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• Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy and precision of measuring instruments; errors in measurement; significant figures
• Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications

• Frame ofreference, Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity
• Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion.
• Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity time and position-time graphs
• Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment)

• Scalar and vector quantities; Position and displacement vectors, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative Velocity, Unit vector; Resolution of a vector in a plane - rectangular components. Scalar and vector product of vectors
• Motion in a plane. Cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration-projectile motion. Uniform circular motion

• Intuitive concept of force. Inertia, Newton's first law of motion; momentum and Newton's second law of motion; impulse; Newton'sthird law of motion
• Law of conservation of linearmomentum and its applications
• Equilibrium of concurrentforces. Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, lubrication
• Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on banked road)

• Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power
• Notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative forces: conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies); non-conservative forces: motion in a vertical circle, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions

• Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and centre of mass motion
• Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of a uniform rod
• Moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, laws of conservation of angular momentum and its applications
• Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions
• Moment of inertia, radius of gyration. Values of moments of inertia, for simple geometrical objects (no derivation). Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications

• Kepler'slaws of planetary motion. The universal law of gravitation
• Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth
• Gravitational potential energy and gravitational potential. Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites

• Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal'slaw and its applications. (Hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), Effect of gravity on fluid pressure
• Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity,streamline and turbulent
• Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, application ofsurface tension ideasto drops, bubbles and capillary rise

• Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases, anomalous expansion of water; specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv - calorimetry; change of state -latent heat capacity
• Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, thermal conductivity, Qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation, Wein's displacement Law, Stefan'slaw,Green house effect

• Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics). Heat, work and internal energy. Firstlaw of thermodynamics. Isothermal and adiabatic processes
• Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Heat engine and refrigerator

• 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 loaded spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period
• Free, forced and damped oscillations(qualitative ideas only), resonance

• Electric Charges; Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law-force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution
• Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines, electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in uniform electric field
• Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin sphericalshell (field inside and outside)

• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field
• Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarisation, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor. (no derivation, formulae only)

• Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear), electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity, temperature dependence of resistance
• Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cellsin series and in parallel. Kirchhoff’slaws, Wheatstone bridge

• Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment
• Biot - Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop
• Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire. Straight solenoid (only qualitative treatment), Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors- definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field; Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity. and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter

• Bar magnet, bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, (qualitative treatment only) Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. (qualitative treatment only), Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; (qualitative treatment only), magnetic field lines
• Magnetic properties of materials-Para-, dia- and ferro – magnetic substances, with examples
• Magnetization of materials, effect of temperature on magnetic properties

• Alternating currents, peak and rms value of alternating current/voltage; reactance and impedance; LCR series circuit, (phasors only), resonance; power in AC circuits, wattless current
• AC generator and transformer

• Basic idea of displacement current. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. (Qualitative ideas only)
• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses

• Ray Optics
• Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and optical fibers, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lensmaker’s formula. Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact.. Refraction of light through a prism
• Optical instruments: Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers

• Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard's observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation-particle nature of light. Experimental study of photoelectric effect
• Matter waves-wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation

• Composition and size of nucleus, nuclear force
• Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number; nuclear fission, nuclear fusion