Rajasthan JET Physics Syllabus: Unit-wise Syllabus, Important Topics, Download PDF Here

Rotational Motion

• Calculation of MI in case of ring disc

• Car on a banked road

• Comparison of linear and rotational motions

• Conservation of angular momentum

• Cylinder and sphere

• Definition of the moment of inertia

• Examples of circular motion: car on a level circular road

• The general motion of a rigid body

• Motion of a rigid body on an inclined plane

• Nature of rotational motion

• Parallel axis theorem

• Pendulum or particle swinging in a vertical plane

• Perpendicular axis theorem for a plane lamina

• Rigid body rotation and conservation of its angular momentum

• Rotational motion of a single particle in a plane torque

40 Marks or 10 Questions

Dynamics of a Particle

• Static and dynamical problems involving forces and conservation laws

• Motion of a particle under different types of forces or potentials: Constant

• Linearly varying and variable conservation of linear momentum and energy

• Elastic and inelastic collisions

• Conservative and non-conservative force

• Application, a direct and oblique collision between particles

Thermodynamics

• Carnot cycle

• Efficiency of heat engine

• Heat engines (external and internal combustion engines -description only)

• Reversible and irreversible thermodynamics processes

• Second law of thermodynamics

40 Marks or 10 Questions

Heat & Thermodynamics

• Zeroth law of thermodynamics

• Work done during isothermal and adiabatic process

• Variation of volume and pressure of a gas with temperature

• Transfer of heat conduction

• Thermodynamics state isothermals and adiabatic

• Thermal expansion

• Pressure temperature and pressure-volume indicator diagrams

• Mechanical equivalent of heat

• Heat & Temperature

• The first law of thermodynamics

• Evaporation

• Equilibrium process and phase changes

• Convection and radiation

Radiation

• Black body

• Distribution of energy in the Black body spectrum

• Emissivity

• Idea of Plank’s law of radiation

• Kirchhoff’s law with illustrations

• Nature of heat radiation emissive and absorptive powers of the body

• Stefan’s law and Newton’s law of cooling

• Wien’s Displacement Law

Wave Optics

• Circularly polarised and elliptically polarised light

• Conditions of sustained interference

• Diffraction due to a circular obstacle and circular aperture on axial points

• Diffraction due to a single silt (qualitative)

• Diffraction: diffraction phenomena Fresnel’s and Fraunhofer's class of diffraction

• Fresnel’s Bi-Prism

• Fresnel’s half-period zone theory

• Fringe width and determination of wavelength

• Identification of polarised and unpolarised light by-polaroid

• Interference phenomenon

• Methods of obtaining the plane polarising length

• Plane polarised

• Polarisation: polarised and unpolarised waves

• Resolving power of telescope and microscope

• Young’s double-slit experiment

40 Marks or 10 Questions

Waves

• Amplitude of a wave

• Beats stationary waves

• Doppler effect in sound waves.

• Elementary ideas of musical scale and acoustic buildings

• Equation of a simple harmonic wave displacement

• Frequency

• Interference of sound waves

• longitudinal and transverse waves

• Nodes and antinodes

• Reflection and refraction of a wave. Superposition of waves

• Resonance tube

• Sound waves

• Stationary waves in pipes and strings

• Time period

• Velocity and acceleration of a particle during propagation of a wave

• Velocity of sound waves

• Wavelength

• Wave motion

Relativity

• Consequences

• Necessity of the theory of relativity

• Postulates of the special theory of relativity

• Qualitative information about length contraction

• Time dilation and mass-energy relation

Kirchhoff's Laws

• Calibration of voltmeter/ ammeter and measurement of internal resistance of a primary cell

• Kirchoff’s Laws of electrical circuits and its application to electrical circuits

• Measurement of EMF and small potential difference

• Potentiometer: Principal of potentiometer

40 Marks or 10 Questions

Electromagnetic Induction

• Self and Mutual induction

• Rectangular coil rotating in a uniform magnetic induction

• Potential differences developed across a conducting rod 

• Metal disc rotating in a uniform magnetic induction with a constant angular velocity

• Magnetic flux

• Induced EMF

• Induced current and energy balance in a rectangular

• Faraday’s law Lenz’s law

• Back EMF developed when a uniform magnetic induction between them

• A conducting rod rotating in a uniform magnetic induction with a constant angular velocity

Electromagnetic Waves

• Basic concepts of electromagnetic oscillations

• Electromagnetic spectrum (ultraviolet/ X-rays/ infra-red/ optical/ gamma rays/ radio-microwaves)

• Short history of EM waves (Marconi/ Hertz/ Maxwell/ Bose)

Semiconducting Electronic Devices

• Semi-conductors and insulators

• Semi-conducting p-n junction diode and its characteristic

• P-type and N-type semiconductors

• P-n-p and n-p-n junction transistors their characteristics and parameters

• Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors

• Electrons in solids

• Classification of metals

• Application in simple ideas and working of CRO radio television and computer

Electrostatics

• Spherical conductor

• Sphere made up of volume distribution of charge

• Gauss’s theorem and its applications in calculating electric field

• Free and bound changes in conductors and insulators

• Electric field vector

• Dielectric flux

• Behaviour of electric field and potential inside and on the surface of a conductor

Magnetic Effects of Current

• Magnetic induction inside a toroid

• Magnetic induction inside a long solenoid

• Ampere’s law and its applications: Magnetic

Alternating Currents

• Series — LCR resonant circuit

• Phase relationship between current and EMF in sinusoidal AC

• Instantaneous

• Induction coil

• Fluctuating DC and sinusoidal currents

• Direct current alternating current

• Choke and starter

• Average and root mean square value for AC

• AC and DC generators and motors

Photoelectric Effect and Matter Waves 

• Thompsons experiment

• Photoelectric equation

• Photoelectric effect

• photocells

• Einstein’s explanation

• De Broglie’s concept of matter waves Davisson and Germer experiment