Physics

SI units, fundamental and derived units, least count, accuracy and precision, errors in measurement, dimensions and dimensional analysis.

Motion in a straight line, uniform and non-uniform motion, acceleration, relative velocity, motion in a plane, projectile motion, uniform circular motion.

Newton's laws, momentum, impulse, conservation of linear momentum, friction, dynamics of uniform circular motion.

Work done by constant and variable forces, kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power, conservative and non-conservative forces, collisions.

Centre of mass, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum, moment of inertia, radius of gyration, rotational kinetic energy, rolling motion.

Universal law, acceleration due to gravity and its variation, gravitational potential energy, escape velocity, orbital velocity, Kepler's laws.

Elasticity, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Fluids: pressure, Pascal's law, viscosity, surface tension, Bernoulli's principle.

Thermal equilibrium, first law of thermodynamics, second law, heat engines, Carnot cycle, reversible and irreversible processes.

Equation of state, kinetic theory assumptions, pressure, kinetic energy and temperature, RMS speed, degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy.

Simple harmonic motion, equation of SHM, energy in SHM, wave motion, types of waves, principle of superposition, standing waves, beats, Doppler effect.

Electric charges, Coulomb's law, electric field, electric potential, electric dipole, Gauss's law, capacitors.

Electric current, drift velocity, Ohm's law, resistance, resistivity, temperature dependence, cells, Kirchhoff's laws, Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer.

Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, force on moving charge and current-carrying conductor, torque on current loop, galvanometer, magnetic materials, earth's magnetism.

Faraday's law, Lenz's law, induced EMF, self and mutual inductance, AC circuits, LCR series circuit, resonance, power in AC.

Electromagnetic waves, their characteristics, transverse nature, electromagnetic spectrum, applications.

Reflection at spherical mirrors, refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, total internal reflection, dispersion, lens formula, microscope, telescope.

Huygens' principle, interference, Young's double-slit experiment, diffraction, polarization, Brewster's law.

Photoelectric effect, Einstein's equation, particle nature of light, de Broglie relation, Davisson-Germer experiment.

Rutherford's model, Bohr's model, hydrogen spectrum, composition of nucleus, radioactivity, decay law, mass-energy relation, nuclear fission and fusion.

Semiconductors, p-n junction diode, diode characteristics, rectifiers, zener diode, transistor, logic gates.

Elements of communication system, wave propagation, modulation (amplitude and frequency), bandwidth of signals.

Vernier calipers, screw gauge, simple pendulum, Young's modulus, surface tension, viscosity, speed of sound, resistivity, potentiometer, galvanometer, optics experiments.