- Measurement: Dimensional analysis and error estimation, dimensional compatibility and significant
figures.
- Motion in one dimension: Average velocity, instantaneous velocity, one-dimensional motion with
constant accelerations, freely falling bodies.
- Laws of Motion: Force and inertia, Newton’s laws of motion, and their significance.
Motion in two dimensions: Projectile motion, uniform circular motion, tangential and radial acceleration
in curve-linear motion, relative motion and relative acceleration.
- Work, Power and Energy: Work done by a constant and variable forces, kinetic and potential energy,
power, Conservative and non conservative forces, conservation of energy, gravitational energy,
work energy theorem, potential energy stored in a spring.
- Linear Momentum & collisions: Linear momentum & impulse, conservation of linear momentum for
two particle system, collisions, collision in one dimension, collision in two dimension, rocket propulsion.
Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis: Angular velocity and angular acceleration,
rotational kinematics, rotational motion with constant angular acceleration relationship between angular
and linear quantities, rotational energy, moment of inertia for a ring, rod, spherical shell, sphere and plane
lamina, torque and angular acceleration, work and energy in rotational motion, rolling motion of a solid
sphere and cylinder.
- Gravitation: Gravitational field, Kepler’s laws and motion of planets, planetary and satellite
motion, geostationary satellite.
- Oscillatory motion: Harmonic motion, oscillatory motion of mass attached to a spring, kinetic &
potential energy, Time Period of a simple pendulum, comparing simple and harmonic motion with
uniform circular motion, forced oscillations, damped oscillations and resonance.
- Mechanics of solids and fluids: States of matter young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus
of rigidity, variations of pressure with depth, Buoyant forces and Archimedes principle, Pascal’s
law, Bernoulli’s theorem and its application, surface energy, surface tension, angle of contact, capillary
rise, coefficient of viscosity, viscous force, terminal velocity, Stoke’s law, stream line motion,
Reynold’s numbers.
- Heat and thermodynamics: First law of thermodynamics, specific heat of an ideal gas at
constant volume and constant pressure, relation between them, thermodynamics process (reversible,
irreversible, isothermal, adiabatic), second law of thermodynamics, concept of entropy and concept of
absolute scale, efficiency of a Carnot engine, thermal conductivity, Newton’s law of cooling, black
body radiation, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.
- Wave: Wave motion, phase, amplitude and velocity of wave, newton’s formula for longitudinal waves,
propagation of sound waves in air, effect of temperature and pressure on velocity of sound,
Laplace’s correction, Principle of superposition, formation of standing waves, standing waves in strings
and pipes, beats, Doppler’s effect.
- Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential due to point charge, dipole and its field along
the axis and perpendicular to axis, electric flux, Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find the field due
to infinite sheet of charge, and inside the hallow conducting sphere, capacitance, parallel plate capacitor
with air and dielectric medium between the Plates, series and parallel combination of capacitors, energy of
a capacitor, displacement currents.
- Current Electricity: Concept of free and bound electrons, drift velocity and mobility, electric current,
Ohm’s law, resistivity, conductivity, temperature dependency of resistance, resistance in series and
parallel combination, Kirchoff’s law and their application to network of resistances, principle of
potentiometer, effect of temperature on resistance and its application.
Magnetic Effect of Current: Magnetic field due to current, Biot-Savart’s law, magnetic field due
to solenoid, motion of charge in a magnetic field, force on a current carrying conductors and
torque on current loop in a magnetic field, magnetic flux, forces between two parallel current carrying
conductors, moving coil galvanometer and its conversion into ammeter and voltmeter. Magnetism in
- Matter: The magnetization of substance due to orbital and spin motions of electrons, magnetic
moment of atoms, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, earth’s magnetic field and its
components and their measurement.
- Electromagnetic induction: Induced e.m.f., Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s law, electromagnetic induction, self
and mutual induction, B-H curve, hysisteresis loss and its importance, eddy currents.
