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Physics Syllabus for Grade 11

Unit I: Physical World and Measurement

• 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

• 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
• velocitytime and position-time graphs
• relations 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 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

• 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

• Work done by a constant force and a 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)
• motion in a vertical circle
• elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions

Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

• 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

• 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

• Elastic behaviour
• Stress-strain relationship
• Hooke’s law
• Young’s modulus
• bulk modulus
• shear
• modulus of rigidity
• poisson’s ratio
• elastic energy
• Pressure due to a fluid column
• Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes)
• Effect of gravity on 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

• Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of Thermodynamics)
• Heat
• work and internal energy
• First law of thermodynamics
• Isothermal and adiabatic processe
• Second law of thermodynamics: Reversible and irreversible processes
• Heat engines and refrigerators

Unit IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory

• 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

• 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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