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PHYSICS
SYLLABUS FOR HIGHER SECONDARY FIRST YEAR COURSE

Higher Secondary stage of school education is a stage of transition from general education to
discipline - based focus on curriculum. The present updated syllabus keeps in view the rigour and depth
of disciplinary approach as well as the comprehension level of learners. Due care has also been taken
that the syllabus is comparable to the international standards. Salient features of the syllabus include:
• Emphasis on basic conceptual understanding of the content.
• Emphasis on use of Sl units, symbols, nomenclature of physical quantities and formulations as
per international standards.
• Providing logical sequencing of units of the subject matter and proper placement of concepts
with their linkage for better learning.
• Reducing the curriculum load by eliminating overlapping of concepts/content within the discipline
and other disciplines.
• Promotion of process-skills, problem-solving abilities and applications of physics concept.
Besides, the syllabus also attempts to
• strengthen the concepts developed at the secondary stage to provide firm foundation for further
learning in the subject.
• expose the learners to different processes used in Physics-related industrial and technological
applications.
• develop process-skills and experimental, observational, manipulative, decision making and
investigatory skills in the learners.
• promote problem solving abilities and creative thinking in learners.
• develop conceptual campetence in the learners and make them realize appreciate the interface
of physics with other disciplines.

No. of Periods Marks

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Unit - I Physical World and Measurement
Chapter - 1 : Physical World 10
Chapter - 2 : Units and Measurements
Unit - II Kinematics
Chapter - 3 : Motion in a Straight Line 24 23
Chapter - 4 : Motion in a Plane
Unit - III Laws of Motion
Chapter - 5 : Laws of Motion 14

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Units - IV Work, Energy and Power 12
Chapter - 6 : Work, Energy and Power
Units - V Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body 18 17
Chapter - 7 : System of Particles and Rotational Motion
Units - VI Gravitation 12
Chapter - 8 : Gravitation
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Units - VII Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter - 9 : Mechanical Properties of Solids 24
Chapter - 10 : Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Chapter - 11 : Thermal Properties of Matter
Units - VIII Thermodynamics 12 20
Chapter - 12 : Thermodynamics
Units - IX Behaviour of perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases 08
Chapter - 13 : Kinetic Theory

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Units - X Oscillations and Waves
Chapter - 14 : Oscillations 26 10
Chapter - 15 : Waves
160 70

Unit-I : Physical World and Measurement

Chapter - 1 : Physical World
Physics - scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology and society.
Chapter - 2 : Units and Measurements
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
Chapter - 3 : Motion in a Straight Line
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
non uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniformly accelerated motion,
velocity - time and position time graphs.
Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment)
Chapter - 4 : Motion in a Plane
Scalar and vector quantities; position and displacement vectors, general vectors and their
notations; 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.
Motion in a plane, cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration-projectile motion,
uniform circular motion.
Units-III : Laws of Motion
Chapter - 5 : 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 friction, rolling friction,
lubrication
Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle
on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road).
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Units-IV : Work Energy and power
Chapter - 6 : 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); non-conservative forces : motion in
a vertical circle; elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.
Units-V : Motion of System of particles and Rigid Body
Chapter - 7 : System of Particles and Rotational Motion
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 a uniform rod.
Moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, law of conservation of angular momentum
and its applications.
Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison
of linear and rotational motions.
Moment of inertia, radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical
objects (no derivation). Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their
applications.
Units-VI : Gravitation
Chapter - 8 : Gravitation
Kepler's laws of planetary motion, universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity
and its variation with altitude and depth.
Gravitational potential energy and gravitational potential, escape velocity, orbital velocity of
a satellite, geo-stationary satellites.
Unit-VII : Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter - 9 : Mechanical Properties of Solids
Elastic behaviour, Stress - strain relationship, Hooke's law, young's modulus, bulk modulus,
shear modulus of rigidity, Poisson’s ratio; elastic energy.
Chapter - 10 : Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Pressure due to a fluid columm; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic
brakes), effect of gravity on fluid pressure.
Viscosity, Stoke’s law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, critical velocity,
Bernoulli's theorem and its applications.
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved
surface, applications of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
Chapter - 11 : Thermal Properties of Matter
Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases,
anomalous expansion of water; specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv - calorimetry; change of
state latent heat capacity.
Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, thermal conductivity, qualitative ideas
of Blackbody radiation, Wein's displacement Law, Stefan's law, Green house effect.
Unit-VIII : Thermodynamics
Chapter - 12 : Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics), heat,
work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes.
Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes, heat engine and
refrigerator.
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Unit-IX : Behaviour of perfect gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases
Chapter - 13 : Kinetic Theory
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a gas.
Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of
temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equi-partition 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
Chapter - 14 : Oscillations
Periodic motion - time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time, Periodic
functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equation; phase; oscillations of a loaded
spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies;
simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period.
Free, forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
Chapter - 15 : Waves
Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of travelling wave, 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.

