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 a meter bridge and a 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 monatomic 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; Halflife 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.