Point to be Remembered

Chapter 1: Units and Measurements

  • Need for measurement
  • Units of measurement (fundamental and derived units)
  • Systems of units (SI, CGS, FPS)
  • Significant figures
  • Dimensions of physical quantities
  • Dimensional analysis and its applications

Chapter 2: Motion in a Straight Line

  • Frame of reference
  • Motion in a straight line (uniform and non-uniform)
  • Instantaneous velocity
  • Uniformly accelerated motion
  • Equations of motion

Chapter 3: Motion in a Plane

  • Scalar and vector quantities
  • Position and displacement vectors
  • Motion in a plane (uniform velocity and uniform acceleration)
  • Projectile motion
  • Circular motion

Chapter 4: Laws of Motion

  • Intuitive concept of force
  • Inertia and 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

Chapter 5: Work, Energy, and Power

  • Work done by a constant force and a variable force
  • Kinetic energy
  • Work-energy theorem
  • Potential energy (gravitational and elastic)
  • Conservation of mechanical energy
  • Power

Chapter 6: System of Particles and Rotational Motion

  • Centre of mass of a two-particle system
  • Momentum conservation
  • Moment of a force, torque
  • Angular momentum
  • Conservation of angular momentum
  • Rotational kinematics and dynamics

Chapter 7: Gravitation

  • Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
  • Universal law of gravitation
  • Acceleration due to gravity
  • Variation of acceleration due to gravity with altitude and depth
  • Gravitational potential energy

Chapter 8: Mechanical Properties of Solids

  • Elasticity
  • Stress-strain relationship
  • Hooke’s law
  • Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, and shear modulus

Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Fluids

  • Pressure due to a fluid column
  • Pascal’s law
  • Buoyancy
  • Viscosity
  • Stokes’ law
  • Terminal velocity

Chapter 10: Thermal Properties of Matter

  • Heat and temperature
  • Thermal expansion
  • Specific heat capacity
  • Calorimetry

Chapter 11: Thermodynamics

  • Thermal equilibrium
  • Zeroth law of thermodynamics
  • Heat, work, and internal energy
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Specific heat capacity of gases

Chapter 12: Kinetic Theory

  • Equation of state of a perfect gas
  • Kinetic theory of gases (assumptions)
  • Degrees of freedom
  • Specific heat capacity of gases

Chapter 13: Oscillations

  • Periodic motion
  • Simple harmonic motion (SHM)
  • Energy in SHM
  • Oscillations of a spring-mass system

Chapter 14: Waves

  • Transverse and longitudinal waves
  • Wave characteristics (amplitude, frequency, wavelength, speed)
  • Wave equation
  • Superposition of waves