Current Electricity : Electric current, drift velocity and mobility, Ohm’s law, resistivity, combination of resistances in series

Electrostatics : Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential,flux of electric field, Gauss’ law, electric field and potential due

Optics : Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, total internal reflection, thin lenses, power of a lens, combi

Thermodynamics : First law of thermodynamics, equivalence of heat and work, intensive and extensive thermodynamic variables, rever

Thermal Physics : Scales of temperature, thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases, calorimetry, change of state of matter, l

Wave motion : Elastic waves, longitudinal and transverse waves.

Vibrations : Simple Harmonic Motion, equation of motion, damped and forced vibrations, resonance, superposition of SHM

Hydrostatics and Fluid Mechanics : Pressure in a fluid, Pascal’s law, Archimedes’ principle, hydraulic press.

Elasticity : Hooke’s law, elastic modulii, Poisson’s ratio, elastic energy.

Gravitation :

Mechanics & General properties of matter
(i) Units and dimensions : Units of measurement, system of units, fundamental and derived units, S I units, dimensional analysis.
Methods of measurement: Vernier scale, screw gauge, analysis of errors, significant figures.
(ii) Scalars and vectors: Addition, subtraction, multiplication of vectors.
(iii) Kinematics in one, two and three dimensions, projectiles, uniform circular motion,centripetal force, centrifigual force, relative velocity.

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