Syllabus : Physics
The Syllabus for JEE-2007.
General
Units and dimensions, 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 by
Searle's method, 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;
Circular motion (uniform and non-uniform); 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.
Law of gravitateion; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to
gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits.
Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment
of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum;
Torque; 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.
Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Hooke's law, Young's modulus.
Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension,
capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseiulle's equation excluded), Stoke's law;
terminal velocity, streamline flow, 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; Doppler effect (in sound).
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
monatomic 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). Black
body radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff's law, Wien's
displacement law, Stefan's law.
Electricity and magnetism
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 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 and ammeter and there
conversions.
Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Lenz's law; Self and mutual
inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.
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.
Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference limited to Young's
double slit experiment.
Modern physics
Atomic nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma 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 wave.
( Information taken from authentic information brochure.)
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