Unit
1: General Physics

Units and Dimensions

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Units
and dimensions, dimensional analysis.

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Least
count and significant figures.

Experimental Analysis

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Methods
of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities

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pertaining
to the following experiments:

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Experiments
based on using Vernier callipers and screw gauge (micrometre).

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Determination
of g using the simple pendulum.

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Young’s
modulus by Searle’s method.

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Specific
heat of a liquid using calorimeter, the focal length of a concave mirror and
a convex lens using the u-v method.

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The
speed of sound using resonance column.

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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.

Unit
2 Mechanics

Kinematics

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Kinematics
in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles.

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Uniform
Circular motion, relative velocity.

Newton’s laws of motion

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Newton’s
laws of motion, Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference.

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Static
and dynamic friction, Kinetic and potential energy.

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Work
and power.

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Conservation
of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

Systems of particles

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Centre
of mass and its motion; Impulse.

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Elastic
and inelastic collisions.

Gravitation

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Laws
of gravitation.

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Gravitational
potential and field, acceleration due to gravity.

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The
motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits and escape velocity.

Inertia and Momentum

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Rigid
body, the moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, the
moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes.

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Angular
momentum, Torque, Conservation of angular momentum.

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Dynamics
of rigid bodies with a fixed axis of rotation.

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Rolling
without slipping of rings, cylinders, and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid
bodies.

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The
collision of point masses with rigid bodies.

Harmonic motions

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Linear
and angular simple harmonic motions.

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Hooke’s
law, Young’s modulus.

The pressure in a fluid

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Pascal’s
law; Buoyancy.

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Surface
energy and surface tension, capillary rise, viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation
excluded).

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Stoke’s
law, terminal velocity, Streamline flow, the equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s
theorem and its applications.

Waves

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Wave
motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition
of waves.

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Progressive
and stationary waves.

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The
vibration of strings and air columns, Resonance, Beats.

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The
speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

Thermal Physics

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Thermal
expansion of solids, liquids, and gases, calorimetry, latent heat.

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Heat
conduction in one dimension, elementary concepts of convection and radiation,
Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws.

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Specific
heats (Cv and Cp for monatomic and diatomic gases), Isothermal and adiabatic
processes, the bulk modulus of gases.

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Equivalence
of heat and work, First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for
ideal gases).

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Blackbody
radiation, absorptive and emissive powers, Kirchhoff’s law.

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Wien’s
displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Unit
3 Electricity and magnetism

Electric Fields

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Coulomb’s
law; Electric field and potential.

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The
electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical
dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field.

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Electric
field lines; Flux of the electric field.

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Gauss’s
law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field due to the infinitely
long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly
charged thin spherical shell.

Capacitance

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Capacitance,
Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics.

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Capacitors
in series and parallel, Energy stored in a capacitor.

Electric current

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Electric
current; Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and
cells.

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Kirchhoff’s
laws and simple applications.

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Heating
effect of current.

Magnetic Fields

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Biot
Savart’s law and Ampere’s law.

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Magnetic
field near a current-carrying straight wire, along with the axis of a
circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid.

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Force
on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic
field.

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The
magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a
current loop.

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Moving
coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic Induction

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Electromagnetic
induction, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law.

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Self
and mutual inductance.

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RC,
LR and LC circuits with D.C. and A.C. sources.

Unit
4 Optics

Reflection and Refraction

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Rectilinear
propagation of light.

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Reflection
and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, total internal reflection.

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Deviation
and dispersion of light by a prism.

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Thin
lenses, Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.

Wave nature of light

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Huygen’s
principle.

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Interference
limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

Unit
5 Modern Physics

Atoms and Nuclei

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Atomic
nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; Law of radioactive decay.

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Decay
constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation;
Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these processes.

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Photoelectric
effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous
X-rays.

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Moseley’s
law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.