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IIT JEE (Advance) Physics Syllabus


General
General Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant figures;
Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the
following experiments: Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge
(micrometer), Determination of g using simple pendulum, Young’s modulus - elasticity of
the material, Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents. Specific
heat of a liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using
u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column, Verification of Ohm’s law using
voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter
bridge and post office box.
Mechanics
Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform
circular motion; Relative velocity.
Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static
and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of
linear momentum and mechanical energy.
Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic
collisions.
Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of
inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque;
Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation;
Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies;
Collision of point masses with rigid bodies. Forced and damped oscillation (in one
dimension), resonance.
Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.
Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Kepler’s
law, Geostationary orbits, Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape
velocity.
Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, angle of
contact, drops, bubbles and capillary rise. Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded),
Modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus in mechanics. Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity,
Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications. Wave
motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves;
Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance;
Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).
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Thermal Physics
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat
conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation;
Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats ( 𝐶𝑣 and 𝐶𝑝 for monoatomic and
diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases;
Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for
ideal gases); Second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes,
Carnot engine and its efficiency;
Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s
displacement law, Stefan’s law.
Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of
point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field lines;
Flux of electric field; Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field
due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly
charged thin spherical shell.
Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series
and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.
Electric current; Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells;
Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.
Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire,
along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving
charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.
Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop;
Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.
Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC,
LR, LC and LCR (in series) circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.
Electromagnetic Waves
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio
waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) including
elementary facts about their uses.
Optics
Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical
surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin
lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.
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Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double slit
experiment.
Diffraction due to a single slit. Polarization of light, plane polarized light; Brewster's law,
Polaroids.
Modern Physics
Atomic nucleus; α, β and γ radiations; Law of radioactive decay; Decay constant; Half-
life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion processes;
Energy calculation in these processes.
Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and
continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.

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