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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; α, β and γ 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.

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