AP EAMCET 2025 Physics Syllabus - List of Chapters & Topics Available Here

Chapter

Sub-Topics

Dimensions and Units, Measurements

• Introduction – Dimensions and Units, measuring instruments
• Accuracy 
• systematic errors
• Constant errors
• environmental errors
• Random errors
• Absolute Errors
• Gross Errors
• Relative Errors
• Addition Errors
• Percentage Errors
• Multiplication
• Subtraction
• Division
• Observed power
• Derived physical quantities and Fundamental
• Significant Figures
• System of Units
• Rules for writing units in SI
• submultiples of SI units and Multiple
• Derived units in SI
• Dimensional equations and Dimensional formula
• Principle of homogeneity of dimensions
• Discussion of one system of units and another

Elements of Vector

• Addition of vectors
• Classification of Physical quantities
• A geometrical representation of vectors Equality of vectors
• Unit vector in Cartesian coordinate system
• Subtraction of vectors
• Laws of vector addition
• Parallelogram law of addition of vectors
• Special cases
• Resolution of a vector into components
• Triangle law and polygon law of vectors Polygon law of addition of vectors
• Multiplication of vector with a scalar
• Motion of a boat across a river
• Product of two vectors- Examples of scalar product, properties of scalar product, examples of the vector product of two vectors – torque, angular velocity, and angular momentum, shortest path, shortest time, application to the relative motion of a boat in a river, 
• Derivation of expression for the magnitude and the direction of the resultant vector.

Kinematics

• Introduction: Motion in a straight line – displacement, Instantaneous velocity, and average speed, Uniform and non-uniform motion, 
• Velocity and speed
• Velocity-time and position-time graphs, acceleration due to gravity
• Equations of motion of an object vertically projected upwards from the ground, equation of trajectory, 
• Vertical projection of an object from a tower, Projectiles – oblique projection from the ground, two angles of projection for the same range, range, 
• Time of ascent, equations of motion of a freely falling body, equation of trajectory, time of the fight, velocity of the projectile (at any instant).

Laws of motion

• Introduction
• The law of inertia
• Aristotle’s fallacy
• Newton’s third law of motion, 
• Common forces in mechanics
• Impulse
• Newton’s second law of motion
• Equilibrium of a particle
• kinetic and rolling frictions
• Friction
• Motion of a car on a level road
• Circular motion
• Motion of a car on a banked road
• Solving problems in mechanics

Energy and Power, Work

• Introduction, Work is done by a variable force
• The work-energy theorem
• Electrical Energy
• The concept of Potential Energy
• The Scalar Product
• Chemical Energy
• The Principle of Conservation of Energy
• Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
• Notions of work and kinetic energy
• Nuclear Energy
• Various forms of energy
• Heat
• Work
• The work-energy theorem for a variable force
• Power
• Collisions
• Kinetic energy
• The Equivalence of Mass and Energy
• Coefficient of Restitution and its determination
• Collisions in Two Dimensions
• The Potential Energy of a spring.

Gravitation

• Introduction
• Universal law of gravitation
• Kepler’s laws
• Acceleration due to gravity of the earth, central forces, Orbital Speed Gravitational potential energy
• Geostationary and polar satellites
• Acceleration due to gravity below and above the surface of the earth
• Escape speed
• Weightlessness

Mechanical Properties of solids

• Introduction
• Stress and strain
• Elastic behavior of solids
• Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire
• Shear Modulus
• Hooke’s law
• Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched wire
• Stress-strain curve
• Bulk Modulus
• Applications of elastic behavior of materials

Mechanical Properties of fluids

• Introduction, 
• Variation of Pressure with Depth
• Bernoulli’s principle
• Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure
• Pressure
• Blood Flow and Heart Attack
• Pascal’s Law
• Stokes’ Law
• Dynamic Lift
• Speed of Efflux
• Surface Energy and Surface tension
• Hydraulic Machines
• Torricelli’s Law
• Critical Velocity
• Capillary Rise
• Archimedes’ Principle
• Viscosity
• Variation of Viscosity of fluids with temperature
• Venturi- meter
• Streamline flow
• Drops and Bubbles
• Detergents and Surface Tension.

Thermal Properties of Matter

• Introduction
• Measurement of temperature
• Change of state
• Ideal-gas equation and absolute temperature
• Black body Radiation
• Temperature and Heat
• Radiation
• Heat transfer
• Specific heat capacity
• Latent Heat
• Thermal expansion
• Conduction
• Calorimetry

Thermodynamics

• Introduction
• Zeroth law of thermodynamics
• Specific heat capacity of water
• Thermal equilibrium
• First law of thermodynamics
• Internal Energy and work
• Heat engines
• Thermodynamic processes
• Specific heat capacity
• Heat
• Isobaric process
• Thermodynamic state variables and equation of State
• Refrigerators and heat pumps
• Cyclic process
• Isothermal Process
• Reversible and irreversible processes
• Carnot’s theorem
• Adiabatic Process
• Isochoric Process
• Quasi-static process

Kinetic Theory

• Introduction
• Specific heat capacity
• Molecular nature of matter
• Diatomic Gases
• Kinetic interpretation of temperature
• Kinetic theory of an ideal gas
• Behaviour of gases
• Boyle’s Law
• Charles’ Law
• Specific Heat Capacity of Solid
• Monatomic Gases
• Mean free path.

Waves

• Introduction
• The speed of a traveling wave
• Transverse and longitudinal waves
• Speed of a longitudinal wave
• Standing waves and normal modes
• Displacement relation in a progressive wave
• Doppler effect: source moving and observer stationery
• Wavelength, and angular wave number, both source and observer moving.

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

• Introduction
• Sign convention
• The simple and compound microscopes
• Refraction through a prism
• A focal length of spherical mirrors
• Some natural phenomena due to sunlight, The rainbow
• The mirror equation
• Dispersion by a prism
• Reflection of light by spherical mirrors
• Combination of thin lenses in contact 
• Refracting telescope, and Cassegrain reflecting telescope

Wave Optics

• Introduction
• Coherent and incoherent
• Huygens principle
• The Doppler effect
• Interference of light waves, and Young‘s experiment
• Polarisation- polarisation by scattering, polarisation by reflection

Electric Charges and Fields

• Introduction
• Coulomb’s law
• Forces between multiple charges
• Electric field
• Electric field due to a system of charges, the physical significance of electric field, electric field lines, electric flux, electric dipole.

Name of the Book

Name of the Author/Publisher

Problems in Physics

S.S. Krotov-HC Verma  

EAPCET Physics (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana)

Arihant Experts

Physics for IIT-JEE

Resnick Halliday, Walker

IIT JEE Physics

DC Pandey

Problems in General Physics

I.E. Irodov

EAPCET Physics (Andhra Pradesh & Telangana)

Arihant Experts

Concepts of Physics (Volume – 1 and 2)

HC Verma

Key Notes Terms, Notes, Formula

Arihant Experts

Key Notes Terms, Notes, Formula

Arihant Experts

Subjects

Total No Of Questions

Total Marks

Physics

40

40

Chemistry

40

40

Mathematics

80

80

Total

160

160