UNIT 1: UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS 6.

Friction
7. Static friction
Dimensional analysis 8. Rolling friction
9. Circular motion of a car on level road and banked road
Converting from one system of units to other 10. How does Newton’s first law of motion define force?
UNIT 2: MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE 11. State Newton’s second law of motion. Hence derive the relation F=ma.
12. Define 1N.
1. Define: 13. ST Newton’s second law of motion is the real law of motion.
• Rectilinear motion 14. Show that if the force acting on a particle is zero, its momentum will remain unchanged.
• Instantaneous velocity and Average velocity 15. State and prove impulse-momentum theorem. (or) Prove that impulse of a force is equal to the change
• Instantaneous Speed and Average speed in momentum.
16. What is limiting friction?
• Instantaneous Acceleration and average acceleration
17. Define coefficient of limiting friction.
• Free fall
18. What is the relation between coefficient of friction and angle of friction?
2. Derive equation of motion along with distance travelled in nth second. (Graph and calculus method)
19. What is the relation between angle of friction and angle of repose.
3. Graphs for uniform and accelerated motion.
20. Is rolling friction more than sliding friction?
UNIT 3: MOTION IN A PLANE 21. On what factors does the coefficient of friction depend?
22. Which is greatest out of static friction. limiting friction and kinetic friction?
1. Triangle law of vector addition 23. Does the force of friction depend on the area of contact?
2. Parallelogram law of vector addition 24. Define angle of friction. Show that the tangent of the angle of friction is equal to the coefficient of
3. Polygon law of vector addition static friction.
4. Types of vectors 25. Define banking angle.
5. Addition and subtraction of vectors by graphical method 26. Action and reaction are equal and opposite. Why cannot they cancel each other?
6. Vector addition is commutative, associative proof
7. Resolution of vectors UNIT V: WORK, ENERGY AND POWER
8. Scalar and Vector product of vectors.
9. Projectile motion 1. Work
• Path of the projectile 2. Work done by a constant force
• Time of maximum height 3. Work done by a variable force
• Maximum height ( Hmax) 4. Energy
• Horizontal range of the projectile 5. Kinetic energy
6. Relation between K.E. and linear momentum.
• Maximum range of the projectile
7. Work-energy theorem for a constant force
10. Uniform circular motion is an accelerated motion
8. Work-energy theorem for a variable force
11. Relation between linear displacement and angular displacement.
9. Potential energy
12. Relation between linear velocity and angular velocity in a uniform circular motion.
10. Types of potential energy (Gravitational P.E., Elastic P.E., Electrostatic P.E.)
13. Define angular acceleration. Establish its relation with linear acceleration.
11. Conservative and Non-conservative forces
14. Derive an expression for centripetal acceleration.
12. ST gravitational force is a conservative force.
15. Derive an expression for centripetal force.
13. Principle of conservation of mechanical energy
14. Conservation of mechanical energy in a freely falling body
UNIT IV: LAWS OF MOTION
15. Potential energy of a spring and graph
1. Inertia and its types
16. Define power.
2. Newton’s three laws of motion
17. Define instantaneous power. Express it as the scalar product of force and velocity vectors.
3. Momentum
18. Define one kilowatt hour.
4. Impulse
19. Define
5. Law of conservation of momentum and prove by collision method.
 • Collision 3. Principle of superposition
• elastic collision 4. Shell theorem
• inelastic collision 5. Relation between g and G
• perfectly inelastic collision 6. Variation of Acceleration due to gravity of the earth with altitude and depth
20. Elastic collision in one dimension (Derivation) 7. Gravitational potential energy
21. Perfectly inelastic collision in one dimension (Derivation) 8. Gravitational potential
22. Elastic collision in two dimensions (Derivation) 9. Escape velocity ( derivation)
23. Coefficient of restitution 10. Orbital velocity (derivation)
24. Draw a graph showing the variation of potential energy and kinetic energy with respect to 11. Time period and of the satellite
height of a free fall under gravitational force.
25. Prove that bodies of identical masses exchange their velocities after head-on elastic UNIT 8: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS
collision. 1. What is elasticity
2. What is plasticity
UNIT 6: SYSTEMS OF PARTICLES AND ROTATIONAL MOTION 3. Why railway track have a particular shape like I?
1. Obtain the relation between angular momentum and moment of inertia. 4. Stress
2. Obtain the relation between torque and moment of inertia 5. Strain
3. Write the physical significance of moment of inertia 6. Tensile stress
4. Factors on which Moment of inertia depends 7. Compressive stress
5. A body is rotating with uniform angular velocity ω about an axis. Establish the formula for its 8. Longitudinal strain
K.E. of rotation 9. Shearing strain
6. Prove I = 2 K.E.rot 10. Volume strain
7. Derive the equation of rotational motion 11. Hooke’s law
8. State law of conservation of angular momentum and give some illustrations. 12. Stress-strain curve
𝑑𝐿 13. Young’s modulus
9. Derive = 𝜏
𝑑𝑡 14. Shear modulus
10. Derive the relation between linear velocity and angular velocity v=r ω 15. Bulk modulus
