- Physics - scope and excitement
- Nature of physical laws
- Physics, technology and society
- 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 of reference, 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, general vectors and their notations
- 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's third law of motion
- Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications
- Equilibrium of concurrent forces
- 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.
- Keplar's laws 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
- Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity, Poisson's ratio, elastic energy
- Pressure due to a fluid column, Pascal's law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes). Effect of gravity on fluid pressure
- Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity.Bernoulli's theorem and its applications
- Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension ideas to 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's law, Green house effect
- Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics).Heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Isothermal and adiabatic processes
- Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Heat engine and refrigerator
- Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a gas
- Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equi-partition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases; concept of mean free path, Avogadro's number
- 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 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
- Wave motion. Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of wave motion. Displacement relation for a progressive wave. Principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, Beats, Doppler effect
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