 Electrostatics:

o Coulomb's law
o Electric field intensity of a dipole at axial and equatorial
positions
o Electric field intensity at any point due to an ideal dipole
o Force and torque acting on a dipole in an external uniform
electric field
o Work done to rotate a dipole in an external uniform electric
field
o Gauss' theorem (verification and application)
o Electric field intensity due to a thin uniformly charged plane
sheet
o Electric field intensity due to an uniformly charged spherical
shell
o Electric potential at a point due to a point charge
o Capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor
o Capacitance of a single and concentric sphere
o Energy stored in a capacitor
o Effect of dielectric medium on the capacitance of a parallel
plate capacitor
o Series and parallel combination of capacitor
 Current electricity
o Ohm's law and it's derivation
o Drift velocity of free electrons and it's relation with current
o Series and parallel combination of resistors
o Kirchhoff's law and simple application
o Learn formulas and practice numerical of the following
 Meterbridge, Ammeter, Voltmeter,
Potentiometer
 Magnetic effects of current and electricity
o Biot-Savart's law
o Magnetic field intensity due to a straight current carrying
conductor of finite length
o Magnetic field intensity due to a circular loop of current
carrying conductor
o Magnetic field at any point on the axis of a circular loop and
coil
o Ampere's cicuital law and it's applications
 Magnetic field due to an infinitely long straight
current carrying conductor
 Magnetic field intensity at any point inside a
straight infinitely long solenoid and toroid
o Lorentz law and it's properties
o Motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field when the
velocity is perpendicular to the magnetic field
 o Motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field when the
velocity is not perpendicular to the magnetic field
o Cyclotron (principal + construction + working)
o Force on a current carrying conductor in an uniform
magnetic field
o Force and torque acting on a current carrying loop in an
uniform magnetic field
o Moving coil galvanometer (principle + construction +
working)
o Force between parallel current carrying conductors
 Magnetism and matter
o Magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole at axial line and
equatorial line
o Force and torque acting on a dipole moment in an external
uniform electric field
o Work done in rotating a magnetic dipole in an uniform
magnetic field
o Terrestrial magnetism
o Dia, para and ferro magnetic substances
 Electromagnetic induction
o Faraday's experiment
o Motional EMF or induced EMF
o Self inductance and work done
o Mutual inductance
 Alternating current
o A.C. Generator (Diagram, Principle, Construction and
working). Derive the expression for induced emf and current
o Transformer ( Principle, Construction, Working and Theory).
 How is current affected in transformer?
 What are energy loss in transformers, how can
they be reduced?
o Mathematical treatment of L-C oscillation
o Conservation of energy in L-C oscillation
o Define power for an A.C. circuit. Derive an expression for the
average of a series L-C-R circuit connected to an A.C. source.
Discuss the various special cases
o Impedance, Reactance and average power in series L-C-R, L-
R, L-C or C-R circuit
o Derive an expression for the impedance of a series LCR
circuit using phasor diagram
o Resonance condition of a series LCR circuit. Calculate is
resonant frequency
o Sharpness of resonance in a series resonant circuit. Find
expression for Q-factor of circuit
o A.C. circuit containing
  Inductor
 Resistor
 Capacitor
 Draw phasor diagram, graph of E and V versus
wt
o Average value of A.C. over one complete cycle
o Relation between the rms value and peak value of an
alternating current
o Relation between the effective and peak value of an
alternating current
o Relation between average value and peak value of an
alternating current
 Electromagnetic waves
o Derivation of displacement current
o Characteristics and properties of EM waves
o Electromagnetic spectrum
 Ray optics and optical instruments
o Reflection from spherical mirror and find relation between f
and r
o Mirror formula using concave and convex mirror
o Total internal reflection
o Refraction through spherical surfaces
o Lens maker's formula
o Refraction through a glass prism and minimum angle of
deviation
o Scattering of light
o Optical instruments
 Wave optics
o Expression for the intensity at any point on the observation
screen in Young’s double slit experiment and find the
condition for constructive and destructive interference
o Expression for fringe width in Young’s double slit
experiment. How can the wavelength of monochromatic
light be found by this experiment?
o Diffraction using single slit
o Deduce expression for
 Angular width of Central maximum
 Linear width of Central maximum
 Linear width of secondary maximum
o Polarisation
 Dual nature of matter and radiation
o Derivation of De-broglie relation
o Relation between threshold frequency, frequency of the
incident photon and cutoff potential
o Dual nature of radiation
 o Photoelectric effect
o Hertz and Leonard’s observation
o Einstein's photoelectric equation. Particle nature of light
 Atoms
o Expression of radiation in hydrogen like atoms
o Bohr's model, energy level, hydrogen spectrum
o Alpha particle scattering experiment
 Nuclei
o State and deduce radioactivity decay law
o Relation between mean life and decay constant
o Relation between half cycle and decay constant
o Decay rate or activity of a radioactive sample
o Mass defect
o Nuclear fusion and nuclear fission
o Binding energy per nucleon and it's variation with mass
number
 Electronic devices
o Communication emmiter transistor amplifier
o Comman base transistor amplifier
o Energy band in conductor, insulator and semi conductors
o Semiconductor diode (I-V characteristics in forward and
reverse biased)
o Diode as a rectifier
 Communication system
o Frequency modulation and amplitude modulation
o Elements of a communication system
o Propagation of EM waves in the atmosphere, sky and space
wave propagation, satellite communication
o Types of modulation and modulation index