Topic Wise Syllabus For Physics UPSEE Entrance Exam UG

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Topic Wise Syllabus for Physics UPSEE Entrance Exam UG :

1.) Measurement

• Dimension compatibility and significant figures.
• Dimension analysis and error estimation.

2.) Motion in one dimension

• Average velocity,
• Instantaneous velocity,
• One-dimensional motion with
• Constant accelerations,
• Freely falling bodies.

3.) Laws of Motion

• Force and inertia,
• Newton's laws of motion and their significance.

4.) Motion in Two Dimensions

• Projectile motion
• Uniform circular motion
• Tangential and radial acceleration in curve-linear motion.
• Relative motion and relative acceleration.

5.) Work, Power, and Energy

• Work done by a constant and variable forces.
• Kinetic and potential energy,
• Power
• Conservative and nonconservative forces
• Conservation of energy
• Gravitational energy
• Work energy theorem
• Potential energy stored in a spring.

6.) Linear Momentum & collisions

• Linear momentum & impulse
• Conservation of linear momentum for two particle system.
• Collisions
• Collision in one dimension
• Collision in two dimension
• Rocket propulsion

7.) Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis

• Angular velocity and angular acceleration.
• Rotational kinematics
• Rotational motion with constant angular acceleration relationship between angular and linear.
• Quantities
• Rotational energy
• Moment of inertia for a ring, rod, spherical shell, sphere and plane lamina.
• Torque and angular acceleration
• Work and energy in rotational motion.
• Rolling motion of a solid sphere and cylinder.

8.) Gravitation

• Gravitational field
• Kepler's laws and motion of planets, planetary and satellite motion.
• Geostationary satellite

9.) Oscillatory motion

• Harmonic motion,
• Oscillatory motion of mass attached to a spring.
• Kinetic & Potential energy
• Time Period of a simple pendulum
• Comparing simple and harmonic motion with uniform.
• circular motion,
• Forced oscillations,
• Damped oscillations and resonance

10.) Mechanics of solids and fluids

• States of matter young's modulus
• Bulk modulus
• Shear modulus of rigidity
• Variations of pressure with depth
• Buoyant forces and Archimedes principle
• Pascal's law,
• Bernoulli's theorem and its application
• Surface energy
• Surface tension
• Angle of contact
• Capillary rise
• Coefficient of viscosity
• Viscous force
• Terminal velocity
• Stoke's law
• Stream line motion
• Reynold's numbers

11.) Heat and thermodynamics

• First law of thermodynamics
• Specific heat of an ideal gas at constant
• Volume and constant pressure, relation between them.
• Thermodynamics process (reversible, irreversible, isothermal, adiabatic).
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Concept of entropy and concept of absolute scale.
• efficiency of a Carnot engine
• Thermal conductivity
• Newton's law of cooling
• Black body radiation
• Wien's displacement law
• Stefan's law

12.) Wave

• Wave motion, phase, amplitude and velocity of wave.
• Newton's formula for longitudinal waves
• Propagation of sound waves in air
• Effect of temperature and pressure on velocity of sound
• Laplace's correction
• Principle of superposition
• Formation of standing waves
• Standing waves in strings and pipes
• Beats
• Doppler's effect

13.) Electrostatics

• Coulomb's law
• Electric field and potential due to point charge
• Dipole and its field along the axis and perpendicular to axis.
• Electric flux
• Gauss's theorem and its applications to find the field due to infinite sheet of charge, and inside the hallow conducting sphere
• Capacitance
• Parallel plate capacitor with air and dielectric medium between the Plates
• Series and parallel combination of capacitors
• Energy of a capacitor
• Displacement currents

14.) Current Electricity

• Concept of free and bound electrons
• Drift velocity and mobility
• Electric current
• Ohm's law
• Resistivity
• Conductivity
• Temperature dependency of resistance
• Resistance in series and parallel combination
• Kirchoff’s law and their application to network of resistances
• Principle of potentiometer
• Effect of temperature on resistance and its application

15.) Magnetic Effect of Current

• Magnetic field due to current
• Biot-Savart's law,
• Magnetic field due to solenoid
• Motion of charge in a magnetic field
• Force on a current carrying conductors and torque on current loop in a magnetic field.
• Magnetic flux
• Forces between two parallel current carrying conductors.
• Moving coil galvanometer and its conversion into ammeter and voltmeter.

16.) Magnetism in Matter

• The magnetization of substance due to orbital and spin motions of electrons.
• Magnetic moment of atoms
• Diamagnetism
• Paramagnetism
• Ferromagnetism
• Earth's magnetic field and its components and their measurement.

17.) Electromagnetic induction

• Induced e.m.f.
• Faraday's laws
• Lenz's law
• Electromagnetic induction
• Self and mutual induction
• B-H curve
• Hysisteresisloss and its importance
• Eddy currents.

18.) Ray Optics and optical instruments

• Sources of light,
• Luminous intensity
• Luminous flux
• Illuminance,
• Photometry
• Wave nature of light
• Huygen's theory for propagation of light and rectilinear propagation of light.
• Reflection of light
• Total internal reflection
• Reflection and refraction at spherical surfaces.
• Focal length of a combination of lenses.
• Spherical and chromatic aberration and their removal.
• Refraction and dispersion of light due to a prism.
• Simple and compound microscope
• Reflecting and refracting telescope
• Magnifying power and resolving power.

19.) Wave Optics

• Coherent and incoherent sources of light.
• Interference
• Young's double slit experiment
• diffraction due to a single slit
• Linearly polarized light
• Polaroid

20.) Modern Physics

• Photo-electric equation
• Matter waves
• Quantization
• Planck's hypothesis
• Bohr's model of hydrogen atom and its spectra.
• Ionisation potential
• Rydberg constant
• Solar spectrum and Fraunhofer lines
• Fluorescence and phosphorescence
• X-Rays and their productions
• Characteristic and continuous spectra
• Nuclear Instability
• Radioactive decay laws
• Emission of g, b, a rays, Mass - defect, Mass Energy equivalence.
• Nuclear Fission Nuclear Reactors
• Nuclear Fusion.
• Classification of conductors
• Insulators and semiconductors on the basis of energy bands in solids.
• PN junction
• PN Diode
• Junction Transistors
• Transistor as an amplifier and Oscillator.
• Principles of Logic Gates ( AND, OR and NOT ) Analog Vs Digital communication.
• Difference between Radio and television.
• Signal propagation
• Principle of LASER and MASER
• Population Inversion
• Spontaneous and stimulated Emission.

So, this is the complete topic-wise syllabus for Physics UPSEE Entrance Exam UG which a candidate needs to consider for the exam preparation. All the questions asked in the UPSEE Exam would be based on these topics only.

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