Units and Measurements | Introduction of Units and Measurements, Measurement of Large Distances, Size of a Molecule, The international system of units, Measurement of Length, Estimation of Very Small Distances Range of Lengths, Measurement of Mass, Range of Masses, Random errors, Accuracy, Systematic errors, Precision of instruments and errors in measurement, Measurement of time, Least count error, Absolute Error, Relative Error and Percentage Error, Combination of Errors, Significant figures, Rules for Arithmetic Operations with Significant Figures, Dimensions of Physical Quantities, Rounding off the Uncertain Digits, Rules for Determining the Uncertainty in the Results of Arithmetic Calculations, Checking the Dimensional Consistency of Equations, Dimensional Formulae and dimensional equations, Dimensional Analysis and its Applications, Deducing Relation among the Physical Quantities. |
Motion in a plane | Introduction to Motion in a plane, position and displacement vectors, Scalars and vectors, equality of vectors, addition and subtraction of vectors - graphical method, multiplication of vectors by real numbers, resolution of vectors, motion in a plane, position vector and displacement, vector addition - analytical method, velocity, motion in a plane with constant acceleration, acceleration, relative velocity in two dimensions, equation of path of a projectile, projectile motion, time of maximum height, the horizontal range of projectile, maximum height of a projectile, uniform circular motion. |
Motion in a straight line | Introduction to Motion in a straight line, kinematic equations for uniformly accelerated motion, path length and displacement, position, average velocity and average speed, acceleration, instantaneous velocity and speed, and relative velocity. |
Laws of Motion | Introduction to Laws of Motion, Common forces in mechanics, static, kinetic and rolling frictions, Aristotle’s fallacy, Equilibrium of a particle, types of friction, Circular motion, Motion of a car on a banked road, Motion of a car on a level road, solving problems in mechanics. |
Work, Energy and Power | Introduction to Work, Work, Energy and Power, Notions of work and kinetic energy, The Scalar Product, The work-energy theorem, Kinetic energy, Work done by a variable force, The concept of Potential Energy, The work-energy theorem for a variable force, The conservation of Mechanical Energy, Various forms of energy, Heat, The Potential Energy of a spring, Chemical Energy, Electrical Energy, Nuclear Energy, The Equivalence of Mass and Energy, The Principle of Conservation of Energy, Power, Elastic and Inelastic Collisions, Collisions, Collisions in one dimension, Collisions in Two Dimensions, Coefficient of Restitution and its determination. |
Oscillations | Introduction to Oscillations, some systems executing Simple Harmonic Motion, Period and frequency, Displacement, Periodic and oscillatory motions, Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.), Simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion, Force law for Simple harmonic Motion, Velocity and acceleration in simple harmonic motion, Oscillations due to a spring, The Simple Pendulum, damped simple harmonic motion, Energy in simple harmonic motion, Forced oscillations and resonance. |
System Of Particles And Rotational Motion | Introduction to System Of Particles And Rotational Motion, Centre of mass, Rigid body motion, Centre of Gravity, Linear momentum of a system of particles, Motion of centre of mass, Vector product of two vectors, Angular acceleration, Kinematics of rotational motion about a fixed axis, Angular velocity and its relation with linear velocity, Moment of force (Torque), Torque and angular momentum for a system of a particle, Angular momentum of a particle, conservation of angular momentum, Equilibrium of a rigid body, Moment of inertia, Principle of moments, Dynamics of rotational motion about a fixed axis, Rolling motion, Angular momentum in case of rotation about a fixed axis, Kinetic Energy of Rolling Motion. |
Mechanical Properties Of Solids | Introduction to Mechanical Properties Of Solids, Young’s Modulus, Shear Modulus, Hooke’s law, Elastic behaviour of solids, Stress and strain, Stress-strain curve, Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire, Elastic moduli, Applications of elastic behaviour of materials and Bulk Modulus. |
Thermodynamics | Introduction to Thermodynamics, Thermal equilibrium, Heat, Internal Energy and work, Zeroth law of thermodynamics, First law of thermodynamics, Specific heat capacity of water, Specific heat capacity, Thermodynamic state variables and equation of State, Quasi-static process, Isothermal Process, Adiabatic Process, Thermodynamic processes, Isochoric Process, Cyclic process, Isobaric process, Second law of thermodynamics, Carnot engine, Reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot’s theorem. |
