Unit 1: Physical World and Measurement Unit 4: Work, energy and power

Units and Measurements, Need for measurement, Work done by a constant force and a variable
Units of measurement, systems of units, SI units, force; kinetic and potential energies, work energy
fundamental and derived units, significant figures, theorem, power. Potential energy of a spring,
Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional conservation of mechanical energy, conservative
analysis and its applications. and non-conservative forces; Elastic and inelastic
Unit 2: Kinematics collisions in one and two dimensions.
Frame of reference. Motion in a straight line: Unit 5: Rotational motion
Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Uniform Centre of mass of a two-particle system, Centre of
and non-uniform motion, average speed and mass of a rigid body; Basic concepts of rotational
instantaneous velocity Uniformly accelerated motion; moment of a force, torque, angular
motion, velocity-time, position-time graphs, momentum, conservation of angular momentum
relations for uniformly accelerated motion. Scalars and its applications; moment of inertia, radius of
and Vectors, Vector addition and Subtraction, Zero gyration. Values of moments of inertia for simple
Vector, Scalar and Vector products, Unit Vector, geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular
Resolution of a Vector. Relative Velocity, Motion in axes theorems and their applications.
a plane, Projectile Motion, Uniform Circular Motion. Unit 6: Gravitation
Unit 3: Laws of motion The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due
Force and Inertia, Newton’s First Law of motion; to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.
Momentum, Newton’s Second Law of motion; Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. Gravitational
Impulse; Newton’s Third Law of motion. Law of potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape
conservation of linear momentum and its velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-
applications, Equilibrium of concurrent forces. stationary satellites.
Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling
friction. Dynamics of uniform circular motion:
 concept of temperature. Heat, work and internal
Unit 7: Properties of Bulk Matter
energy. First law of thermodynamics. Second law of
Mechanical Properties of Solids Elasticity, Stress-
thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible
strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young’s modulus,
processes. Carnot engine and its efficiency.
bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity
Unit 9: Kinetic Theory of Gases
(qualitative idea only), Poisson's ratio; elastic
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on
energy.
compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases -
Mechanical Properties of Fluids Pressure due to a
assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic energy
fluid column; Pascal's law and its applications
and temperature: rms speed of gas molecules;
(hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), effect of
Degrees of freedom, Law of equipartition of
gravity on fluid pressure. Viscosity, Stokes' law,
energy, applications to specific heat capacities of
terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow,
gases; Mean free path, Avogadro’s number.
critical velocity, Bernoulli's theorem and its simple
Unit 10: Oscillations And Waves
applications. Surface energy and surface tension,
Periodic motion - period, frequency, displacement
angle of contact, excess of pressure across a
as a function of time. Periodic functions. Simple
curved surface, application of surface tension
harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase;
ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
oscillations of a spring -restoring force and force
Thermal Properties of Matter Heat, temperature,
constant; energy in S.H.M. - kinetic and potential
thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids,
energies; Simple pendulum - derivation of
liquids and gases, anomalous expansion of water;
expression for its time period; Free, forced and
specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv - calorimetry; change
damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion.
of state - latent heat capacity. Heat transfer-
Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of a
conduction, convection and radiation, thermal
Unit 8: Thermodynamics wave. Displacement relation for a progressive
conductivity, qualitative ideas of Blackbody
Thermal wave. Principle of superposition of waves,
radiation,equilibrium, zeroth lawLaw,
Wein's displacement of Stefan's law .
Unit 11: Electrostatics
code for resistors; Series and parallel combinations
Electric charges: Conservation of charge,
of resistors; Temperature dependence of
Coulomb’s law-forces between two point charges,
resistance. Electric Cell and its Internal resistance,
forces between multiple charges; superposition
potential difference and emf of a cell, combination
principle and continuous charge distribution.
of cells in series and in parallel. Kirchhoff’s laws
Electric field: Electric field due to a point charge,
and their applications. Wheatstone bridge, Meter
Electric field lines, Electric dipole, Electric field due
bridge. Potentiometer - principle and its
to a dipole, Torque on a dipole in a uniform electric
applications.
field. Electric flux, Gauss’s law and its applications
Unit 13: Magnetic Effects of Current and
to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged
Magnetism
straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane
Biot - Savart law and its application to current
sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
carrying circular loop. Ampere’s law and its
Electric potential and its calculation for a point
applications to infinitely long current carrying
charge, electric dipole and system of charges;
straight wire and solenoid. Force on a moving
Equipotential surfaces, Electrical potential energy
charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields.
of a system of two-point charges in an electrostatic
Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying conductor in
field. Conductors and insulators, Dielectrics and
a uniform magnetic field. Force between two
electric polarization, capacitor, combination of
parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of
capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of
ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in
a parallel plate capacitor with and without
uniform magnetic field; Moving coil galvanometer,
dielectric medium between the plates, Energy
its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter
stored in a capacitor.
and voltmeter. Current loop as a magnetic dipole
Unit 12: Current Electricity
and its magnetic dipole moment. Bar magnet as an
Electric current, Drift velocity, Ohm’s law, Electrical
equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s
resistance, Resistances of different materials, V-I
Unit 14: Electromagnetic Waves Unit 15: Dual Nature of Matter and radiation
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics. Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect, Hertz
Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric
Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, equation; particle nature of light. Matter waves-
microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, wave nature of particle, de Broglie relation.
gamma rays). Applications of e.m. waves. Davisson Germer experiment.
Reflection and refraction of light at plane and Unit 16: Atoms And Nuclei
spherical surfaces, mirror formula, Total internal Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s
reflection and its applications, Deviation and model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels,
Dispersion of light by a prism, Lens Formula, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of
Magnification, Power of a Lens, Combination of thin nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars;
lenses in contact, Microscope and Astronomical isotones. Radioactivity-alpha, beta and gamma
Telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their particles/rays and their properties; radioactive
magnifying powers. Wave optics: wave front and decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect;
Huygens’ principle, Laws of reflection and binding energy per nucleon and its variation with
refraction using Huygen’s principle. Interference, mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.
Young’s double slit experiment and expression for Unit 17: Electronic Devices
fringe width. Diffraction due to a single slit, width Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and
of central maximum. Resolving power of Simple Circuits Energy bands in conductors,
microscopes and astronomical telescopes, semiconductors and insulators (qualitative ideas
Polarization, plane polarized light; Brewster’s law, only) Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors- p and
uses of plane polarized light and Polaroids. n type, p-n junction Semiconductor diode - I-V
characteristics in forward and reverse bias,
application of junction diode -diode as a rectifier