1. Electric Charges
and Fields
Content: Discusses the concept of electric charge, Coulomb’s law,
electric field, field lines, electric flux, and Gauss’s law.
Objective: Understand the fundamental concept of electric charge
and field. Apply Coulomb’s law and Gauss’s law to solve problems involving
charges and electric fields.
2. Electric Potential and Capacitance
Content: Covers electric potential, potential difference, electric
potential energy, equipotential surfaces, and the concept of capacitance in
detail.
Objective: Learn how to calculate electric potential and potential
energy. Understand the working of capacitors and their applications in circuits.
3. Current Electricity
Content: Deals with electric current, Ohm’s law, drift velocity,
electrical resistance, resistivity, series and parallel combinations of
resistors, and Kirchhoff’s laws.
Objective: Gain a thorough understanding of current, resistance,
and circuits. Apply Kirchhoff’s laws to solve complex circuit problems.
4. Moving Charges and Magnetism
Content: Focuses on the magnetic effect of current, BiotSavart law,
Ampere’s circuital law, force on a moving charge in a magnetic field, and the
working of a cyclotron.
Objective: Learn about the interaction between moving charges and
magnetic fields. Understand the principles of devices like cyclotrons and
motors
5. Magnetism and Matter
Content: Introduces the concept of magnetism, the earth’s magnetic
field, and the properties of magnetic materials like diamagnetism,
paramagnetism, and ferromagnetism.
Objective: Understand the magnetic behavior of materials and the
relationship between magnetism and electricity.
6. Electromagnetic Induction
Content: Covers Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz’s
law, eddy currents, and self and mutual inductance.
Objective: Learn how changing magnetic fields induce current and
voltage. Understand the practical applications of electromagnetic induction.
7. Alternating Current
Content: Explores alternating current, the concept of inductive and
capacitive reactance, impedance, and the working of transformers and AC
generators.
Objective: Understand the behavior of AC circuits and their
components. Learn the practical uses of AC in power transmission and
generation.
8. Electromagnetic Waves
Content: This chapter explains the concept of electromagnetic
waves, their properties, and the electromagnetic spectrum, including the
significance of Maxwell’s equations.
Objective: Understand how electromagnetic waves propagate and their
different types across the electromagnetic spectrum.
9. Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
Content: Focuses on the laws of reflection and refraction, lens
formula, magnification, optical instruments like microscopes and telescopes,
and the phenomenon of total internal reflection.
Objective: Master the concepts of image formation through lenses
and mirrors. Understand the working of optical devices.
10. Wave Optics
Content: Discusses the wave nature of light, interference,
diffraction, polarization, and Huygens’ principle.
Objective: Learn the wave behavior of light and apply it to
understand optical phenomena like interference and diffraction.
11. Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
Content: Covers the photoelectric effect, the dual nature of light
and matter, Einstein’s photoelectric equation, and de Broglie’s hypothesis.
Objective: Understand the quantum nature of light and matter, and
the waveparticle duality.
12. Atoms
Content: Discusses atomic models, the Rutherford model, the Bohr
model of the hydrogen atom, and the emission and absorption spectra.
Objective: Learn about the structure of atoms and the transitions
of electrons between energy levels.
13. Nuclei
Content: Focuses on the composition of the nucleus, nuclear forces,
radioactivity, massenergy equivalence, and nuclear reactions (fission and
fusion).
Objective: Understand nuclear properties, radioactivity, and the
principles of nuclear energy.
14. Semiconductor Electronics: Materials,
Devices, and Simple Circuits
Content: Covers semiconductors, diodes, transistors, logic gates,
and their applications in electronic circuits.
Objective: Learn about semiconductor devices, their working
principles, and their applications in modern electronics.