Gravitation | Introduction to Gravitation, the gravitational constant, central forces, Universal law of gravitation, Gravitational potential energy, Escape speed, Acceleration due to gravity of the earth, Acceleration due to gravity below and above the surface of the earth, Energy of an orbiting satellite, Orbital Speed, Earth satellites, Weightlessness, Geostationary and polar satellites. |
Mechanical Properties Of Fluids | Introduction to Mechanical Properties Of Fluids, Detergents and Surface Tension, Pressure, Variation of Pressure with Depth, Pascal’s Law, Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure, streamlined flow, Speed of Efflux, Bernoulli’s principle, Torricelli’s Law, Archimedes’ Principle, Hydraulic Machines, Blood Flow and Heart Attack, Dynamic Lift, Variation of Viscosity of fluids with temperature, Venturi- meter, Viscosity, Stokes’ Law, Reynolds number, Critical Velocity, Surface tension and Surface Energy, Angle of Contact, Drops and Bubbles, Capillary Rise. |
Kinetic Theory | Introduction to Kinetic Theory, Molecular nature of matter, Boyle’s Law, Charles’ Law, Behaviour of gases, Kinetic theory of an ideal gas, Pressure of an Ideal Gas, Law of equipartition of energy, Specific heat capacity, Kinetic interpretation of temperature, Monatomic Gases, Diatomic Gases, Specific Heat Capacity of Water, Specific Heat Capacity of Solids, Polyatomic Gases, Mean free-path. |
Thermal Properties Of Matter | Introduction to Thermal Properties Of Matter, Temperature and heat, Ideal-gas equation and absolute temperature, Measurement of temperature, Thermal expansion, Change of state, Specific heat capacity, Calorimetry, Triple Point, Latent Heat, Regelation, Newton’s law of cooling and its experimental verification. |
Ray Optics And Optical Instruments | Introduction to Ray Optics And Optical Instruments, refraction, Sign convention, total internal reflection, refraction at spherical surfaces and by lenses, power of a lens, total internal reflection in nature and its technological applications, a combination of thin lenses in contact, dispersion by a prism, optical instruments, refraction through a prism, the eye, the simple and compound microscopes, refracting telescope and Cassegrain reflecting telescope. |
Electric Charges And Fields | Introduction to Electric Charges And Fields, conductors and insulators, Electric charge, basic properties of electric charges, charging by induction, additivity of charges, quantization of charge, conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law, forces between multiple charges, electric field due to a system of charges, electric field, the physical significance of electric field, electric field lines, electric dipole, electric flux, the field of an electric dipole for points on the axial line and on the equatorial plane, dipole in a uniform external field, continuous charge distribution, the physical significance of dipoles, Gauss’s law. |
Waves | Introduction to Waves, displacement relation in a progressive wave, Transverse and longitudinal waves, amplitude and phase, period, wavelength and angular wave number, the speed of a travelling wave, speed of a transverse wave on a stretched string, angular frequency and frequency, speed of a longitudinal wave (speed of sound), reflection of waves, the principle of superposition of waves, standing waves and normal modes, beats. |
Wave Optics | Introduction to Wave Optics, Huygens principle, refraction in a rarer medium (at the denser medium boundary), refraction and reflection of plane waves using Huygens principle, the reflection of a plane wave by a plane surface, coherent and incoherent addition of waves, the Doppler effect, interference of light waves and Young‘s experiment. |
Current Electricity | Introduction to Current Electricity, electric current in conductors, Electric current, Ohm’s law, mobility, limitations of Ohm’s law, drift of electrons and the origin of resistivity, Temperature dependence of resistivity, Cells, EMF, electrical energy, power, internal resistance, cells in series and parallel, Wheatstone Bridge, Kirchhoff’s rules, Meter Bridge, Potentiometer. |
Magnetism And Matter | Introduction to Magnetism And Matter, bar magnet, magnetic field lines, the electrostatic analogue, magnetic declination and dip, Earth’s magnetism, Magnetism and Gauss’s Law. |
Moving Charges And Magnetism | Introduction to Moving Charges And Magnetism, sources and fields, Magnetic force, magnetic field, Lorentz force, motion in a magnetic field, the helical motion of charged particles, the magnetic force on a current carrying conductor, magnetic field due to a current element, Magnetic field on the axis of a circular current loop, Biot – Savart’s law, the magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron, Ampere’s circuital law, the solenoid and the toroid, magnetic dipole, the force between two parallel current carrying conductors, the ampere (UNIT), torque on a current loop, torque on a rectangular current loop in a uniform magnetic field, circular current loop as a magnetic dipole, the Moving Coil Galvanometer; conversion into ammeter and voltmeter. |