11. Prove that the linear momentum is conserved in the absence of external force. 16. Poisson’s ratio
12. Prove that the velocity is conserved in the absence of external force. 17. Elastic potential energy
13. What are the conditions for translational and rotational equilibrium 18. Why steel is more elastic than rubber?
14. Discuss the motion of centre of mass of binary star(system), a fire cracker that explodes in UNIT 9: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
air. 1. Pressure
15. Derive an expression for centre of mass of two particle system 2. Average pressure
16. Obtain an expression for the work done by torque. Hence write the expression for power. 3. Pascal’s law and its proof
17. Explain how angular momentum can be expressed as the vector product of two vectors. 4. Variation of pressure with depth
how is its direction determined? (L=rpsinƟ) 5. Gauge pressure
18. Deduce the relation between torque and angular momentum 6. Absolute pressure
19. Prove that the rate of change of total angular momentum of a system of particles about a 7. Atmospheric pressure
⃗⃗
𝑑𝐿
reference point is equal to the total torque acting on a system (𝜏⃗𝑒𝑥𝑡 = ) 8. Hydrostatic paradox
𝑑𝑡
20. Derive relation between τ applied and angular acceleration produced in a rigid body and 9. Mercury barometer
hence define moment of inertia.( τ=Iα) 10. Open tube manometer
11. Hydraulic lift
UNIT 7: GRAVITATION 12. Streamline flow
13. Turbulent flow
1. Kepler’s three laws and its proof 14. Equation of continuity
2. Universal law of gravitation 15. Bernoulli’s principle and its derivation
 16. Torricelli’s law of efflux 4. Define the two principal specific heats of a gas. Explain why molar specific heat at constant
17. Define surface tension. Give its units and dimension pressure (CP) is greater than the molar specific heat of constant volume (C V)?
18. Define surface energy. Prove that it is numerically equal to the surface tension 5. Applying the first law of thermodynamics. obtain the relation between the two specific heats of a
19. Derive an expression for the excess pressure inside a liquid drop, soap bubble and air bubble. gas.
20. Define the term angle of contact. On what factors does it depend? 6. What is a thermodynamic process.
21. What is capillarity. 7. What is an isothermal process? Give an example. What are the essential conditions for an
22. Derive an expression for the rise of liquid in a capillary tube and show that the height of the isothermal process to take place? Write the equation for an isothermal process.
liquid column supported is inversely proportional to the radius of the tube. 8. Derive an expression for the work done during the isothermal expansion of an ideal gas.
9. What is an adiabatic process? Give an example. What are the essential conditions for an adiabatic
UNIT 10: THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER process to occur?
1. What is heat? 10. Derive an expression for the work done during the adiabatic expansion of an ideal gas.
2. What is temperature? 11. Limitations of the first law of thermodynamics.
3. Conversion of temperature from one scale to another. 12. Second law of thermodynamics.
4. What do you mean by absolute zero.
5. What is meant by triple point of water? What is the advantage of taking triple point of water
as the fixed point for a temperature scale?
6. What is meant by thermal expansion of a body? What are the different types of thermal UNIT 12: KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
expansion?
1. State:
7. Define coefficient of linear expansion. Write an expression for it. Give its units.
• Boyle’s law
8. Define coefficient of superficial expansion and give its units.
• Charles’s law
9. Define coefficient of cubical expansion. Write an expression for it. Give its units.
10. Derive the relation between α, β and γ. • Gay Lussac’s law
2. What is an ideal gas? Why do the real gases show deviations from ideal behaviour?
11. Discuss anomalous expansion of water. Give its importance.
3. State the assumptions on which kinetic theory of gas is based.
12. Define the terms specific heat and molar specific heat.
13. What is the effect of pressure on the melting point of a substance? What is regelation? 4. On the basis of kinetic theory, derive an expression for the pressure exerted by an ideal gas.
5. Relation between pressure and kinetic energy per unit volume
14. What is the effect of pressure on the boiling point of a liquid?
6. Show that the average kinetic energy of a gas molecule is directly proportional to the
15. What is latent heat? Give its units
temperature of the gas. Hence give the kinetic interpretation of temperature
16. What is thermal conduction?
17. State the factors on which the condition of heat through a substance depends. Obtain an 7. What do you mean by degrees of freedom? Find the degrees of freedom of monoatomic,
diatomic and triatomic gas molecules.
expression for the heat conducted and hence define coefficient of thermal conductivity and
8. State law of equipartition of energy
give its units and dimension.
9. Using the law of equipartition of energy, determine the values of C P, CV and γ for
18. What is thermal convection?
monoatomic, diatomic and triatomic gas molecules.
19. What is radiation?
10. What is meant by the mean free path of a gas molecule? Derive an expression for it. On which
20. What is a black body?
factors does the mean free path depend?
21. State Stefan-Boltzmann law of black body radiation.
22. State Wien’s displacement law.
23. P-T diagram of water and carbon dioxide.

