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Gravitation

<ul>
	<li>Kepler’s laws for planetary motion</li>
	<li> Newton’s law of gravitation</li>
	<li>connection between Kepler’s laws and law of gravitation</li>
	<li> calculation of gravitational field and potential</li>
	<li>calculation of variation of acceleration due to gravity</li>
	<li> calculation of escape speed and energy of satellites</li>
	<li> concept of weightlessness</li>
	<li> advantage of heliocentric system over geocentric system</li>
	<li> measurement of the radius of Earth using Eratosthenes method</li>
	<li>recent developments in gravitation and astrophysics</li>
</ul>

Properties of Matter

<ul>
	<li>inter atomic or intermolecular forces in matter</li>
	<li>stress, strain and elastic modulus</li>
	<li> surface tension</li>
	<li> viscosity</li>
	<li> properties of fl uids and their applications</li>
</ul>

Heat and Thermodynamics

<ul>
	<li>meaning of heat, work and temperature</li>
	<li> ideal gas laws</li>
	<li> concept of specific heat capacity</li>
	<li> thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases</li>
	<li> various states of matter</li>
	<li> Newton’s law of cooling</li>
	<li> Stefan’s law and Wien’s law</li>
	<li> meaning of thermodynamic equilibrium</li>
	<li> meaning of internal energy</li>
	<li>zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics</li>
	<li>various thermodynamic processes</li>
	<li> work done in various thermodynamic processes</li>
	<li> second law of thermodynamics</li>
	<li> working of carnot engine and refrigerator</li>
</ul>

Kinetic Theory of Gases

<ul>
	<li>necessity of kinetic theory of gases</li>
	<li> the microscopic origin of pressure and temperature</li>
	<li> correlate the internal energy of the gas and translational kinetic energy of gas molecules</li>
	<li> meaning of degrees of freedom</li>
	<li> calculate the total degrees of freedom for mono atomic, diatomic and triatomic molecules</li>
	<li> law of equipartition of energy</li>
	<li> calculation of the ratio of CP and CV</li>
	<li>mean free path and its dependence with pressure, temperature and number density</li>
	<li> Brownian motion and its microscopic origin</li>
</ul>

Oscillations

<ul>
	<li>oscillatory motion – periodic motion and non-periodic motion</li>
	<li> simple harmonic motion</li>
	<li> angular harmonic motion</li>
	<li> linear harmonic oscillator – both horizontal and vertical</li>
	<li> combination of springs – series and parallel</li>
	<li> simple pendulum</li>
	<li> expression of energy – potential energy, kinetic energy and total energy</li>
	<li> graphical representation of simple harmonic motion</li>
	<li> types of oscillation – free, damped, maintained and forced oscillations</li>
	<li> concept of resonance</li>
</ul>

Waves

<ul>
	<li>waves and their types (transverse and longitudinal)</li>
	<li> basic terms like wavelength, frequency, time period and amplitude of a wave</li>
	<li> velocity of transverse waves and longitudinal waves</li>
	<li> velocity of sound waves</li>
	<li> refl ection of sound waves from plane and curved surfaces and its applications</li>
	<li> progressive waves and their graphical representation</li>
	<li> superposition principle, interference of waves, beats and standing waves</li>
	<li> characteristics of stationary waves, sonometer</li>
	<li> fundamental frequency, harmonics and overtones</li>
	<li> intensity and loudness</li>
	<li> vibration of air column – closed organ pipe, open organ pipe and resonance air column</li>
	<li> Doppler eff ect and its applications</li>
</ul>