BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL

COMMON ANNUAL EXAMINATION (2024-2025)

SYLLABUS

CLASS: XI SUBJECT: PHYSICS (THEORY)

TEXTBOOKS:
1. NCERT PHYSICS PART-1
2. NCERT PHYSICS PART-2

S.NO. UNIT/CHAPTE SUBTOPICS WEIGHTAGE

R /TOPIC

1 Unit–I Physical World and Measurement

Chapter–2: Units and Measurements
Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of
units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. Significant
figures. Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis
and its applications.

2 Unit II Kinematics 23

Chapter–3: Motion in a Straight Line

Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line, Elementary

concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion,
uniform and non- uniform motion, and instantaneous velocity,
uniformly accelerated motion, velocity - time and position-time
graphs. Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical
treatment).

Chapter–4: Motion in a Plane

Scalar and vector quantities; position and displacement vectors,

general vectors and their notations; equality of vectors,
multiplication of vectors by areal number; addition and
subtraction of vectors, Unit vector; resolution of avector in a
plane, rectangular components, Scalar and Vector product of
vectors.
Motion in a plane, cases of uniform velocity and uniform
acceleration- projectile motion, uniform circular motion.
3 Unit-III Laws of Motion

Chapter–5: Laws of Motion

Intuitive concept of force, Inertia, Newton's first law of motion;

momentum and Newton's second law of motion; impulse;
Newton's third law of motion.
Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications.
Equilibrium of concurrent forces, Static and kinetic friction, laws
of friction, rollingfriction, lubrication.
Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force,
examples of circularmotion (vehicle on a level circular road,
vehicle on a banked road).

4 Unit - IV Work, Energy and Power

Chapter–6: Work, Energy and Power

Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic

energy, work- energy theorem, power.
Notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring,
conservative forces:non-conservative forces, motion in a vertical
circle; elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

5 Unit - V Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

Chapter–7: System of Particles and Rotational Motion
Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum 17
conservation and
Centre of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of
mass of auniform rod.
Moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, law of
conservationof angular momentum and its applications.
Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of
rotationalmotion, comparison of linear and rotational motions.
Moment of inertia, radius of gyration, values of moments of
inertia for simplegeometrical objects (no derivation).

6 Unit VI Gravitation

Chapter–8: Gravitation

Kepler's laws of planetary motion, universal law of

gravitation.Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with
altitude and depth. Gravitational potential energy and
gravitational potential, escape speed, orbital velocity of a
satellite.
7 Unit VII Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter–9: Mechanical Properties of Solids

Elasticity, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young’s

modulus, bulkmodulus, shear modulus of rigidity (qualitative
idea only), Poisson's ratio; elastic energy.

Chapter–10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids

Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal's law and its

applications (hydrauliclift and hydraulic brakes), effect of gravity
on fluid pressure.
Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent
flow, criticalvelocity, Bernoulli's theorem and its simple
applications.
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of
pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension
ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.

Chapter–11: Thermal Properties of Matter

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Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of
solids, liquids and gases, anomalous expansion of water;
specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv - calorimetry; change of state -
latent heat capacity.

Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, thermal

conductivity, qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation, Wein's
displacement Law, Stefan's law .

8 Unit VIII Thermodynamics

Chapter–12: Thermodynamics

Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature, zeroth law of

thermodynamics, heat, work and internal energy. First law of
thermodynamics,
Second law of thermodynamics: gaseous state of matter,
change of condition. of gaseous state -isothermal, adiabatic,
reversible, irreversible, and cyclic processes.

9 Unit IX Behavior of Perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases

Chapter–13: Kinetic Theory

Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a

gas.Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure.
Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms speed of gas
molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equi-partition of energy
 (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of
gases; concept of mean free path, Avogadro's number.

10 Unit X Oscillations and Waves

Chapter–14: Oscillations
Periodic motion - time period, frequency, displacement as a
function of time,periodic functions and their applications.
Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equations of motion;
phase; oscillationsof a loaded spring- restoring force and force
constant; energy in S.H.M.
Kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum derivation of
expression for itstime period. 10
Chapter–15: Waves

Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of

travelling wave, displacement relation for a progressive wave,
principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, standing
waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and
harmonics, Beats.

TOTAL
MARKS= 70

Note: There is a discrepancy between the chapter numbering in the CBSE prescribed syllabus and the
new edition of the NCERT book for the 2024-25 session. It is suggested that the subject teachers must
adhere to the chapter names and corresponding weightages as mentioned in the CBSE syllabus of
year 2024-25 also make students aware about this already existing discrepancy.

FOR CLASS 11:

THEORY (Subject Specific as per CBSE): 80 / 70 / 60 / 30 marks
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (Subject Specific as per CBSE) (Practical/Project Work/Viva): 20 / 30 / 40 / 70 marks