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Physics 11 Physics 11
UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement
- Introduction to Physics
- Scope and excitement of physics
- Physics, technology, and society
- Need for measurement
- Measurement of length
- mass, and time
UNIT II: Kinematics
- Position
- path length
- and displacement
- Average velocity and average speed
- Instantaneous velocity and speed
- Acceleration
UNIT III: Laws of Motion
UNIT IV: Work, Energy, and Power
- Notion of potential energy
- elastic potential energy
- Conservative forces: Conservation of mechanical energy
- Non-conservative forces
UNIT V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
- momentum conservation
- centre of mass of uniform rod
- radius of gyration
- Rolling motion
- kinematics of rolling motion
- dynamics of rolling motion
UNIT VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
- Poisson’s ratio
- elastic energy
- Stokes’ law
- terminal velocity
- turbulent flow
- Reynolds number
- Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications
UNIT VIII: Thermodynamics
- definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics)
- Heat
- Carnot engine and its efficiency
UNIT IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
- Kinetic theory of gases: Assumptions
- concept of pressure
- and application to specific heat capacities of gases
UNIT X: Oscillations and Waves
- frequency
- displacement as a function of time
- oscillations of a spring - restoring force and force constant
- Free, forced and damped oscillations
- resonance
- speed of wave motion
- fundamental mode and harmonics
- Beats
- Doppler effect in sound
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