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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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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