Physics
Syllabus
General: Units
and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant
figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical
quantities pertaining to the following experiments: Experiments based
on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), Determination
of g using simple pendulum, Young’s modulus by Searle’s method,
Specific heat of a liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a concave
mirror and a convex lens using u-v method, Speed of sound using
resonance column, Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and
ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter
bridge and post office box.
Mechanics: Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative velocity.
Newton’s laws of
motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static
and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power;
Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.
Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.
Law of gravitation;
Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion
of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.
Rigid body, moment of
inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia
of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum;
Torque; Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies
with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings,
cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point
masses with rigid bodies.
Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.
Pressure in a fluid;
Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary
rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Stoke’s law;
Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity,
Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.
Wave motion (plane
waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves;
Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air
columns;Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in
sound).
Thermal physics:
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent
heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of
convection and radiation; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws;
Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and
diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of
gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its
applications (only for ideal gases); Blackbody radiation:
absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement
law, Stefan’s law.
Electricity and magnetism: Coulomb’s
law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a
system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform
electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field;
Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find
field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite
plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
Capacitance; Parallel
plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and
parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.
Electric current;
Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells;
Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.
Biot–Savart’s law and
Ampere’s law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire,
along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid;
Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform
magnetic field.
Magnetic moment of a
current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop;
Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.
Electromagnetic
induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR
and LC circuits with D.C. and A.C. sources.
Optics: Rectilinear
propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and
spherical surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation and
dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors
and thin lenses; Magnification.
Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.
Modern physics: Atomic
nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; Law of radioactive decay;
Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its
calculation; Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these
processes.
Photoelectric effect;
Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous
X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.
Syllabus may tend to change and THE EDU ZEAL is not responsible for such issues.
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