Unit | Chapter | Topics |
Electrostatics | Electric Charges and Fields | - Coulomb’s Law
- Gauss’s Law and its application
- Electric charge and its properties.
- Electric Field due to a point charge
- Uniformly Charged Infinite Plane Sheet
- Statement of Gauss’s Theorem
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Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance | - Electric potential due to a point charge
- The capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor with and without a dielectric medium between the plates
- Equipotential Surfaces
- Energy stored in a capacitor
- Potential Energy
- Dielectrics and electric polarisation.
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Current Electricity | Current Electricity | - Temperature dependence of resistance
- Drift Velocity, Ohm’s Law, resistivity and conductivity
- The internal resistance of a cell
- Potential difference and EMF of a cell
- Kirchhoff’s Laws and Simple Applications Potentiometer
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Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism | Moving Charges and Magnetism | - Moving Coil Galvanometer: Its current sensitivity and conversion to an Ammeter and Voltmeter
- Biot-Savart law
- Current carrying circular loop
- Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
- Ampere’s law and its applications to an infinitely long straight wire
- Solenoid, Cyclotron, Lorentz Force
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Magnetism and Matter | - Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron
- Current loop as a magnetic dipole
- Earth’s Magnetic Field and magnetic elements
- Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole
- Paramagnetic, Diamagnetic and Ferromagnetic substances, Electromagnets, Permanent magnets
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EMI and AC | Electromagnetic Induction | - Lenz’s Law
- Faraday’s Law
- Self and Mutual Induction
- Eddy Currents
- Magnetic flux
- Transformer
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Alternating Current | - LCR Series Circuit
- AC generator and transformer
- LCR circuit and phasor diagrams
- Reactance and impedance
- Power factor, watt less current, resonance
- Peak and RMS value of alternating current and voltage
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EMW | Electromagnetic Waves | - Energy of EM Wave
- Electromagnetic spectrum, including elementary facts about their uses
- Displacement current
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Optics | Ray Optics and Optical Instruments | - TIR mirror formula
- Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism
- Lens formula
- Refraction at spherical surfaces, lensmaker’s formula
- Combination of thin lenses, light through a prism, optical instruments
- Mirror formula, refractive index, laws of refraction
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Wave Optics | - Young’s Double Slit Experiment
- Diffraction due to a single slit, photoelectric effect
- Huygens’ Principle
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Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation | Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation | - Matter waves: wave nature of particles, De Broglie Relation
- Photoelectric effect, effect on intensity, frequency
- Einstein’s photoelectric equation
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Atoms and Nuclei | Atoms | - Rutherford’s Model of Atom
- Alpha-particle scattering experiment
- Bohr’s Model
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Nuclei | - Radioactivity
- Mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number
- Size of nucleus
- Alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays
- Radioactive decay law
- Nuclear fission and fusion
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Semiconductor Electronics | Semiconductor Electronics | - Semiconductor Diode
- Characteristics and graph of diode, PN junction
- Diode as rectifier, Zener diode
- LED, solar cell, photodiode
- Semiconductor diode: forward and reverse bias of diode
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Communication System | Communication System | - Elements of a communication system (block diagram only)
- Frequency of range
- Need of modulation, amplitude modulation
- Bandwidth of signals (speech, TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky, and space wave propagation
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