Medical- XI standard Physics Syllabus for Common Entrance Exam

CONTENTS  CLASS XI  SYLLABUS

UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement

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•  Physics: Scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology and society.

•  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

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• Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line; Position-time graph, speed and velocity.  Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs, for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment).   

• Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion.  Scalar and vector quantities:  Position and displacement vectors, general vectors, general vectors and notation, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a  real number; addition and subtraction of vectors.  Relative velocity.

•  Unit vectors.  Resolution of a vector in a plane-rectangular components.

• Scalar and Vector products of Vectors.  Motion in a plane.  Cases of uniform

Velocity and uniform acceleration- projectile motion.  Uniform circular motion

UNIT III: Laws of Motion

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•  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 level circular road, vehicle on banked road)  

UNIT IV: Work, Energy and Power

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•  Work done by a constant force and 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); nonconservative 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

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• 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 uniform rod.

•  Moment of a force,-torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular

momentum with some examples.

•  Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equation of rotational motion,

comparison of linear and rotational motions; moment of inertia, radius of  gyration.  Values of M.I. for simple geometrical objects (no derivation).   Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.  

UNIT VI: Gravitation

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• Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.  The universal law of gravitation.   Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.

•  Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential.  Escape velocity, orbital

velocity of a satellite.  Geostationary satellites.

UNIT VII: Properties of Bulk Matter

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•  Elastic behavior, Stress-strain relationship. Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus, bulk  modulus, shear, modulus of rigidity, poisson’s ratio; elastic energy.

•  Pressure due to fluid column; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and  hydraulic brakes).  Effect of gravity of fluid pressure.

•  Viscosity, Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, Reynold’s number, streamline and  turbulent flow.  Critical velocity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

•  Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure,  application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.

•  Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids, and

gases.  Anomalous expansion.  Specific heat capacity: Cp, Cv- calorimetry;  change of state – latent heat.

•  Heat transfer- conduction and thermal conductivity, convection and radiation.  

Qualitative ideas of Black Body Radiation, Wein’s displacement law, and Green

House effect.

•  Newton’s law of cooling and Stefan’s law.

UNIT VIII: Thermodynamics

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•  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 the thermodynamics:  Reversible and irreversible processes. Heat  engines and refrigerators.

UNIT IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory

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•  Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas.

•  Kinetic theory of gases:  Assumptions, concept of pressure.  Kinetic energy and  temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equipartition  of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases;  concept of mean free path, Avogadro’s number.  

UNIT X: Oscillations and Waves

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• Periodic motion-period, frequency, displacement as a function of time.  Periodic functions.  Simple harmonic motion(SHM) and its equation; phase; oscillations of   a spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in SHM –Kinetic and potential  energies; simple pendulum-derivation of expression for its time period; free,  forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.  

•  Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse 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.  

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