📌 Title: Read Carefully
🔍 Introduction: Why You Must Read This
If you are a first-year student at Gujarat Technological University (GTU), you’ve probably noticed a big change in the syllabus. Especially in Physics — GTU has recently merged Physics 1 and Physics 2 into one consolidated subject under the new 2024–25 curriculum. This change has left many students confused:
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Which old questions are still useful?
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Is the new syllabus completely different?
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How do I study smartly to score maximum marks?
Don’t worry. This blog post gives you the entire picture, based on deep analysis of old papers and matching it to the new syllabus.
📚 What Was the Old System?
Before 2024–25, GTU taught Physics in two separate parts:
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Physics 1: Focused on electronics, semiconductors, quantum theory, and material science.
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Physics 2: Covered elasticity, wave motion, sound, optics, and modern topics like LASERs.
Each had its own syllabus and exam papers (Winter and Summer for multiple years). But this approach made it hard to integrate concepts across units.
🔁 What Changed in the New Syllabus?
Now, GTU has introduced a unified Physics syllabus for Semester 2. This new structure combines essential topics from both Physics 1 & 2 while adding some fresh modern concepts like nanomaterials, quantum physics, and NDT.
So now we have six core units:
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Properties of Matter
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Waves, Motion & Acoustics
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Optics
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Quantum Physics
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LASER
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New Engineering Materials (including superconductors, semiconductors, nanotech)
✅ Comparative Analysis Table
| New Syllabus Topic | Subtopics (Brief) | Matching Topic(s) | Match Type | Found In |
Old Syllabus Module |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Properties of Matter | Stress, strain, Hooke’s law, bending, torsional pendulum, Young’s modulus | Properties of Matter | ✅ Full | Physics 2 | Module 1 |
| 2. Waves, Motion and Acoustics | SHM, resonance, damping, sound absorption, acoustics of buildings | Waves, Motion and Acoustics | ✅ Full | Physics 2 | Module 1 |
| 3. Optics | Interference (Young’s, Newton's Rings), diffraction, Michelson interferometer, anti-reflection coating, diffraction grating | ❌ Not covered in detail | ❌ None | - | - |
| 4. Quantum Physics | Planck’s law, de Broglie waves, Schrödinger equation, quantum tunneling, Heisenberg’s principle | ❌ Not covered | ❌ None | - | - |
| 5. Lasers | Properties of lasers, A & B coefficients, types, applications | Lasers | ✅ Full | Physics 2 | Module 5 |
| 6. New Engineering Materials | Semiconductors, superconductors, nanomaterials | Semiconductor Physics & Superconductivity | ⚠️ Partial | Physics 1 & 2 | Phy-1: Modules 1–2, 5 Phy-2: Module 4 |
❌ Topics in New Syllabus That Are Completely New
| New Topics | Not Found In |
|---|---|
| Optics (Newton’s Rings, Interference, Diffraction, etc.) | Physics 1 & 2 |
| Quantum Physics (Planck’s Law, Schrödinger Eq., etc.) | Physics 1 & 2 |
| Nanomaterials (CNT, Graphene, Synthesis Methods) | Physics 1 & 2 |
🧠 How I Researched This Content
Instead of guessing or blindly studying from textbooks, I did something smarter — I manually analyzed:
✅ The official new syllabus PDF
✅ Old Physics 1 & 2 GTU exam papers (Summer & Winter from 2019–2024)
✅ Marked and filtered questions unit-by-unit
✅ Classified them based on matching with the new syllabus
🧪 Classification Process
To ensure accuracy, I followed a multi-step filtering system:
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Topic Mapping: I matched each unit from the new syllabus with related content in Physics 1 & 2 syllabi.
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Question Matching: I checked all old exam papers and listed only those questions that align with the new syllabus content.
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Repetition Check: I checked which questions repeated (even with different wording). These are marked with ✅.
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Numerical Filtering: I also separated out all important numerical questions chapter-wise.
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Probability Rating: Based on frequency, I rated the chance of each topic appearing in Summer 2025.
📦 What You’ll Find in This Blog
✅ Full Chapter-Wise Question Bank
✅ Clearly Marked Repeated Questions (same answer, different wording)
✅ Important but Unique Questions (⭐ marked)
✅ Numerical Questions from Past Papers
✅ Estimated Topic-Wise Weightage for Summer 2025
✅ Topic Difficulty Levels
💡 Why You Should Trust This
This is not a random collection. It’s based on:
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✅ Official GTU data
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✅ 5+ years of paper analysis
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✅ New vs Old syllabus cross-mapping
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✅ Smart scoring strategies used by toppers
📚 New Syllabus Pdf
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