Physics XII Topic list
Chapters
Chapter 1
Electric
Charges and Fields
Chapter 2
Electrostatic Potential
and Capacitance
Chapter 3
Current Electricity
Chapter 4
Moving Charges
and Magnetism
Chapter 5
Magnetism
and Matter
Chapter 6
Electromagnetic
Induction
Chapter 7
Alternating Current
Chapter 8
Electromagnetic
Waves
Chapter 9
Ray Optics and
Optical Instruments
Chapter 10
Wave Optics
Chapter 11
Dual Nature of
Radiation and Matter
Chapter 12
Atoms
Chapter 13
Nuclei
Chapter 13
Nuclei
Chapter 14
Semiconductor
Electronics : Materials,
Devices and Simple
Circuits
Physics XII Topic list
Topic
1.1 ELECTRIC CHARGE AND BASIC PROPERTIES OF ELECTRIC CHARGE
1.1.1 Additivity of charges
1.1.2 Charge is conserved
1.1.3 Quantisation of charge
1.2 CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
1.3 COULOMB’S LAW
1.4 FORCES BETWEEN MULTIPLE CHARGES
1.5 ELECTRIC FIELD AND ELECTRIC FIELD LINES
1.5.1 Electric field due to a system of charges
1.5.2 Physical significance of electric field
1.6 ELECTRIC FLUX
1.7 ELECTRIC DIPOLE AND DIPOLE IN A UNIFORM EXTERNAL FIELD
1.7.1 The field of an electric dipole (i) For
points on the axis (ii) For points
on the equatorial plane
1.7.2 Physical significance of dipoles
1.8 CONTINUOUS CHARGE DISTRIBUTION
1.9 GAUSS’S LAW AND APPLICATIONS OF GAUSS’S LAW
1.9.1 Field due to an infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire
1.9.2 Field due to a uniformly charged infinite plane sheet
1.9.3 Field due to a uniformly charged thin spherical shell (i)
Field outside the shell (ii) Field
inside the shell
2.1 ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL
2.1.1 Potential Due To A Point Charge
2.1.2 Potential Due To An Electric Dipole
2.1.3 Potential Due To A System Of Charges
2.2 EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES
2.2.1 Relation between field and potential
2.3 POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM OF CHARGES
2.4 POTENTIAL ENERGY IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD
2.4.1 Potential energy of a single charge
2.4.2 Potential energy of a system of two charges in an external field
2.4.3 Potential energy of a dipole in an external field
2.5 ELECTROSTATICS OF CONDUCTORS
2.6 DIELECTRICS AND POLARISATION
2.7 CAPACITORS AND CAPACITANCE
2.7.1 The Parallel Plate Capacitor
2.7.2 Effect Of Dielectric On Capacitance
2.7.3 Combination Of Capacitors (I)
Capacitors In Series (Ii)
Capacitors In Parallel
2.7.4 ENERGY STORED IN A CAPACITOR
3.1 ELECTRIC CURRENT AND ELECTRIC CURRENTS IN CONDUCTORS
3.2 OHM’S LAW AND LIMITATIONS OF OHM’S LAW
3.3 RESISTIVITY OF VARIOUS MATERIALS
3.3.1 Temperature Dependence Of Resistivity
3.4 DRIFT OF ELECTRONS AND THE ORIGIN OF RESISTIVITY
3.4.1 Mobility
3.5 ELECTRICAL ENERGY, POWER
3.6 CELLS, EMF, INTERNAL RESISTANCE
3.6.1 Cells In Series
3.6.1 Cells In Parallel
3.7 KIRCHHOFF’S RULES
3.8 WHEATSTONE BRIDGE
4.1 MAGNETIC FORCE
4.1.1 Sources and fields
4.1.2 Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force
4.1.3 Magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor
4.2 MOTION IN A MAGNETIC FIELD
4.3 MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT ELEMENT, BIOT-SAVART LAW
4.4 MAGNETIC FIELD ON THE AXIS OF A CIRCULAR CURRENT LOOP
4.5 AMPERE’S CIRCUITAL LAW
4.6 THE SOLENOID
4.7 FORCE BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL CURRENTS,
4.8 TORQUE ON CURRENT LOOP, MAGNETIC DIPOLE
4.8.1 Torque on a rectangular current loop in a uniform magnetic field
4.8.1 Torque on a rectangular current loop in a uniform magnetic field
4.8.2 Circular current loop as a magnetic dipole
4.9 THE MOVING COIL GALVANOMETER
5.1 THE BAR MAGNET
5.1.1 The magnetic field lines
5.1.2 Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid
5.1.3 The dipole in a uniform magnetic field
5.1.4 The electrostatic analog
5.2 MAGNETISM AND GAUSS’S LAW