PRACTICALS
The record, to be submitted by the students, at the time of their annual examination, has to include:
• Record of at least 15 Experiments [with a minimum of 6 from each section], to be performed
by the students.
• Record of at least 5 Activities [with a minimum of 2 each from section A and section B], to be
demonstrated by the teachers.
• Report of the project to be carried out by the students.

EVALUATION SCHEME

Time Allowed: Three hours Max. Marks: 30

Two experiments one from each section 8+8 Marks
Practical record (experiment and activities) 6 Marks
Investigatory Project 3 Marks
Viva on experiments, activities and project 5 Marks
Total 30 Marks

SYLLABUS FOR PHYSICS PRACTICAL

Total Marks-30
Section-A
Experiments:
1. Use of Vernier Callipers
(i) To measure diameter of a small spherical/cylindrical body.
(ii) To measure dimensions of a given regular body of known mass and hence find its density.
(iii) To measure internal diameter and depth of a given beaker/calorimeter and hence find its volume.
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2. Use of screw gauge.
(i) To measure diameter of a given wire.
(ii) To measure thickness of a given sheet.
(iii) To measure volume of an irreguler lamina.
3. To determine redius of curvature of a given spherical surface by a spherometer.
4. To determine the mass of two different objects using a beam balance.
5. To fmd the weight of a given body using parallelogram law of vectors.
6. Using a simple pendulum, plot L- T and L-T2 graphs. Hence fmd the effective length of a second's
pendulum using appropriate graphs.
7. To study the relationship between force of limiting friction and normal reaction and find the coefficient
of friction between a block and a horizontal surface.
8. To fmd the downward force, along an inclined plane, acting on a roller due to gravitational pull of the
earth and study its relationship with the angle of inclination by plotting graph between force and inq.

Activities :

1. To make a paper scale of given least count, e.g. O.2cm. O.5cm.

2. To determine mass of a given body using a meter scale by principle of moments.
3. To plot of graph for a given set of data, with proper choice of scales and error bars.
4. To measure the force of limiting friction for rolling of a roller on a horizontal plane.
5. To study the variation in the range of a jet of water with the angle of projection.
6. To study the conservation of energy of a ball rolling down on inclined plane (using a double inclined
plane).
7. To study dissipation of energy of a simple pendulum by plotting a graph between square of amplitude
and time.
Section-B
Experiments :

1. To determine young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a given wire.

2. To fmd the force constant and effective mass of a helical spring by plotting T2-m graph method of
oscillation.
3. To study the variation in volume with pressure for a sample of air at constant temperature by plotting
graphs between P and V, and between P and 1/V.
4. To determine the surface tension of water by capillary rise method.
5. To determine the coefficient of viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of
a given spherical body.
6. To study the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time by plotting a cooling curve.
7. (i) To study the relation between frequency and length of a given wire under constant tension using
sonometer.
(ii) To study the relation between the length of a given wire tension for constant frequency using
sonometer
8. To find the speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube by two resonance
position.
9. To determine specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid (ii) liquid, by method of mixtures.
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Activities :

1. To observe change of state and plot a cooling curve for molten wax.
2. To observe and explain the effect of heating on a bi-metallic strip.
3. To note the change in level of liquid in a container on heating and interpret the observation.
4. To study the effect of detergent on surface tension of water by observing capillary rise.
5. To study the factors affecting the rate of loss of heat of a liquid.
6. To study the effect of load on depression of a suitably clamped meter scale loaded
(i) at its end
(ii) in the middle.

Prescribed Textbook : 1. Physics Part-I, Textbook for Class XI, Published by NCERT.
2. Physics Part-II, Textbook for Class XI, Published by NCERT.
3. Laboratory Manual of Physics, Class XI, Published by NCERT.
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2. ¬Û√±Ô« ø¬ı:±Ú, ø¡ZÓ¬œ˚˛ ‡G, Published by AHSEC.