PHYSICS SYLLABUS

JULY
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement
Chapter 1 : Physical World
Physics - scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology
and society.
Chapter 2 : Units And Measurement
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.
Unit II: Kinematics
Chapter 3 : Motion In A Straight Line
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).
Practicals
Expt.1
To measure diameter of a small spherical/cylindrical body and to measure internal diameter and depth of a
given beaker/calorimeter using Vernier Callipers and hence find its volume.
Expt.2
To measure diameter of a given wire and thickness of a given sheet using screw gauge.
Expt.3
To determine volume of an irregular lamina using screw gauge.
Expt.4
To determine radius of curvature of a given spherical surface by a spherometer
Activity 1
To make a paper scale of given least count, e.g., 0.2cm, 0.5 cm.
Activity 2
To determine mass of a given body using a metre scale by principle of moments.
Revision :- Monthly Test I Unit I, II
AUGUST
Chapter 4 : Motion In A Plane
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.
Unit III: Laws of Motion
Chapter 5 : Laws Of 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).
Practicals
Expt.5
To find the weight of a given body using parallelogram law of vectors.
Expt.6
Using a simple pendulum, plot L-T and L-T2 graphs. Hence find the effective length of second's
pendulum using appropriate graph.
Activity 3
To study the conservation of energy of a ball rolling down on an inclined plane (using a double inclined
plane).
Activity 4
To observe and explain the effect of heating on a bi-metallic strip.
SEPTEMBER
Unit IV: Work, Energy and Power
Chapter 6 : Work, Energy And Power
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.
Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Chapter 7 : Systems Of Particles And Rotational Motion
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.
Practicals
Expt.7
To study the relationship between force of limiting friction and normal reaction and to find the
coefficient of friction between a block and a horizontal surface.
OCTOBER
Chapter 7 : Systems Of Particles And Rotational Motion (contd..)
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.
Unit VI: Gravitation
Chapter 8 : Gravitation
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.
Practicals
Expt.8
To find the downward force, along an inclined plane, acting on a roller due to Gravitational pull of the
earth and study its relationship with the angle of inclination by plotting graph between force and sin.
Expt.9
To find the force constant of a helical spring by plotting a graph between load and extension
Activity 5
To note the change in level of liquid in a container on heating and interpret the observations.
Activity 6
To study the effect of load on depression of a suitably clamped metre scale loaded at (i) its end (ii) in the
middle.
Revision :- Monthly Test II Unit IV, V
NOVEMBER
Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter 9 : Mechanical Properties Of Solids
Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus,
bulk modulus, shear
modulus of rigidity, Poisson's ratio; elastic energy.
Chapter 10 : Mechanical Properties Of Fluids
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.
Chapter 11 : Thermal Properties Of Matter
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.
Revision :- Monthly Test III Unit VI, VII
Practicals
Expt.10
To determine the surface tension of water by capillary rise method.
Expt.11
To determine the coefficient of viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring terminal
velocity of a given spherical body.
Expt.12
To study the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time by plotting a cooling
curve.
Expt.13
To study the relation between the length of a given wire and tension for constant frequency using
sonometer.
Expt.14
To find the speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube by two resonance
positions
DECEMBER
Unit VIII: Thermodynamics
Chapter 12 : Thermodynamics
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.
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter 14 : Oscillations
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.
Practicals
Expt.15
To determine Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a given wire.
Demo-Exp1 Demo-Exp2
Projectile motion : Range of trajectory at different angles of projection.
Applications of Bernoullis principle.
JANUARY
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter 15 : Waves
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.
FEBRUARY
Revision :- Annual examination (full syllabus)
EXAMWISE SYLLABUS BREAKUP
MONTHLY TEST I Unit I, II
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement
Chapter 1 : Physical World
Chapter 2 : Units And Measurement
Unit II: Kinematics
Chapter 3 : Motion In A Straight Line
Chapter 4 : Motion In A Plane
MONTHLY TEST II Unit IV, V
Unit IV: Work, Energy and Power
Chapter 6 : Work, Energy And Power
Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Chapter 7 : Systems of Particles And Rotational Motion
MONTHLY TEST III Unit VI, VII
Unit VI: Gravitation
Chapter 8 : Gravitation
Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter 9 : Mechanical Properties Of Solids
Chapter 10 : Mechanical Properties Of Fluids
Chapter 11 : Thermal Properties Of Matter
MID-TERM EXAM.
(Unit I, II, III)
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement
Chapter 1 : Physical World
Chapter 2 : Units And Measurement
Unit II: Kinematics
Chapter 3 : Motion In A Straight Line
Chapter 4 : Motion In A Plane
Unit III: Laws of Motion
Chapter 5 : Laws Of Motion
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION (I) 3 hr duration
MONTHLY TEST IV
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter 14 : Oscillations
Chapter 15 : Waves
FINAL TERM EXAM. (Complete Syllabus)
(Unit I to Unit X, excluding unit IX)
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement
Chapter 1 : Physical World
Chapter 2 : Units and Measurement
Unit II: Kinematics
Chapter 3 : Motion in a Straight Line
Chapter 4 : Motion in a Plane
Unit III: Laws of Motion
Chapter 5 : Laws of Motion
Unit IV: Work, Energy and Power
Chapter 6 : Work, Energy And Power
Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Chapter 7 : Systems Of Particles And Rotational Motion
Unit VI: Gravitation
Chapter 8 : Gravitation
Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter 9 : Mechanical Properties of Solids
Chapter 10 : Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Chapter 11 : Thermal Properties of Matter
Unit VIII: Thermodynamics
Chapter 12 : Thermodynamics
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter 14 : Oscillations
Chapter 15 : Waves

JULY
Sets:
Sets and their representations. Empty set. Finite and Infinite sets. Equal sets.