5.3 MAGNETISATION AND MAGNETIC INTENSITY
5.4 MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS
5.4.1 Diamagnetism
5.4.2 Paramagnetism
5.4.3 Ferromagnetism
6.1 THE EXPERIMENTS OF FARADAY AND HENRY
6.2 MAGNETIC FLUX
6.3 FARADAY’S LAW OF INDUCTION
6.4 LENZ’S LAW AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
6.5 MOTIONAL ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE
6.6 INDUCTANCE
6.6.1 Mutual inductance
6.6.2 Self-inductance
6.7 AC GENERATOR
7.1 AC VOLTAGE APPLIED TO RESISTOR, INDUCTOR AND CAPACITOR
7.2 AC VOLTAGE APPLIED TO A SERIES LCR CIRCUIT
7.2.1 Phasor-diagram solution
7.2.2 Resonance
7.3 POWER IN AC CIRCUIT: THE POWER FACTOR
7.4 TRANSFORMERS
8.1 DISPLACEMENT CURRENT
8.2 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
8.2.1 Sources of electromagnetic waves
8.2.2 Nature of electromagnetic waves
8.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
8.3.1 Radio waves
8.3.2 Microwaves
8.3.3 Infrared waves
8.3.4 Visible rays
8.3.5 Ultraviolet rays
8.3.6 X-rays
8.3.7 Gamma rays
9.1 REFLECTION OF LIGHT BY SPHERICAL MIRRORS
9.1.1 Sign convention
9.1.2 Focal length of spherical mirrors
9.1.3 The mirror equation
9.2 REFRACTION AND TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
9.2.1 Total internal reflection in nature and its technological applications
9.3 REFRACTION AT SPHERICAL SURFACES AND BY LENSES
9.3.1 Refraction at a spherical surface
9.3.2 Refraction by a lens
9.3.3 Power of a lens
9.3.4 Combination of thin lenses in contact
9.4 REFRACTION THROUGH A PRISM
9.5 OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
9.5.1 The microscope
9.5.2 Telescope
10.1 HUYGENS PRINCIPLE
10.2 REFRACTION AND REFLECTION OF PLANE WAVES USING HUYGENS
PRINCIPLE
10.2.1 Refraction of a plane wave
10.2.2 Refraction at a rarer medium
10.2.3 Reflection of a plane wave by a plane surface
10.3 COHERENT AND INCOHERENT ADDITION OF WAVES
10.4 INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT WAVES AND YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT
10.5 DIFFRACTION
10.5.1 The single slit
10.5.2 Seeing the single slit diffraction pattern
10.6 POLARISATION
11.1 ELECTRON EMISSION
11.2 PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT
11.2.1 Hertz’s observations
11.2.2 Hallwachs’ and Lenard’s observations
11.2.3 Effect of intensity of light on photocurrent
11.2.4 Effect of potential on photoelectric current
11.2.5 Effect of frequency of incident radiation on stopping potential
11.2 PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT AND WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT
11.3 EINSTEIN’S PHOTOELECTRIC EQUATION
11.4 DUAL NATURE ( WAVE AND PARTICLE NATURE) OF PHOTONS AND
ELECTRONS
12.1 ALPHA-PARTICLE SCATTERING AND RUTHERFORD’S NUCLEAR MODEL OF
ATOM
12.1.1 Alpha-particle trajectory
12.1.2 Electron orbits
12.2 ATOMIC SPECTRA
12.3 BOHR MODEL OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM
12.3.1 Energy levels
12.4 THE LINE SPECTRA OF THE HYDROGEN ATOM
12.5 DE BROGLIE’S EXPLANATION OF BOHR’S SECOND POSTULATE OF
QUANTISATION
13.1 ATOMIC MASSES,COMPOSITION OF NUCLEUS AND SIZE OF THE NUCLEUS
13.2 MASS-ENERGY AND NUCLEAR BINDING ENERGY
13.2.1 Mass – Energy
13.2.2 Nuclear binding energy
13.3 NUCLEAR FORCE
13.4 RADIOACTIVITY
13.5 NUCLEAR ENERGY
13.5.1 Fission
13.5.2 Nuclear fusion – energy generation in stars
13.5.3 Controlled thermonuclear fusion
14.1
14.2 CLASSIFICATION OF METALS, AND
INTRINSIC SEMICONDUCTOR CONDUCTORS
EXTRINSICAND SEMICONDUCTORS
SEMICONDUCTOR
14.2.1 n-type semiconductor
14.2.2 p-type semiconductor
14.3 p-n JUNCTION
14.3.1 p-n junction formation
14.4 SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE
14.4.1 p-n junction diode under forward bias
14.4.2 p-n junction diode under reverse bias
14.5 APPLICATION OF JUNCTION DIODE AS A RECTIFIER