1. Physical World and
Measurement
Content: Overview of physics, fundamental forces in nature, units
of measurement, accuracy and precision, significant figures, dimensions, and
measurement errors.
Objective: Understand the scope of physics, importance of
measurements in experiments, and use of dimensional analysis for unit
conversions.
2. Kinematics
Content: Motion in a straight line, concepts of displacement,
velocity, acceleration, and graphs of motion. Study of motion in two
dimensions, including projectile motion.
Objective: Analyze the motion of objects in one and two dimensions
using equations of motion and vector representation.
3. Laws of Motion
Content: Newton's three laws of motion, concepts of force, inertia,
friction, and applications of these laws in realworld situations.
Objective: Apply Newton's laws to solve problems related to the
motion of objects, with emphasis on free body diagrams and force analysis.
4. Work, Energy and Power
Content: Definition of work, kinetic and potential energy,
conservation of mechanical energy, power, and work energy theorem.
Objective: Understand the relationship between work, energy, and
power, and solve related numerical problems.
5. Motion of System of Particles and Rigid
Body
Content: Concepts of center of mass, rotational motion, moment of
inertia, torque, angular momentum, and theorems of rotational motion.
Objective: Analyze rotational dynamics and understand how forces
affect the motion of rigid bodies.
6. Gravitation
Content: Universal law of gravitation, gravitational potential
energy, acceleration due to gravity, motion of planets and satellites, and
escape velocity.
Objective: Apply the concept of gravitational force to planetary
motion and artificial satellites.
7. Properties of Bulk Matter
Content: Elasticity, stress strain relationship, fluid mechanics,
Bernoulli's theorem, viscosity, surface tension, and capillary action.
Objective: Understand the mechanical properties of solids and
fluids, and their applications in daily life.
8. Thermodynamics
Content: Zeroth, first, and second laws of thermodynamics, internal
energy, heat, work, entropy, and specific heat capacities of gases.
Objective: Learn how heat and work interact in various
thermodynamic processes and their implications in real world applications.
9. Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
Content: Equation of state of a perfect gas, assumptions of kinetic
theory of gases, mean free path, and degrees of freedom.
Objective: Understand the behavior of gases using the kinetic
theory and the significance of the gas laws.
10. Oscillations and Waves
Content: Simple harmonic motion (SHM), damped and forced
oscillations, resonance, wave motion, speed of sound, and the principle of
superposition of waves.
Objective: Analyze oscillatory motion and wave behavior in
different media and situations.
11. Electrostatics
Content: Coulomb’s law, electric field, potential, Gauss’s law,
capacitors, and electrostatic potential energy.
Objective: Learn the behavior of electric charges in static
conditions and apply the concepts to solve problems related to electric fields
and potentials.
12. Current Electricity
Content: Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, Kirchhoff’s
rules, internal resistance of cells, Wheatstone bridge, and potentiometer.
Objective: Understand the flow of electric current in circuits and
solve related numerical problems.
13. Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism
Content: BiotSavart law, Ampere’s law, force on a current carrying
conductor, moving coil galvanometer, Earth's magnetism, and magnetic properties
of materials.
Objective: Analyze how electric current produces magnetic fields
and apply the concept of magnetism in different physical situations.
14. Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating
Currents
Content: Faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction, Lenz’s law,
self and mutual inductance, AC circuits, and transformers.
Objective: Understand how changing magnetic fields induce current
and the working of AC circuits.
15. Electromagnetic Waves
Content: Electromagnetic spectrum, properties of electromagnetic
waves, and the propagation of EM waves.
Objective: Study the nature and significance of electromagnetic
waves and their applications.
16. Optics
Content: Reflection and refraction of light, mirror and lens
formula, total internal reflection, optical instruments, and wave optics
including interference, diffraction, and polarization.
Objective: Apply the principles of geometrical and wave optics to analyze
the behavior of light in different conditions.
17. Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
Content: Photoelectric effect, Einstein’s photoelectric equation,
matter waves, and de Broglie hypothesis.
Objective: Understand the dual nature of light and matter, and how
quantum physics explains the photoelectric effect.
18. Atoms and Nuclei
Content: Bohr’s model of the atom, energy levels, radioactivity,
nuclear fission and fusion, and mass energy equivalence.
Objective: Learn about atomic models, nuclear processes, and their
applications in energy production and medical fields.
19. Electronic Devices
Content: Semiconductors, pn junction, diodes, transistors, logic
gates, and their applications.
Objective: Understand the working of electronic components and
devices used in circuits and computing.