Subsets. Subsets of a set of real numbers especially intervals (with notations).
Power set. Universal set. Venn diagrams. Union and Intersection of sets. Difference
of sets. Complement of a set. Properties of Complement
Sets.
Relations & Functions:
Ordered pairs, Cartesian product of sets. Number of elements in the cartesian
product of two finite sets. Cartesian product of the set of reals with itself (upto R x
R x R). Definition of relation, pictorial diagrams, domain, co-domain and range of
a relation. Function as a special kind of relation from one set to another. Pictorial
representation of a function, domain, co-domain and range of a function. Real
valued functions, domain and range of these functions, constant, identity,
polynomial, rational, modulus, signum and greatest integer functions, with their
graphs. Sum, difference, product and quotients of functions. Concept of
exponential and logarithmic function.
Trigonometric Functions:
Positive and negative angles. Measuring angles in radians and in degrees and
conversion from one measure to another. Definition of trigonometric functions
with the help of unit circle. Signs of trigonometric functions. Domain and range of
trigonometric functions and their graphs. . General solution of trigonometric
equations . Proof and simple applications of sine and cosine formulae.
AUGUST
Principle of Mathematical Induction:
Process of the proof by induction, motivating the application of the method by
looking at natural numbers as the least inductive subset of real numbers. The
principle of mathematical induction and simple applications.
Complex Numbers and Quadratic Equations:
Need for complex numbers, especially, to be motivated by inability to solve some
of the quadratic equations. Algebraic properties of complex numbers. Argand plane
and polar representation of complex numbers. Statement of Fundamental Theorem
of Algebra, solution of quadratic equations in the complex number system. Square
root of a complex number.
Linear Inequalities:
Linear inequalities. Algebraic solutions of linear inequalities in one variable and
their representation on the number line. Graphical solution of linear inequalities in
two variables. Graphical solution of system of linear inequalities in two variable
SEPTEMBER
Permutations and Combinations:
Fundamental principle of counting. Factorial Permutations and combinations,
derivation of formulae and their connections, simple applications
OCTOBER
Binomial Theorem:
History, statement and proof of the binomial theorem for positive integral indices.
Pascal's triangle, General and middle term in binomial expansion, simple
applications.
Sequence and Series:
Sequence and Series. Arithmetic Progression (A. P.). Arithmetic Mean (A.M.)
Geometric Progression (G.P.), general term of a G.P., sum of n terms of a G.P.,
Arithmetic and Geometric series infinite G.P. and its sum, geometric mean (G.M.),
relation between A.M. and G.M. Sum to n terms of the special sequences.
NOVEMBER
Straight Lines:
Brief recall of two dimensional geometry from earlier classes. Shifting of origin.
Slope of a line and angle between two lines. Various forms of equations of a line:
parallel to axis, point-slope form, slope-intercept form, two-point form, intercept
form and normal form. General equation of a line. Equation of family of lines
passing through the point of intersection of two lines. Distance of a point from a
line.
Conic Sections:
Sections of a cone: circles, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, a point, a straight line and
a pair of intersecting lines as a degenerated case of a conic section. Standard
equations and simple properties of parabola, ellipse and hyperbola. Standard
equation of a circle.
Introduction to Threedimensional Geometry
Coordinate axes and coordinate planes in three dimensions. Coordinates of a point.
Distance between two points and section formula
DECEMBER
Limits and Derivatives:
Derivative introduced as rate of change both as that of distance function and
geometrically. Intuitive idea of limit. Limits of polynomials and rational functions
trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions. Definition of derivative
relate it to scope of tangent of the curve, derivative of sum, difference, product and
quotient of functions. Derivatives of polynomial and trigonometric functions
Statistics:
Measures of dispersion; mean deviation, variance and standard deviation of
ungrouped/grouped data. Analysis of frequency distributions with equal means but
different variances.
Probability:
Random experiments; outcomes, sample spaces (set representation). Events;
occurrence of events, 'not', 'and' and 'or' events, exhaustive events, mutually
exclusive events, Axiomatic (set theoretic) probability, connections with the
theories of earlier classes. Probability of an event, probability of 'not', 'and' and 'or'
events
JANUARY AND FEBRUARY
Revision of the whole syllabus and the revision of model test papers
TEST WISE SYLLABUS BREAK - UP
MONDAY TEST 1
Chapters 1-3 from N.C.E.R.T textbook
MID TERM EXAM
Chapters 1-7 from N.C.E.R.T textbook
MONDAY TEST 2
Chapters 8-9 from N.C.E.R.T textbook
MONDAY TEST 3
Chapters 10-12 from N.C.E.R.T textbook
MONDAY TEST 4
Chapters 13,15 from N.C.E.R.T textbook
ANNUAL EXAM
Whole Syllabus