This page lists the detailed AIEEE Physics Syllabus 2012. AIEEE Physics Syllabus of Units 1 - 12 are given here which includes Measurement, Laws of Motion, Gravitation, Properties of Solids and Liquids.
AIEEE Physics Syllabus 2012 Units 1-12
UNIT 1: PHYSICS AND MEASUREMENT
Physics, technology and society, S I units, Fundamental and derived
units. Least count, accuracy and precision of measuring instruments,
Errors in measurement, Significant figures. Dimensions of Physical
quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.
UNIT 2: KINEMATICS
Frame of reference. Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph,
speed and velocity. Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and
instantaneous velocity Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time,
position-time graphs, relations for uniformly accelerated motion.
Scalars and Vectors, Vector addition and Subtraction, Zero Vector,
Scalar and Vector products, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector.
Relative Velocity, Motion in a plane, Projectile Motion, Uniform
Circular Motion.
UNIT 3: LAWS OF MOTION
Force and Inertia, Newton’s First Law of motion; Momentum, Newton’s
Second Law of motion; Impulse; Newton’s Third Law of motion. Law of
conservation of linear momentum and its applications, Equilibrium of
concurrent forces. Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction,
rolling friction. Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force
and its applications.
UNIT 4: WORK, ENERGY AND POWER
Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and
potential energies, work-energy theorem, power. Potential energy of a
spring, conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and
non-conservative forces; Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two
dimensions.
UNIT 5: ROTATIONAL MOTION
Center of mass of a two-particle system, Centre of mass of a rigid
body; Basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force, torque,
angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications;
moment of inertia, radius of gyration. Values of moments of inertia for
simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems
and their applications.
Rigid body rotation, equations of rotational motion.
UNIT 6: GRAVITATION
The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.
Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential.
Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites.
UNIT 7: PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS
Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke’s Law, Young’s
modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid
column; Pascal’s law and its applications. Viscosity, Stokes’ law,
terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, Reynolds number.
Bernoulli’s principle and its applications.
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, application of
surface tension - drops, bubbles and capillary rise. Heat, temperature,
thermal expansion; specific heat capacity, calorimetry; change of state,
latent heat. Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation,
Newton’s law of cooling.
UNIT 8: THERMODYNAMICS
Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, concept of
temperature. Heat, work and internal energy. First law of
thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and
irreversible processes. Carnot engine and its efficiency.
UNIT 9: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas.
Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic
energy and temperature: rms speed of gas molecules; Degrees of freedom,
Law of equipartition of energy, applications to specific heat capacities
of gases; Mean free path, Avogadro’s number.
UNIT 10: OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES
Periodic motion - period, frequency, displacement as a function of
time. Periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its
equation; phase; oscillations of a spring - restoring force and force
constant; energy in S.H.M. - kinetic and potential energies; Simple
pendulum - derivation of expression for its time period; Free, forced
and damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion. Longitudinal and
transverse waves, speed of a wave. Displacement relation for a
progressive wave. Principle of superposition of waves, reflection of
waves, Standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and
harmonics, Beats, Doppler effect in sound.
UNIT 11: ELECTROSTATICS
Electric charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law-forces 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, Gauss’s law and its
applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged
straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly
charged thin spherical shell. Electric potential and its calculation for
a point charge, electric dipole and system of charges; Equipotential
surfaces, Electricalpotential energy of a system of two point charges in
an electrostatic field. Conductors and insulators, Dielectrics and
electric polarization, capacitor, 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.
UNIT 12: CURRENT ELECTRICITY
Electric current, Drift velocity, Ohm’s law, Electrical resistance,
Resistances of different materials, V-I characteristics of Ohmic and
nonohmic conductors, Electrical energy and power, Electrical
resistivity, Colour code for resistors; Series and parallel combinations
of resistors; Temperature dependence of resistance. Electric Cell and
its Internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell,
combination of cells in series and in parallel. Kirchhoff’s laws and
their applications. Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge. Potentiometer -
principle and its applications.
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