Physical World and Measurement, Vectors and Scalars: 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. Scalar and vector quantities; Position and displacement vectors, general vectors and notation; equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative velocity. Unit vector; Resolution of a vector in a plane - rectangular components. Scalar and Vector product of vectors..

Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion. Uniform and nonuniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity time, position-time graphs. Relation for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment).

Motion in a plane : Cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration, projectile motion.

Laws of Motion : Intuitive Concept of force. Inertia, Newton’s first law of motion; momentum and Newton’s second law of motion; impulse; Newton’s third la 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 : Uniform circular motion, Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on level circular road, vehicle on banked road).

Some Basic Concepts of Chemistry: General Introduction: Importance and scope of chemistry. Historical approach to particulate nature of matter, laws of chemical combination, Dalton's atomic theory: concept of elements, atoms and molecules. Atomic and molecular masses, mole concept and molar mass, percentage composition, empirical and molecular formula, chemical reactions, stoichiometry and calculations based on stoichiometry.

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Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis, least count, significant figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the experiments described below.

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 gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity | Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity | 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 | 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 | Viscosity (Poiseuille's equation excluded); 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 |

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 | Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff's law; Wien's displacement law; Stefan's law |

Coulomb's law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges | Electrical dipole and its field; Gauss's law and its application | Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; 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 and LC circuits with DC and AC sources |

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 | Diffraction due to a single slit; Polarisation of light, plane polarised light | Brewster's law, Polaroids |

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 waves |

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