Assistantship Examination Announcement
Eastern Mediterranean University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Physics
The Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University,
will conduct the Research Assistantship Examination in two stages:
a written examination and a tutor/laboratory assistantship performance examination.
Written Examination
Date: September 14, 2026, Monday
Time: 10:30 a.m. (Cyprus Time)
Venue: General Physics II Laboratory
Tutor & Laboratory Assistantship Performance Examination
Date: September 15, 2026, Tuesday
Time: 10:30 a.m. (Cyprus Time)
Venue: General Physics I & II Laboratories
Scope: Candidates are responsible for any experiment previously conducted
in the General Physics Laboratories.
Eligibility
Applicants must be residing in North Cyprus at the time of the examination.
Exam Subjects
Mechanics and Thermodynamics
- Physics and Measurement
- Motion in One Dimension
- Vectors
- Motion in Two Dimensions
- The Laws of Motion
- Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton's Laws
- Energy of a System
- Conservation of Energy
- Linear Momentum and Collisions
- Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis
- Angular Momentum
- Static Equilibrium
- Universal Gravitation
- Temperature
- The First Law of Thermodynamics
- The Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Electricity and Magnetism
- Electric Fields
- Continuous Charge Distributions and Gauss's Law
- Electric Potential
- Magnetic Fields
- Sources of the Magnetic Field
- Faraday's Law
Reference Book
Raymond A. Serway and John W. Jewett,
Physics for Scientists and Engineers.
Sample Previous Exam Problems
Candidates may review sample problems from the following EMU OpenCourseWare pages:
Important
Candidates are advised to review the listed subjects thoroughly and to be prepared for
conceptual questions, mathematical problem solving, and laboratory-based applications.
Please arrive at the examination venue on time.
