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• Electric charges and their conservation. Coulomb’s law – force between two-point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. 
• Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field. 
• Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).  
• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipoles in an electrostatic field.
• Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarisation, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor.

• Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and mobility, and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear), electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity, temperature dependence of resistance. Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and in parallel.
• Kirchhoff ’s laws, Wheatstone bridge.

• Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment. Biot-Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop.
• Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight solenoid. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields.
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current carrying conductors – definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in a magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer – its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.
• Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines. Para-, dia- and ferro-magnetic substances, with examples.

• Electromagnetic induction; Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance.
• Alternating currents, peak and rms value of alternating current/voltage; reactance and impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit, resonance; power in AC circuits, wattless current.
• AC generator and transformer

• Need for displacement current.
• Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only). Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves.
• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses.

• Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula. Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact combination of a lens and a mirror. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
• Scattering of light – blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.
• Optical instruments: Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.
• Wave optics: Wavefront and Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts.
• Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle.
• Interference, Young’s double hole experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources and sustained interference of light.
• Diffraction due to a single slit.
• Polarisation, plane polarised light.

• Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation – particle nature of light.  
• Matter waves – wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation.

• Alpha - particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones.
• Radioactivity – alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number; nuclear fission and fusion.

• Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), conductors, insulators and semiconductors; semiconductor diode – I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier.

Microbes in Human Welfare

Microbes in food processing, industrial production, sewage treatment, energy generation and microbes as bio-control agents and bio-fertilizers. Antibiotics; production and judicioususe.

(a) Cell and its structure, cell division-mitosis and meiosis and their significance

(b) Organization of the genetic materials in chromosomes, DNA, and RNA

(c) Mendel’s laws of inheritance. Reasons for the success of Mendel in his experiments, Absence of linkage in Mendel’s experiments.

(d) Quantitative inheritance, continuous and discontinuous variation in plants.

(e) Monogenic and polygenic inheritance.

(f) Role of Genetics in Plant breeding, self and cross-pollinated crops, methods of breeding in field crops-introduction, selection, hybridization, mutation and polyploidy, tissue and cell culture.

(g) History and importance of plant breeding, objective and role of plant breeding, Breeding methods in self and cross-pollinated crops

(h) Plant Biotechnology-definition and scope in crop production, Biotechnology of plant breeding

(a) Importance of livestock in agriculture and industry, White revolution in India.

(b) Important breeds Indian and exotic, distribution of cows, buffaloes, goats, sheeps and poultry in India.

(a) Systems of cattle and poultry housing

(b) Principles of feeding, and feeding practices.

(c) Balanced ration definition and ingredients.

(d) Management of calves, bullocks, pregnant and milch animals as well as chicks cockerels and layers, and poultry.

(e) Signs of sick animals, symptoms of common diseases in cattle and poultry, Rinderpest, black quarter, foot and mouth, mastitis and haemorrhagic septicaemia coccidiosis, Fowl pox and Ranikhet disease, their prevention, and control

(a) Targets and achievements in food grain production in India since independence and its future projections, sustainable crop production, commercialization of agriculture and its scope in India.

(b) Classification of field crops based on their utility-cereals, pulses, oils seeds, fibre, sugar, and forage crops.

(a) Soil, soil pH, Soil texture, soil structure, soil organisms, soil tilth, soil fertility, and soil health.

(b) Essential plant nutrients, their functions, and deficiency symptoms.

(c) Soil types of India and their characteristics.

(d) Organic manure, common fertilizers including straight, complex, fertilizer mixtures and biofertilizers; integrated nutrient management system.

(e) Problem soils, soil erosion, soil pollution.

(f) Soil analysis for nutrient availability

(a) Sources of irrigation (rain, canals, tanks, rivers, wells, tubewells).

(b) Scheduling of irrigation based on critical stages of growth, time interval, soil moisture content, and weather parameters.

(c) Water requirement of crops.

(d) Methods of irrigation and drainage.

(e) Watershed management.

(f) Irrigation water quality

(a) Importance of fruits and vegetables in the human diet, Crop diversification & processing Industry.

(b) Orchard- location and layout, ornamental gardening, and kitchen garden.

(c) Planting system, training, pruning, intercropping, protection from frost and sunburn.

(d) Trees, shrubs, climbers, annuals, perennials-definition and examples. Propagation by seed, cutting, budding, layering, and grafting.

(e) Cultivation practices, processing, and marketing of (i) Fruits - mango, papaya, banana, guava, citrus, grapes. (ii) Vegetables - Radish, carrot, potato, onion, cauliflower, brinjal, tomato, spinach, and cabbage. (iii) Flowers - Gladiolus, canna, chrysanthemums, roses and marigold.

(f) Principles and methods of fruit and vegetable preservation.

(g) Preparation of jellies, jams, ketchup, chips and their packing

Relations and Functions

Inverse Trigonometric Functions

Determinants

Continuity and Differentiability

Integrals

Applications of the Integrals

Vectors

Three-dimensional Geometry

Probability

Allegation and Mixture

Pipes and Cisterns