.Global Environmental Issues
32.Environment and India
33.Earth Sciences in India
34.Meteorological Science
PART IX: DEFENCE
35.Nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction
36.Defence Technology in India
PART X: BIOTECHNOLOGY
37.Biotechnology
38.Applications of Biotechnology
39.Biotechnology in India
Science and Technology is emerging as a major section of the General Studies syllabus in the UPSC and state civil service examinations. Over the years, this section has undergone substantial changes and has become a lot more difficult for students to prepare. Questions have become even more sophistical requiring a greater breadth and depth of knowledge. This comprehensive book on science and technology takes an integrated view of the topic in the context of the syllabi for the civil services examinations. Details have been provided for most of the contemporary technology areas as well as several emerging areas like photonics. Institutional details in the field of Indian Science have been included at the appropriate level.
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