BITSAT 2009 Physics Syllabus

1. Units & Measurement

1. Units (Different systems of units, SI units, fundamental and derived units)

2. Dimensional Analysis

3. Precision and significant figures

4. Fundamental measurements in Physics (Vernier calipers, screw gauge, Physical balance etc)

2. Kinematics

1. Properties of vectors

2. Position, velocity and acceleration vectors

3. Motion with constant acceleration

4. Projectile motion

5. Uniform circular motion

6. Relative motion

3. Newton’s Laws of Motion

1. Newton’s laws (free body diagram, resolution of forces)

2. Motion on an inclined plane

3. Motion of blocks with pulley systems

4. Circular motion – centripetal force

5. Inertial and non-inertial frames

4. Impulse and Momentum

1. Definition of impulse and momentum

2. Conservation of momentum

3. Collisions

4. Momentum of a system of particles

5. Center of mass

5. Work and Energy

1. Work done by a force

2. Kinetic energy and work-energy theorem

3. Power

4. Conservative forces and potential energy

5. Conservation of mechanical energy

6. Rotational Motion

1. Description of rotation (angular displacement, angular velocity and angular acceleration)

2. Rotational motion with constant angular acceleration

3. Moment of inertia, Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, rotational kinetic energy6.4 Torque and angular momentum

4. Conservation of angular momentum

5.  Rolling motion

7. Gravitation

1. Newton’s law of gravitation

2. Gravitational potential energy, Escape velocity

3.  Motion of planets – Kepler’s laws, satellite motion

8. Mechanics of Solids and Fluids

1. Elasticity

2. Pressure, density and Archimedes’ principle

3. Viscosity and Surface Tension

4. Bernoulli’s theorem

9. Oscillations

1. Kinematics of simple harmonic motion

2. Spring mass system, simple and compound pendulum

3. Forced & damped oscillations, resonance

10. Waves

1. Progressive sinusoidal waves

2. Standing waves in strings and pipes

3. Superposition of waves beats

11. Heat and Thermodynamics

1. Kinetic theory of gases

2. Thermal equilibrium and temperature

3. Specific heat

4. Work, heat and first law of thermodynamics

5. 2nd law of thermodynamics, Carnot engine – Efficiency and Coefficient of performance

12. Electrostatics

1. Coulomb’s law

2.  Electric field (discrete and continuous charge distributions)

3.  Electrostatic potential and Electrostatic potential energy

4.  Gauss’ law and its applications

5. Electric dipole

6. Capacitance and dielectrics (parallel plate capacitor, capacitors in series and parallel)

13. Current Electricity

1. Ohm’s law, Joule heating

2. D.C circuits – Resistors and cells in series and parallel, Kirchoff’s laws, potentiometer and Wheatstone bridge,

3. Electrical Resistance (Resistivity, origin and temperature dependence of resistivity).

14. Magnetic Effect of Current

1. Biot-Savart’s law and its applications

2. Ampere’s law and its applications

3. Lorentz force, force on current carrying conductors in a magnetic field

4. Magnetic moment of a current loop, torque on a current loop, Galvanometer and its conversion to voltmeter and ammeter

15. Electromagnetic Induction

1. Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law, eddy currents

2. Self and mutual inductance

3. Transformers and generators

4. Alternating current (peak and rms value)

5. AC circuits, LCR circuits

16. Optics

1. Laws of reflection and refraction

2. Lenses and mirrors

3. Optical instruments – telescope and microscope

4.  Interference – Huygen’s principle, Young’s double slit experiment

5.  Interference in thin films

6.  Diffraction due to a single slit

7.  Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (only qualitative ideas), Electromagnetic spectrum

8. Polarization – states of polarization, Malus’ law, Brewster’s law

17. Modern Physics

1. Dual nature of light and matter – Photoelectric effect. De Broglie wavelength

2. Atomic models – Rutherford’s experiment, Bohr’s atomic model

3.  Hydrogen atom spectrum

4. Radioactivity

5. Nuclear reactions: Fission and fusion, binding energy

1. Algebra

1. Complex numbers, addition, multiplication, conjugation, polar representation, properties of modulus and principal argument, triangle inequality, roots of complex numbers, geometric interpretations.

2. Theory of Quadratic equations, quadratic equations in real and complex number system and their solutions, relation between roots and coefficients, nature of roots, equations reducible to quadratic equations.

3.  Logarithms and their properties.

4. Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, arithmetico-geometric series, sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, infinite geometric series, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers.

5.  Exponential series.

6. Permutations and combinations, Permutations as an arrangement and combination as selection, simple applications.

7. Binomial theorem for a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients.

8.Matrices and determinants of order two or three, properties and evaluation of determinants, addition and multiplication of matrices, adjoint and inverse of matrices, Solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables.

9. Sets, Relations and Functions, algebra of sets applications, equivalence relations, mappings, one-one, into and onto mappings, composition of mappings.

10. Mathematical Induction

11.  Linear Inequalities, solution of linear inequalities in one and two variables.

2. Trigonometry

1. Trigonometric ratios, functions and identities.

2. Solution of trigonometric equations.

3. Properties of triangles and solutions of triangles

4. Inverse trigonometric functions

5. Heights and distances

3. Two-dimensional Coordinate Geometry

1. Cartesian coordinates, distance between two points, section formulae, shift of origin.

2. Straight lines and pair of straight lines: Equation of straight lines in various forms, angle between two lines, distance of a point from a line, lines through the point of intersection of two given lines, equation of the bisector of the angle between two lines, concurrent lines.

3. Circles and family of circles : Equation of circle in various form, equation of tangent, normal & chords, parametric equations of a circle , intersection of a circle with a straight line or a circle, equation of circle through point of intersection of two circles, conditions for two intersecting circles to be orthogonal.

4.  Conic sections: parabola, ellipse and hyperbola their eccentricity, directrices & foci, parametric forms, equations of tangent & normal, conditions for y=mx+c to be a tangent and point of tangency.

4. Three dimensional Coordinate Geometry

1. Direction cosines and direction ratios, equation of a straight line in space and skew lines.

2. Angle between two lines whose direction ratios are given

3. Equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane, condition for coplanarity of three lines.

5. Differential calculus

1. Domain and range of a real valued function, Limits and Continuity of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, Differentiability.

2. Derivative of different types of functions (polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic, implicit functions), derivative of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, chain rule.

3. Geometric interpretation of derivative, Tangents and Normals.

4. Increasing and decreasing functions, Maxima and minima of a function.

5. Rolle’s Theorem, Mean Value Theorem and Intermediate Value Theorem.

6. Integral calculus

1. Integration as the inverse process of differentiation, indefinite integrals of standard functions.

2. Methods of integration: Integration by substitution, Integration by parts, integration by partial fractions, and integration by trigonometric identities.

3. Definite integrals and their properties, Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus and its applications.

4. Application of definite integrals to the determination of areas of regions bounded by simple curves.

7. Ordinary Differential Equations

1. Variables separable method.

2. Solution of homogeneous differential equations.

3. Linear first order differential equations

8. Probability

1. Addition and multiplication rules of probability.

2. Conditional probability

3. Independent events

4. Discrete random variables and distributions

9. Vectors

1. Addition of vectors, scalar multiplication.

2. Dot and cross products of two vectors.

3. Scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations.

10. Statistics

1. Measures of dispersion

2. Measures of skewness and Central Tendency

11. Linear Programming

1. Formulation of linear Programming

2. Solution of linear Programming, using graphical method.