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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.
Sound: 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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