JEE Advanced 2020 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
- 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
- Linear and angular simple harmonic motions
- Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus
- 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 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)
- Blackbody 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: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment
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