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a. Section A: 15 multiple-choice questions which are simple and do not require more
than 1 concept. Each question will carry 1 mark.
3. The questions in all the three sections can be set on any part of the syllabus mentioned
below.
SYLLABUS
Physical quantities, base quantities and their units: mass (kg), length (m), time (s),
current (A), temperature (K), amount of substance (mol);
SI Units; using base units to check the homogeneity of physical equations;
Scalars and vectors add and subtract coplanar vectors; represent a vector as two
perpendicular components.
2. Kinematics
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3. Dynamics
4. Forces
Types of force, including the forces on mass, charge and current in gravitational,
electric and magnetic fields
the origin of the upthrust acting on a body in a fluid
qualitative treatmenty of frictional forces and viscous forces including air resistance.
(No treatment of the coefficients of friction and viscosity is required.)
Equilibrium of forces; vector triangle;
Centre of gravity
Turning effects of forces; principle of moments; torque.
6. Gravitational Field
gravitational field as a field of force and define gravitational field strength as force per
unit mass
Force between point masses; Newton's law of gravitation;
gravitational field strength,
potential at a point as the work done in bringing unit mass from infinity to the point.
the analogy between certain qualitative and quantitative aspects of gravitational and
electric fields.
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7. Motion in a Circle
8. Oscillations
Simple harmonic motion; simple examples of free oscillations; investigating the motion
of an oscillator using experimental and graphical methods;
amplitude, period, frequency, angular frequency and phase difference of oscillation; the
period of oscillation in terms of both frequency and angular frequency;
graphical description of the changes in displacement, velocity and acceleration during
simple harmonic motion;
the interchange between kinetic and potential energy during simple harmonic motion
practical examples of damped oscillations with particular reference to the effects of the
degree of damping and the importance of critical damping in cases such as a car
suspension system;
practical examples of forced oscillations and resonance;
graphical description of how the amplitude of a forced oscillation changes with
frequency near to the natural frequency of the system;
qualitative treatment the factors which determine the frequency response and
sharpness of the resonance.
9. Waves
10. Superposition
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Section IV Electricity and Magnetism
Practical circuits; draw and interpret circuit diagrams containing sources, switches,
resistors, ammeters, voltmeters, and/or any other type of component referred to in the
syllabus;
Conservation of charge and energy; Kirchoff’s laws and its application;
Series and parallel connection of resistors;
the use of thermistors and light-dependent resistors in potential dividers to provide a
potential difference which is dependent on temperature and illumination respectively.
the potentiometer as a means of comparing potential differences.
13 Electric Field
Concept of an electric field; and electric field strength as force per unit positive charge;
representing an electric field by means of field lines;
Force between point charges; the Coulomb’s law;
Electric field of a point charge and use of formula E = Q/4Or2 ; the field strength of the
uniform field between charged parallel plates in terms of potential difference and
separation;
Uniform electric fields; the forces on charges in uniform electric fields; the effect of a
uniform electric field on the motion of charged particles
Electric potential; electric potential at a point as the work done in bringing unit positive
charge from infinity to the point;
use of the equation V = Q/4O r for the potential in the field of a point charge;
the field strength of the field at a point is numerically equal to the potential gradient at
that point.;
14. Capacitance
Capacitors and capacitance; the farad; the function of capacitors in simple circuits;
use of the equation C = Q/V;
capacitor in series and parallel;
Energy stored in a capacitor
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15. Electromagnetism
Force on a current-carrying conductor; use of the equation F = BIl sin , with directions
as interpreted by Fleming's left-hand rule;
magnetic flux density and the tesla.
Force on a moving charge; the direction of the force on a charge moving in a magnetic
field and the use of equation F = BQvsin;
flux patterns due to a long straight wire, a flat circular coil and a long solenoid;
the forces between current-carrying conductors and predict the direction of the forces;
Section V Matter
Stress, strain; Hooke's law and the spring constant (i.e. force per unit extension); Young
modulus;
Elastic and plastic behaviour;
the strain energy in a deformed material
19. Temperature
Temperature scales; use of a physical property which varies with temperature for the
measurement of temperature and examples of such properties;
the principal features of liquid-in-glass, resistance and thermocouple thermometers as
previously calibrated instruments, and their relative advantages and disadvantages;
absolute scale of temperature; the thermodynamic scale and the concept of absolute
zero
Specific heat capacity and the principles of its determination by electrical methods;
melting and boiling in terms of energy input without a change in temperature;
specific latent heat, and the principles of its determination by electrical methods;
explanation of the cooling which accompanies evaporation both in terms of specific
latent heat and in terms of the escape of high energy molecules
the first law of thermodynamics expressed in terms of the change in internal energy,
the heating of the system and the work done on the system
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21. Ideal Gases
the equation of state for an ideal gas expressed as pV = nRT. (n = number of moles.);
the basic assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases;
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a simple derivation of p c . (N = number of molecules;
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22. Transfer of Thermal Energy
25 Atomic Structure
26. Radioactivity