Altering Current | Introduction to Altering Current, AC voltage applied to a resistor, AC voltage applied to an inductor, AC voltage applied to a capacitor, AC voltage applied to a series LCR circuit, representation of AC and voltage by rotating vectors - Phasors, Phasor–diagram solution, analytical solution, resonance, LC oscillations, sharpness of resonance, transformers. |
Electromagnetic Induction | Introduction to Electromagnetic Induction, magnetic flux, Faraday’s Law of induction, experiments of Faraday and Henry, Lenz’s law and conservation of energy, energy consideration - a quantitative study, motional electromotive force, Eddy currents, mutual inductance, inductance, self-inductance, AC generator. |
Electrostatic Potential And Capacitance | Introduction to Electrostatic Potential And Capacitance, Electrostatic potential, potential due to an electric dipole, potential due to a system of charges, equipotential surfaces, potential due to a point charge, the relation between field and potential, potential energy in an external field, the potential energy of a single charge, the potential energy of a system of charges, potential energy of a system of two charges in an external field, electrostatics of conductors, the potential energy of a dipole in an external field, electrostatic shielding, electric displacement, capacitors and capacitance, dielectrics and polarisation, the parallel plate capacitor, a combination of capacitors, effect of dielectric on capacitance, capacitors in series, energy stored in a capacitor, capacitors in parallel, Van de Graaff generator. |
Atoms | Introduction, the line spectra of the hydrogen atom, Alpha particle scattering and Rutherford’s nuclear model of the atom, electron orbits, de Broglie’s explanation of Bohr’s second postulate of quantization, alpha particle trajectory, atomic spectra, spectral series, Franck – Hertz experiment, energy levels, Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, LASERlight. |
Electromagnetic Waves | Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves, sources of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum: radio waves, nature of electromagnetic waves, microwaves, infrared waves, ultraviolet rays, visible rays, X-rays, gamma rays. |
Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices And Simple Circuits | Introduction to Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices And Simple Circuits, Classification of metals, Band theory of solids, Intrinsic semiconductor, conductors, and semiconductors based on conductivity and energy bands, Extrinsic semiconductor, n-type semiconductor, Optoelectronic junction devices, p-type semiconductor, Photodiode, light emitting diode, solar cell. Junction transistor, Basic transistor circuit configurations and transistor characteristics, structure and action, transistor as a switch and as an amplifier (CE – Configuration), Digital Electronics and Logic gates, NOT, OR, AND, NAND and NOR Gates, Feedback amplifier and transistor oscillator, Integrated circuits. |
Communication Systems | Introduction to Communication Systems, basic terminology used in electronic communication systems, Elements of a Communication system, bandwidth of signals, propagation of electromagnetic waves, bandwidth of transmission medium, ground waves, space wave, modulation and its necessity, sky waves, production of amplitude modulated wave, size of the antenna or aerial, mixing up of signals from different transmitters, effective power radiated by an antenna, amplitude modulation, detection of amplitude modulated wave. |
Dual Nature Of Radiation and Matter | Introduction to Dual Nature Of Radiation and Matter, Electron emission, Hertz’s observations, Photoelectric Effect, Hallwachs and Lenard’s observations, the effect of intensity of light on photocurrent, experimental study of the photoelectric effect, the effect of potential on photoelectric current, Photoelectric effect and Wave theory of Light, the effect of frequency of incident radiation on stopping potential, Einstein’s Photoelectric equation, particle nature of light, the photon, Energy Quantum of Radiation, wave nature of matter, photocell. |
Nuclei | Introduction to Nuclei, Fission, Atomic masses and composition of the nucleus, size of the nucleus, Mass - Energy, Nuclear Force, the discovery of the neutron, Nuclear Energy, energy generation in stars, Nuclear reactor, nuclear fusion, and controlled thermonuclear fusion. |