UNIT 11: THERMODYNAMICS UNIT 13: OSCILLATIONS

1. Define the terms thermodynamic system, surroundings, thermodynamic variable and equation of 1. What is periodic motion? Give examples
state. 2. What is oscillatory motion? Give examples
2. State and explain zeroth law of thermodynamics. How does it lead to the concept of temperature. 3. Every oscillatory motion is necessarily periodic but every periodic motion need not be
3. State and explain first law of thermodynamics. oscillatory. Justify
4. What is meant by simple harmonic motion? Give some examples
5. Define the terms harmonic oscillator, displacement, amplitude, time period, frequency, 16. What are beats? What are the essential conditions for the formation of beats?
angular frequency and phase.
6. Show that simple harmonic motion may be regarded as the projection of uniform circular
motion along a diameter of the circle. Hence derive an expression for the displacement of a
particle in S.H.M.
7. Deduce an expression for the velocity of a particle executing S.H.M. When is the particle
velocity maximum and minimum?
8. Show that the acceleration of a particle in S.H.M is proportional to its displacement from
the mean position.
9. Draw displacement-time, velocity-time and acceleration-time graphs for a particle
executing simple harmonic motion. Discuss their phase relationship.
10. Derive expression for the kinetic and potential energies of a simple harmonic oscillator.
Hence show that the total energy is conserved in S.H.M. In which positions of the oscillator, is
the energy wholly kinetic or wholly potential?
11. Derive an expression for the time-period of the horizontal oscillations of a massless loaded
spring.
12. Derive an expression for the time-period of the vertical oscillations of a massless loaded
spring. Does it depend on acceleration due to gravity?
13. Show that for small oscillations the motion of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic.
Derive an expression for its time period. Does it depend on the mass of the bob?

UNIT 14: WAVES

1. Define wave motion. Give important characteristics of wave motion.

2. What are transverse and longitudinal waves? Give suitable examples.
3. Mention the important properties which a medium must possess for the
propagation of mechanical waves through it.
4. Through what type of medium, a i) transverse waves and ii) longitudinal waves
be transmitted? Give reason.
5. Derive relation between wave velocity, frequency and wavelength of a wave.
6. On the basis of dimensional consideration, write the formula for the speed of
transverse waves a) on a stretched string and b) in a solid.
7. Write expression for the speed of a longitudinal wave in a) a liquid or gas, b) a
solid and c) a long solid rod.
8. Write Newton’s formula for the speed of sound in a gas. Why and what
correction was applied by Laplace in this formula?
9. Discuss the various factors which affect the speed of sound in a gas.
10. Reflection of a wave from a rigid and open boundary.
11. State the principle of superposition.
12. What are stationary waves? What is the necessary condition for the formation of
stationary waves? What are the two types of stationary waves?
13. What is an organ pipe?
14. Describe the various modes of vibration of an open organ pipe.
15. Describe the various modes of vibration of an closed organ pipe