PHYSICS Syllabus for JEE (Advanced)
1. General
General units and dimensions, dimensional analysis, least count, significant figures, methods of
measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments:
Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauges (micrometers), determination of g using a simple pendulum, Young’s modulus—elasticity of the material Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents. Specific heat of a liquid using a calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using the u-v method, Speed of sound using a resonance column,
Verification of Ohm’s law using a voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using a meter bridge and post office box.
2. Mechanics
Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; uniform circular
motion; relative velocity.
Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static and
dynamic friction; kinetic and potential energy; work and power; Conservation of linear
momentum and mechanical energy.
Systems of particles; center of mass and its motion; impulse; elastic and inelastic collisions.
Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of
uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of
angular momentum; dynamics of rigid bodies with a fixed axis of rotation; rolling without slipping
of rings, cylinders, and spheres; equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid
bodies. Forced and damped oscillation (in one dimension), resonance.
Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.
Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.
Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Kepler’s law,
Geostationary orbits, Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; escape velocity.
Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy, surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus in mechanics. Stoke’s law; terminal velocity, streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem, and its applications. Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; resonance; beats; speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound)
3. Thermal Physics
Thermal expansion of solids, liquids, and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases); the second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot engine and its efficiency; Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers;
Kirchhoff’s law, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.
4. Electricity and Magnetism
Coulomb’s law; electric field and potential; electrical potential energy of a system of point
charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; electric field lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as to find the field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet, and uniformly charged thin spherical shell. Capacitance; parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.
Electric current; Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; heating effect of current.
Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law; magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along
the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; force on a moving charge and on a
current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.
Magnetic moment of a current loop; effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; moving
coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter, and their conversions.
Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; self and mutual inductance; RC, LR, LC.
and LCR (in series) circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.
5. Electromagnetic Waves
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves,
microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays, including elementary facts about their uses.
6. Optics
Rectilinear propagation of light; reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces; Total
internal reflection; deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; combinations of
mirrors and thin lenses; magnification.
Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.
Diffraction due to a single slit. Polarization of light, plane polarized light, Brewster's law,
Polaroids.
7. Modern Physics
Atomic nucleus; α, β, and γ radiations; Law of radioactive decay; Decay constant; half-life and
mean life; binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion processes; energy calculation in
these processes.
Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays,
Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.