- Ray Optics and optical instruments: Sources of light, luminous intensity,luminous flux,
illuminance, photometry, wave nature of light, Huygen’s theory for propagation of light and rectilinear
propagation of light, reflection of light , total internal reflection, reflection and refraction at
spherical surfaces, focal length of a combination of lenses, spherical and chromatic aberration and their
removal, refraction and dispersion of light due to a prism, simple and compound microscope, reflecting
and refracting telescope, magnifying power and resolving power.
- Wave Optics: Coherent and incoherent sources of light, interference, young’s double slit
experiment diffraction due to a single slit, linearly polarized light, Polaroid.
- Modern Physics: Photo-electric equation, matter waves, quantization, Planck’s hypothesis, Bohr’s model
of hydrogen atom and its spectra, ionisation potential, Rydberg constant, solar spectrum and Fraunhofer
lines, fluorescence and phosphorescence, X-Rays and their productions, characteristic and
continuous spectra. Nuclear Instability, radioactive decay laws, Emission of α, β, γ rays, Mass – defect,
Mass Energy equivalence, Nuclear Fission Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Fusion. Classification of
conductors, Insulators and semiconductors on the basis of energy bands in solids, PN junction, PN Diode,
junction Transistors, Transistor as an amplifier and Oscillator.
Principles of Logic Gates ( AND, OR and NOT ) Analog Vs Digital communication, Difference between
Radio and television, Signal propagation, Principle of LASER and MASER, Population Inversion,
Spontaneous and stimulated Emission.
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- Atomic Structure: Bohr’s concept. Quantum numbers, Electronic configuration, molecular orbital theory
for homonuclear molecules, Pauli’s exclusion principle.
- Chemical Bonding: Electrovalency, co-valency, hybridization involving s,p and d orbitals hydrogen
bonding.
- Redox Reactions: Oxidation number, oxidizing and reducing agents, balancing of equations.
Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics: Equilibrium constant (for gaseous system only) Le Chaterlier’s
principle, ionic equilibrium, Ostwald’s dilution law, hydrolysis, pH and buffer solution, solubility product,
common- ion effect, rate constant and first order reaction.
- Acid – Base Concepts: Bronsted Lowry & Lewis.
- Electrochemistry: Electrode potential and electro-chemical series.
- Catalysis: Types and applications.
- Colloids: Types and preparation, Brownian movement, Tyndall effect, coagulation and peptization.
- Colligative Properties of Solution: Lowering of vapour pressure, Osmotic pressure, depression of
freezing point, elevation of boiling point, determination of molecular weight.
- Thermochemistry: Exothermic & endothermic reactions Heat of reaction, Heat of combustion &
formation, neutralization, Hess’s law.
- Periodic Table: Classification of elements on the basis of electronic configuration, properties of s,p and d
block elements, ionization potential, electronegativity & electron affinity.
- Preparation and Properties of the following: Hydrogen peroxide. copper sulphate, silver nitrate, plaster
of paris, borax, Mohr’s salt, alums, white and red lead, microcosmic salt and bleaching powder, sodium
thiosulphate.
- General Organic Chemistry: Shape of organic compounds, Inductive effect, mesomeric effect,
electrophiles & nucleophiles,
- Reaction intermediates: carboniumion, carbanions& free radical, Types of organic reactions,
Cannizzaro Friedel Craft, Perkin, Aldol condensation.
- Isomerism: Structural, Geometrical & Optical IUPAC: Nomenclature of simple organic compounds.
- Polymers: Addition & condensation polymers
Carbohydrates: Monosaccharides.
- Preparation and Properties of the followings: Hydrocarbons, monohydric alcohols, aldehydes,
ketones, monocarboxylic acids, primary amines, benzene, nitrobenzene, aniline, phenol,
benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, Grignard Reagent.
- Solid State: Structure of simple ionic compounds, Crystal imperfections (point defects only), Born-Haber
cycle
- Petroleum: Important industrial fractions, cracking, octane number, anti-knocking compounds
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