Physics

1. Electrostatics

Coulomb's law, the electric field and potential, Gauss's theorem, capacitance and the energy stored in a capacitor.

2. Current Electricity

Ohm's law, resistivity, drift velocity, Kirchhoff's laws, the Wheatstone bridge, the potentiometer and internal resistance.

3. Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

The Biot-Savart and Ampere laws, the force on a current-carrying conductor, the moving coil galvanometer and magnetic materials.

4. Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

Faraday's and Lenz's laws, self and mutual inductance, AC circuits, resonance, power factor and the transformer.

5. Electromagnetic Waves

Displacement current, the properties of electromagnetic waves and the electromagnetic spectrum.

6. Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

Reflection and refraction at spherical surfaces, the lens maker's formula, prisms, and the microscope and telescope.

7. Wave Optics

Huygens' principle, interference and Young's double-slit experiment, diffraction at a single slit and polarisation.

8. Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

The photoelectric effect, Einstein's photoelectric equation, and the de Broglie wavelength.

9. Atoms and Nuclei

Rutherford's and Bohr's models, the hydrogen spectrum, mass defect, binding energy, radioactivity, fission and fusion.

10. Electronic Devices

Semiconductors, the p-n junction, diodes, rectifiers, the transistor and logic gates.