Physics syllabus

General knowledge (detailed breakdown not specified in notification — indicative)

• Indian history and freedom movement
• Geography of India and Uttar Pradesh
• Indian constitution and polity
• Basic Indian economy
• General science and everyday science
• Environment and ecology
• Uttar Pradesh special — geography history culture and administration
• Current national and international events
• Current affairs of the education sector
• Sports awards and books-authors

Mechanics

• Physical world and measurement
• Vector algebra
• Scalar and vector products
• Vector identities
• Background of vector calculus
• Line surface and volume integrals
• Gradient divergence and curl
• Gauss and Stokes theorems
• Centre of mass
• Rotating frame of reference
• Coriolis force
• Motion of rigid body
• Moment of inertia
• Parallel and perpendicular axis theorems
• Moment of inertia of sphere ring cylinder and disc
• Angular momentum
• Torque
• Central force
• Kepler laws
• Satellite motion
• Geostationary satellite
• Galilean transformation equations
• Variation of mass and length with velocity
• Time dilation
• Addition of velocities
• Mass-energy equivalence
• Streamline and turbulent flow
• Reynolds number
• Stokes law
• Poiseuille formula
• Flow of liquid in capillary tube
• Bernoulli theorem and applications
• Surface tension
• Stress and strain
• Hooke law
• Elastic moduli
• Poisson ratio
• Elastic energy
• Kinematics
• Laws of motion
• Work energy and power
• Gravitation

Thermal physics

• Concept of heat
• Zeroth law of thermodynamics
• First law of thermodynamics
• Internal energy
• Isothermal and adiabatic processes
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Entropy
• Carnot cycle
• Carnot engine
• Maxwell thermodynamic relations
• Clausius-Clapeyron equation
• Porous plug experiment
• Joule-Thomson effect
• Kinetic theory of gases
• Maxwell distribution law
• Average velocity
• RMS velocity
• Most probable velocity
• Degrees of freedom
• Law of equipartition of energy
• Specific heat of gases
• Mean free path
• Transport phenomena
• Black body radiation
• Stefan law
• Newton law of cooling
• Wien law
• Rayleigh-Jeans law
• Planck law
• Solar constant
• Low temperature by adiabatic demagnetization

Waves and oscillations

• Simple harmonic motion
• Progressive waves
• Stationary waves
• Damped harmonic motion
• Forced oscillations
• Resonance
• Sharpness of resonance
• Plane waves
• Spherical waves
• Superposition principle
• Fourier analysis of periodic waves
• Square and triangular waves
• Phase velocity
• Group velocity
• Beats

Optics

• Cardinal points of coaxial system
• Combination of thin lenses
• Ramsden and Huygens eyepieces
• Huygens principle
• Conditions for sustained interference
• Young double-slit experiment
• Division of amplitude and wavefront
• Fresnel biprism
• Newton rings
• Michelson interferometer
• Diffraction by straight edge
• Single double multiple slit diffraction
• Rayleigh criterion
• Resolving power of grating and optical instruments
• Polarization
• Linear circular and elliptical polarized light
• Brewster law
• Huygens theory of double refraction
• Optical rotation
• Polarimeter
• Lasers — temporal and spatial coherence
• Spontaneous and stimulated emission
• Ruby laser
• Helium-Neon laser

Electricity and magnetism

• Gauss law and applications
• Electric potential
• Capacitors and capacitance
• Kirchhoff laws
• Wheatstone bridge
• Biot-Savart law
• Ampere circuital law
• Magnetic induction and field intensity
• Magnetic field on circular coil axis
• Electromagnetic induction
• Faraday and Lenz laws
• Self and mutual inductance
• Alternating current
• LCR circuit
• Series and parallel resonance
• Quality factor Q
• AC bridges
• Maxwell equations
• Electromagnetic waves
• Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves
• Poynting vector
• Diamagnetism
• Paramagnetism
• Ferromagnetism
• Antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism
• Hysteresis

Modern physics

• Bohr theory of hydrogen atom
• Electron spin
• Pauli exclusion principle
• Optical and X-ray spectra
• X-ray diffraction
• Bragg law
• Spatial quantization
• Stern-Gerlach experiment
• Vector atom model
• Spectral terms
• Fine structure of spectral lines
• j-j and L-S coupling
• Zeeman effect
• Raman effect
• Photoelectric effect
• Compton effect
• de Broglie waves
• Wave-particle duality
• Uncertainty principle
• Concepts of quantum mechanics
• Schrödinger wave equation
• Particle in a box
• Motion in a step potential
• One-dimensional linear harmonic oscillator
• Eigenvalues
• Lattice and specific heat
• Energy bands
• Kronig-Penney model
• Energy gap
• Metals semiconductors and insulators
• Fermi level variation with temperature
• Effective mass
• Radioactivity
• Alpha beta and gamma radiation
• Elementary theory of alpha decay
• Nuclear binding energy
• Semi-empirical mass formula
• Nuclear fission and fusion
• Elementary reactor physics
• Elementary particles
• Particle accelerators
• Cyclotron
• Linear accelerator
• Elementary concept of superconductivity

Electronics

• Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
• p-n junction
• Thermistor
• Zener diode
• Characteristic curves
• Bipolar and unipolar transistors
• Solar cell
• Diode and transistor as rectifier
• Amplifier modulator and detector uses
• Detection of radio-frequency waves
• Logic gates and truth tables