Chapter Name | SubTopics |
Physics and Measurements | - Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units, least count, errors in measurement, significant figures.
- Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis, and its applications.
|
Kinematics | - The 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 graph, relations for uniformly accelerated motion.
- Scalars and Vectors, Vectors. Addition and subtraction, scalar and vector products. Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector. Relative Velocity.
- Motion in a plane, Projectile Motion. Uniform Circular Motion.
|
Laws of Motion | - Force and inertia, Newton's First law of motion, Momentum, Newton’s Second Law of motion, Impulses, 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, vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road.
|
Work, Energy and Power | - Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power.
- The potential energy of spring conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces; motion in a vertical circle: Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.
|
Rotational Motion | - Centre of the mass of a two-particle system, Centre of the mass of a rigid body: Basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force; torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications.
- The moment of inertia, the radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems. and their applications.
- Equilibrium of rigid bodies. rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions.
|
Gravitation | - The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Kepler's law of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential.
- Escape velocity, Motion of a satellite, orbital velocity, time period and energy of satellite.
|
Properties of Solid and Liquids | - Elastic behavior, 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. Effect of gravity on fluid pressure.
- Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline, and turbulent flow, Critical velocity, Bernoulli's principle and its applications.
- Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, 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.
|
Thermodynamics | - Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, the concept of temperature. Heat, work, and internal energy.
- The first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes.
- The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes.
|
Kinetic Theory of Gases | - Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas, Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, the concept of pressure.
- Kinetic interpretation of temperature: RMS speed of gas molecules: Degrees of freedom. Law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases; Mean free path. Avogadro's number.
|
Oscillation and Waves | - Oscillations and periodic motion - time 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
- Wave motion, Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of traveling 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.
|
