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Physics Main Exam Syllabus
Units and dimensions.Displacements,velocity and acceleration.Kinematics in one and two dimensions.Projectiles,circular motion.Concept of relative motion.
Newton's laws of motion,concept of inertial and uniformly accelerated frames.Forces; spring force,
frictional force and gravitaional force.Work, energy and power.Momentum.Conservation of momentum and energy.Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Univeral law of gravitation; gravitational potential and feild; acceleration due to gravity; motion of planets and sattelites in circular orbits; Kepler laws.
Systems of particles; centre of mass and its motion.Elastic and inelastic collisions.Rigid bodies: moment of inertia; parallel and perpendicular axes theorems; moment of inertia of simple geometric shapes,e.g.,uniform ring,disc,thin rod, and cylinder.Angular momentum and torque; equilibrium of rigid bodies; conservation of angular momentum.
Hooke's law;Young's modulus; shear and bulk moduli.Principle of buoyancy; pressure in a fluid;streamlined flow;Bernoulli's theorem.
Wave motion: concepts of amplitude, frequency and phase; longitudinal and transverse waves;superposition of waves; progessive and stationary waves; vibration of strings and air columns;resonance;beats.Velocity of sound; echo;Doppler effect.
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases.Ideal gas laws; absolute temperature.Specific heats and their ratio.Isothermal and adiabatic processes. First law of thermodynamics.Calorimetry;latent heat;equivalence of heat and work. Heat conduction in one dimension; convection and elementry concepts of radiation; Stefan's law of radiation; Wein's displacement law; Newton's law of cooling.
Elements of the kinectic theory of gases. Pressure and temperature of an ideal gas.
Coulombs's law; electric feild and electric potential; lines of force; capacitance; dielectric constant; parallel plate capacitor; capaciotors in series and parrallel; energy stored in a capacitor;charging and discharging of a capacitor.
Electric current;Ohm's law; series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells.Kirchoff's law and their application to networks.Heating effect of a current.
Biot-Savarat law; force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic feild.Magnetic moment of a current loop; moving coil galvanaometer, voltmeter and ammeter.
Electromagnetic induction;Faradays's law; Lenz's law; definitions of self and mutual inductance.Growth and decay of current in an L-R circuit ;L-C oscillation.
Rectilinear propagation of light; reflection and refraction at plane and curved surfaces; total internal reflection and critical angle.Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism. Thin lenses;spherical aberration;combinations of mirrors and lenses;magnification;microscope and telescope.
Wave nature of light; interference; young's double slit experiment; fringe width; elementry concepts of diffraction by a single slit.
Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; law of radioactive decay; decay constant; half-life and mean life.Photoelectric effect. De Broglie wavelenght.Bhor's theory of hydrogen like atoms.Productions of characteristics and continuous rays; properties of X-rays. Atomic nucleus;binding energy and its calculation.Fission and fusion processes; energy calculations in these processes.
Elementry concepts of metals, insulators and semiconductors. Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors;p-n junction as rectifier;transistors;quantitative application as amplifier (in common emitter mode ) and osillator.
