Here is IIT JEE Physics Syllabus 2012 for IIT JEE 2012 Entrance Exam. IIT JEE Physics section ask questions based on class 11th and class 12th curriculum. Here given IIT JEE Physics Syllabus 2012 in detail.
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For General
Units and
dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant figures;
Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities
pertaining to the following experiments: Experiments based on using
vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), Determination of g using
simple pendulum, Young's modulus by Searle's method, Specific heat of a
liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex
lens using u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column,
Verification of Ohm's law using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific
resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office
box.
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For Mechanics
Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative velocity.
Newton's laws of motion; Inertial and
uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static and dynamic friction;
Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of linear
momentum and mechanical energy.
Systems of particles: Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.
Law of gravitation; Gravitational
potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and
satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.
Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel
and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies
with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation
of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of
rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres;
Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid
bodies.
Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Hooke's law, Young's modulus.
Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law;
Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity
(Poiseuille's equation excluded), Stoke's law; Terminal velocity,
Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli's theorem and its
applications.
Wave motion (plane waves only),
longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive
and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance;
Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For Thermal Physics
Thermal
expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat
conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and
radiation; Newton's law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv
and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic
processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First
law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases).
Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff's law;
Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law.
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb's
law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a
system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform
electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field;
Gauss's law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field
due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane
sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor
with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy
stored in a capacitor.
Electric current; Ohm's law; Series and
parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff's laws and
simple applications; Heating effect of current.
Biot-Savart's law and Ampere's law;
Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a
circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving
charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.
Magnetic moment of a current loop;
Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil
galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.
Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's
law, Lenz's law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with
d.c. and a.c. sources.
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For Optics
Rectilinear propagation
of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces;
Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism;
Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.
Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference limited to Young's double-slit experiment.
IIT JEE Physics Syllabus For Modern Physics
Atomic
nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; Law of radioactive decay;
Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its
calculation; Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these
processes.
Photoelectric effect; Bohr's theory of
hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's
law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.
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