JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus

Section A

Chapter Name

Topics

General

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 - elasticity of the material Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents. 

• 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, and 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.

• 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. 

• Forced and damped oscillation (in one dimension), resonance.

• Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

• Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

• Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Kepler’s law, Geostationary orbits, Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.

• Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law;Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, drops, bubbles and capillary rise. 

• Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus in mechanics. 

• 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); Second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, 

• Carnot engine and its efficiency; 

• Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers;

• Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Electricity and Magnestism

• 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, LC and LCR(in series) circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources. 

Electromagtic Waves

• Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics.

• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses.

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.

• Diffraction due to a single slit. Polarization of light, plane polarized light; Brewster's law, Polaroids.

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. 

JEE Advanced Physics – Weightage of Chapters

Topics

No of Questions

Marks

Weightage
(in %)

Mechanics

14

43

36

Electrodynamics

12

34

28

Rigid Body Dynamics

4

16

13

Modern Physics

4

15

13

Heat & Thermodynamics

4

13

11

Optics

3

11

9

Geometrical Optics & Physical Optics

3

11

9

Electro Magnetic Induction

3

10

8

KTG & Thermodynamics

3

9

8

Electro Magnetic Field

2

8

7

Centre of Mass

4

8

7

Fluid Mechanics & Properties of Matter

3

8

7

Modern Physics

2

8

7

Nuclear Physics

2

7

6

Alternating Current

2

4

3

Capacitance

2

4

3

Current Electricity

1

4

3

Electrostatics

2

4

3

Heat Transfer

1

4

3

Error in Measurement

1

3

3

Gravitation

1

4

3

Unit & Dimension

1

4

3

SHM & Waves

1

4

3

Sound Waves

1

4

3

Total

38

120

100%

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