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Physics and Measurement 

Units of measurements, System of Units, SI Units, fundamental and derived units, least count, significant figures, Dimensions of Physics quantities, dimensional analysis, and its applications.

Kinematics 

The frame of reference, motion in a straight line, Position-time graph, speed and velocity, uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time, scalars and vectors, vector, addition and subtraction, scalar and vector products, Unit vector, resolution of a vector, relative velocity, motion in a place, projectile motion, uniform circular motion. 

Laws of Motion

Force and inertia, Newton’s first law of motion; Momentum, Newton’s second law of motion; Impulses, Newton’s third law of motion. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of concurrent forces. 

Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction.

Dynamics of uniform circular motion: centripetal force and its applications: vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road.

Word, Energy, and Power

Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power. 

The potential energy of spring conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces; motion in a verticle circle: elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Rotational Motion

Centre of the mass of a two-particle system, Centre of the mass of a rigid body; basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force; torque, angular momentum, conversation of angular momentum and its applications. 

The moment of inertia, the radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, and their applications. Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions. 

Gravitation 

The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Kepler’s law of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity, Motion of a satellite, orbital velocity, time period and energy of satellite. 

Properties of Solids and Liquids

Elastic behavior, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke’s Law. Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal’s law and its applications. Effect of gravity on fluid pressure.

Viscosity, Stoke’s Law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity, Bernoulli’s principle and its applications. 

Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension - drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat capacity, calorimetry; change of state, latent heat. Heat transfer conduction, convection, and radiation.

Thermodynamics 

Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, the concept of temperature. Heat, work, and initial energy. The first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes. 

The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. 

Kinetic Theory of Gases

Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas, Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, the concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature: RMS speed of gas molecules: Degrees of freedom. Law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases; Mean free path. Avogadro’s number. 

Oscillations and Waves

Oscillations and periodic motion - time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase: oscillations of a spring - restoring force and force constant: energy in S.H.M. - Kinetic and potential energies; Simple pendulum - derivation of expression for its time period. 

Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of traveling wave. Displacement relation of a progressive wave. Principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves. Standing waves in strings and organ pipes. 

Electrostatics 

Electric charges: Conservation of charge. Coulomb’s law forces between two point charges, forces between multiple charges. 

Electric field: electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines. Electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole. 

Electric flux: Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell. 

Conductors and insulators. Dielectrics and electrical polarization, capacitors, and capacitances.

Current Electricity

Electric current. Drift velocity, mobility, and their relation with electric current. Ohm’s law. 

Electrical resistance. V-I characteristics of Ohmic and non-ohmic conductors. Electrical energy and power. Electrical resistivity and conductivity. 

Internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and parallel. Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications. Wheatstone bridge. Metre bridge. 

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

Biot-Savart Law and its applications to current carrying circular loop. Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid. 

Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field: Moving coil galvanometer, its sensitivity, and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter. 

Electromagnetic Waves

Displacement current. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, Gamma rays).

Optics 

Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces, thin lens formula and lens maker formula. Magnification. Power of a lens. Combination of thin lenses in contact. Refraction of light through a prism. 

Wave optics: wavefront and Huygens principle. Interference, Young’s double-slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources, and sustained interference of light. Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum. Polarization, plane-polarized light: Brewster’s law. 

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation 

Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect. Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation: particle nature of light. Matter waves nature of particle, de Broglie relation.

Atoms and Nuclei

Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission, and fusion.

Electronic Devices

Semiconductors; semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias; diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED. The photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode. Logic gates (OR. AND. NOT. NAND and NOR).