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JEE Advanced  2014 Syllabus  for Physics

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 gauge (micrometer),

Determination   of g using simple  pendulum,  Young's  modulus  by Searle's  method,  Specific  heat of a liquid using calorimeter,  focal length  of a concave  mirror and a convex  lens using u-v method,  Speed  of sound  using resonance  column,  Verification  of Ohm's  law using voltmeter and ammeter,  and specific  resistance  of the material  of a wire using meter bridge and post office box.

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;  Centre  of mass  and its motion;  Impulse;  Elastic and inelastic  collisions.

    Law of gravitation;  Gravitational  potential  and field; Acceleration   due to gravity;  Motion of    planets  and satellites  in circular  orbits;  Escape velocity.

   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 fixed axis of rotation;   Rolling without  slipping of rings,  cylinders  and spheres;  Equilibrium  of rigid bodies;   Collision  of point masses  with rigid bodies.

Pressure  in a fluid;  Pascal's  law; Buoyancy;  Surface  energy  and surface  tension,  capillary  rise; Viscosity  (Poiseuille's  equation  excluded),  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).

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 mono atomic  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);   Black body  radiation:

absorptive  and emissive  powers;  Kirchhoff's  law; Wien's  displacement  law, Stefan's  law.

  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 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 and

LC circuits with D.C. and A.C. sources.

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: Huygens's  principle,  interference   limited to Young's  double-slit  experiment.

Modern   Physics:   Atomic  nucleus;  Alpha,  beta and gamma  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 wave