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Electrostatics

<ul>
	<li>Historical background of electricity and magnetism</li>
	<li>The role of electrostatic force in day – to-day life</li>
	<li>Coulomb’s law and superposition principle</li>
	<li>The concept of electric field</li>
	<li>Calculation of electric field for various charge configurations</li>
	<li>Electrostatic potential and electrostatic potential energy</li>
	<li>Electric dipole and dipole moment</li>
	<li>Electric field and electrostatic potential for a dipole</li>
	<li>Electric flux</li>
	<li>Gauss law and its various applications</li>
	<li>Electrostatic properties of conductors and dielectrics</li>
	<li>Polarisation</li>
	<li>Capacitors in series and parallel combinations</li>
	<li>Effect of a dielectric in a capacitor</li>
	<li>Distribution of charges in conductors, corona discharge</li>
	<li>Working of a Van de Graaff generator</li>
</ul>

Current Electricity

<ul>
	<li>Flow of charges in a metallic conductor</li>
	<li>Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics</li>
	<li>Carbon resistors and combination of resistors</li>
	<li>Kirchhoff ’s laws - Wheatstone’s bridge and its applications</li>
	<li>Electric power and Electric energy</li>
	<li>Heating effect - Joule’s law – applications</li>
	<li>Thermoelectric effects – Seebeck effect – Peltier effect – Thomson effect</li>
</ul>

Magnetism and magnetic effects of electric current

<ul>
	<li>Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements</li>
	<li>Basic properties of magnets</li>
	<li>Statement of Coulomb inverse square law of magnetism</li>
	<li>Magnetic dipole</li>
	<li>Magnetic field due to a dipole along axial line and equatorial line</li>
	<li>Torque acting on a bar magnet in a uniform magnetic field</li>
	<li>Potential energy of a bar magnet placed in a uniform magnetic field</li>
	<li>Magnetic properties – permeability, susceptibility etc</li>
	<li>Classification of magnetic materials – dia, para and ferro magnetic materials</li>
	<li>Concept of Hysteresis</li>
	<li>Magnetic effects of electric current – long straight conductor and circular coil</li>
	<li>Right hand thumb rule and Maxwell’s right hand cork screw rule</li>
	<li>Biot-Savart’s law – applications</li>
	<li>Tangent law and Tangent Galvanometer</li>
	<li>Current loop as a magnetic dipole</li>
	<li>Magnetic dipole moment of revolving electron</li>
	<li>Ampère’s circuital law – applications</li>
	<li>Solenoid and toroid</li>
	<li>Lorentz force – charged particle moving in an electromagnetic field</li>
	<li>Cyclotron</li>
	<li>Force on a current carrying conductor in a magnetic field</li>
	<li>Force between two long parallel current carrying conductor</li>
	<li>Torque on a current loop in a magnetic field</li>
	<li>Moving Coil Galvanometer</li>
</ul>

Electromagnetic Induction And Alternating Current

<ul>
	<li>the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction</li>
	<li>the application of Lenz’s law to find the direction of induced emf</li>
	<li>the concept of Eddy current and its uses</li>
	<li>the phenomenon of self-induction and mutual-induction</li>
	<li>the various methods of producing induced emfs</li>
	<li>the construction and working of AC generators</li>
	<li>the principle of transformers and its role in long distance power communication</li>
	<li>the notion of root mean square value of alternating current</li>
	<li>the idea of phasors and phase relationships in different AC circuits</li>
	<li>the insight about power in an AC circuit and wattless current</li>
	<li>the understanding of energy conservation during LC oscillations</li>
</ul>

Electromagnetic waves

<ul>
	<li>the displacement current</li>
	<li>Maxwell’s correction to Ampere's circuital law</li>
	<li>Maxwell’s equation in integral form</li>
	<li>production and properties of electromagnetic waves – Hertz’s experiment</li>
	<li>sources of electromagnetic waves</li>
	<li>electromagnetic spectrum</li>
</ul>