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The document provides an outline of the topics to be covered in the upcoming half-yearly exam for physics. It includes electrostatics, current electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, alternating current, electromagnetic waves, optics, and the dual nature of radiation and matter. Key concepts covered are electric fields, Gauss's law, capacitance, Ohm's law, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, transformers, refraction, thin lenses, and the photoelectric effect.

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Physics

The document provides an outline of the topics to be covered in the upcoming half-yearly exam for physics. It includes electrostatics, current electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, alternating current, electromagnetic waves, optics, and the dual nature of radiation and matter. Key concepts covered are electric fields, Gauss's law, capacitance, Ohm's law, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, transformers, refraction, thin lenses, and the photoelectric effect.

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HILL TOP SCHOOL

Portion for Half-Yearly exam 2023 – PHYSICS

Electrostatics
➢ Electric Charges and Fields Electric charges; conservation and quantisation
of charge, Coulomb's law, superposition principle and continuous charge
distribution.
➢ Electric field: electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines,
electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole, torque on a dipole in the
uniform electric field.
➢ Electric flux, Gauss’s theorem in Electrostatics and its applications to find
field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane
sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.
➢ Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point
charge, a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical
potential energy of a system of two-point charges and of electric dipole in
an electrostatic field.
➢ Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a
conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarization
➢ Capacitors and capacitance, the combination of capacitors in series and in
parallel. The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor, energy stored in a
capacitor (No derivation, formulae only)

Current Electricity
➢ Mechanism of the flow of current in conductors. Mobility, drift velocity
and its relation with electric current;
➢ Ohm's law and its proof, resistance and resistivity and their relation to the
drift velocity of electrons; V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear),
electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity.
Temperature dependence of resistance and resistivity.
➢ The internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, the
combination of cells in series and in parallel
➢ Kirchhoff's laws and simple applications
➢ Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge.
➢ Potentiometer - principle and its applications to measure potential
difference, to compare emf of two cells; to measure the internal resistance
of a cell.

Moving charges and magnetism


➢ Concept of the magnetic field, Oersted's experiment.
➢ Biot - Savart law and its application.
➢ Ampere's Circuital law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire,
straight solenoids (only qualitative treatment).
➢ Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Force
on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field, the force
between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of the ampere,
torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field;
➢ moving coil galvanometer - its sensitivity.
➢ Conversion of galvanometer into an ammeter and a voltmeter.

Magnetism and Matter


➢ A current loop as a magnetic dipole, its magnetic dipole moment, the
magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron,
➢ Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) on the axial
line and equatorial line,
➢ Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar
magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines.
➢ Diamagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic substances, with examples.
➢ Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths, permanent magnets.
Electromagnetic Induction
➢ Electromagnetic Induction Faraday's laws
➢ Induced emf and current;
➢ Lenz's Law, eddy currents.
➢ Self-induction and mutual induction.
➢ Transformer.

Alternating Current

➢ Peak value
➢ mean value and RMS value of alternating current/voltage; their relation in
sinusoidal case;
➢ reactance and impedance;
➢ LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only),
➢ LCR series circuit,
➢ resonance;
➢ power in AC circuits,
➢ wattless current.
➢ AC generator.

Electromagnetic Waves

➢ Basic idea of displacement current.


➢ Electromagnetic waves, their characteristics, their transverse nature
(qualitative ideas only).
➢ Complete electromagnetic spectrum starting from radio waves to gamma
rays: elementary facts of electromagnetic waves and their uses.

Ray Optics:

➢ Reflection of light by spherical mirrors, mirror formula,


➢ Refraction of light at plane surfaces,
➢ Total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres,
➢ Refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses,
➢ Thin lens formula,
➢ Lens maker's formula, magnification, power of a lens,
➢ Combination of thin lenses in contact,
➢ Combination of a lens and a mirror,
➢ Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.

Optical instruments:

➢ Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and


their magnifying powers.

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter Wave-particle duality

➢ Photoelectric effect,
➢ Hertz and Lenard's observations;
➢ Einstein's photoelectric equation - particle nature of light.
➢ Matter waves - wave nature of particles,
➢ de-Broglie relation.

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