| Physics |
Important topics |
| Measurement |
Dimensional analysis and error estimation, dimension compatibility and significant figures |
| Motion in one dimension |
Average velocity, instantaneous velocity, one dimensional motion with constant accelerations, freely falling bodies |
| Laws of Motion |
Force and inertia, Newton’s laws of motion and their significance |
| Motion in two dimensions |
Projectile motion, uniform circular motion, tangential and radial acceleration in curve-linear motion, relative motion and relative acceleration |
| Work, Power and Energy |
Work done by a constant and variable forces, kinetic and potential energy, power, conservative and non-conservative forces, conservation of energy, gravitational energy, work energy theorem, potential energy stored in a spring |
| Linear Momentum & Collisions |
Linear momentum and impulse, conservation of Linear momentum for two particle system, collisions, collision in one dimension, collision in two-dimension, rocket propulsion |
| Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis |
Angular velocity and angular acceleration, rotational kinematics, rotational motion with constant angular acceleration relationship between angular and linear quantities, rotational energy, moment of inertia for a ring, rod, spherical shell, sphere and plane lamina, torque and angular acceleration, work and energy in rotational motion, rolling motion of a solid sphere and cylinder |
| Gravitation |
Gravitational field, Kepler’s laws and motion of planets, planetary and satellite motion, geostationary satellite |
| Oscillatory motion |
Harmonic motion, oscillatory motion of mass attached to a spring, kinetic and potential energy, Time Period of a simple pendulum, comparing simple and harmonic motion with uniform circular motion, forced oscillations, damped oscillation and resonance |
| Mechanics of solids and fluids |
States of matter young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity, variations of pressure with depth, Buoyant forces and Archimedes Principle, Pascal's law, Bernoulli’s theorem and its application, surface energy, surface tension, angle of contact, capillary rise, coefficient of viscosity, viscous force, terminal velocity, Stoke’s law, stream line motion, Reynold’s numbers |
| Heat and thermodynamics |
First law of thermodynamics, specify heat of an ideal gas at constant volume and constant pressure, relation between them, thermodynamics process (reversible, irreversible, isothermal, adiabatic), second law of thermodynamics, concept of entrophy and concept of absolute scale, efficiency of a Carnot engine, thermal conductivity, Newton’s law of cooling, black body radiation, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law |
| Wave |
Wave motion, phase, amplitude and velocity of wave, Newton’s formula for longitudinal waves, propagation of sound waves in air, effect of temperature and pressure on velocity of sound, Laplace’s correction, Principle of superposition, formation of standing waves, standing waves in strings and pipes, beats, Doppler’s effect |
| Electrostatics |
Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential due to point charge, dipole and its field along the axis and perpendicular to axis, electric flux, Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find the field due to 15 infinite sheets of charge, and inside the hallow conducting sphere, capacitance, parallel plate capacitor with air and dielectric medium between the Plates, series and parallel combination of capacitors, energy of a capacitor, displacement currents |
| Current Electricity |
Concept of free and bound electrons, drift velocity and mobility, electric current, Ohm’s law, resistivity, conductivity, temperature dependency of resistance, resistance in series and parallel combination, Kirchoff’s law and their application to network of resistances, principle of potentiometer, effect of temperature on resistance and its application |
| Magnetic Effect of Current |
Magnetic field due to current, Bio-Savart’s law, magnetic field due to solenoid, motion of charge in a magnetic field, force on a current carrying conductors and torque on current loop in a magnetic field, magnetic flux, forces between two parallel current carrying conductors, moving coil galvanometer and its conversion into ammeter and voltmeter |
| Magnetism in Matter |
The magnetization of substance due to orbital and spin motions of electrons, magnetic moment of atoms, diamagnetism, Para magnetism, ferromagnetism, earth’s magnetic field and its components and their measurement |
| Electromagnetic Induction |
Induced e.m.f., Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s law, electromagnetic induction, self and mutual induction, B-H curve, hysteresis loss and its importance, eddy currents |
| Ray Optics and optical instruments |
Sources of light, luminous intensity, luminous flux, illuminance, photometry, wave nature of light, Huygen’s theory for propagation of light and rectilinear propagation of light, reflection of light, total internal reflection, reflection and refraction at spherical surfaces, focal length of a combination of lenses, spherical and chromatic aberration and their removal, reflection and dispersion of light due to a prism, simple and compound microscope, reflecting and refracting telescope, magnifying power and resolving power. |
| Wave Optics |
Coherent and incoherent sources of light, interference, young’s double slit experiment diffraction due to a single slit, linearly polarized light, Polaroid |
