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General Experimental Skills | 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 - elasticity of the material Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents.
- 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.
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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.
- 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.
- Forced and damped oscillation (in one dimension), resonance.
- Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
- Hooke's law, Young's modulus.
- Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Kepler's law, Geostationary orbits, Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.
- Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law;Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
- Viscosity (Poiseuille's equation excluded), Modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus in mechanics.
- 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).
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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); Second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes,
- Carnot engine and its efficiency;
- Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers;
- Kirchhoff's law; Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law.
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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, LC and LCR(in series) circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.
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Electromagnetic Waves | - Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics.
- Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses.
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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.
- Diffraction due to a single slit. Polarization of light, plane polarized light; Brewster's law, Polaroids.
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Modern Physics | - Atomic nucleus; α, β and γ 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 hydrogenlike atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.
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