Class 11 physics syllabus consists of numerous chapters under various units.
Course Structure of Physics syllabus
Units | Topics | Marks |
I | Physical World and Measurement | 23 |
1 | Physical World | |
2 | Units and Measurements | |
II | Kinematics | |
3 | Motion in a Straight Line | |
4 | Motion in a Plane | |
III | Laws of Motion | |
5 | Laws of Motion | |
IV | Work, Energy, & Power | 17 |
6 | Work, Energy & Power | |
V | The motion of the System of Particles | |
7 | System of Particles and Rotational Motion | |
VI | Gravitation | |
8 | Gravitation | |
VII | Properties of Bulk Matter | 20 |
9 | Mechanical Properties of Solids | |
10 | Mechanical Properties of Fluids | |
11 | Thermal Properties of Matter | |
VIII | Thermodynamics | |
12 | Thermodynamics | |
IX | Kinetic Theory Gases | |
13 | Kinetic Theory | |
X | Oscillation and Waves | 10 |
14 | Oscillations | |
15 | Waves | |
Practical | 30 | |
Total | 100 |
Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter–9: Mechanical Properties of Solids
- Elastic behavior
- Stress-strain relationship
- Hooke’s law
- Young’s modulus
- Bulk modulus
- Shear modulus of rigidity
- Poisson’s ratio
- Elastic energy
Chapter–10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Pressure due to a fluid column
- Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes)
- Effect of gravity on fluid pressure
- Viscosity
- Stokes’ law
- terminal velocity
- streamline and turbulent flow
- critical velocity
- Bernoulli’s theorem and its 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
- Heat, temperature, thermal expansion
- Thermal expansion of −
- Solids
- Liquids
- Gases
- Anomalous expansion of water
- Specific heat capacity
- Cp, Cv – calorimetry
- Change of state
- Latent heat capacity
- Heat transfer −
- Conduction
- Convection
- radiation
- Thermal conductivity
- Qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation
- Wein’s displacement Law
- Stefan’s law
- Greenhouse effect
Unit VIII: Thermodynamics
Chapter 12: Thermodynamics
- Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature
- Zeroth law of thermodynamics
- Heat, work, and internal energy
- The first law of thermodynamics
- Isothermal and adiabatic processes
- Second law of thermodynamics −
- Reversible and irreversible processes
- Heat engine and refrigerator
Unit IX: Behaviour 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 −
- o Assumptions
- o Concept of pressure
- Kinetic interpretation of temperature −
- RMS speed of gas molecules
- Degrees of freedom
- Law of equipartition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases
- Concept of mean free path
- Avogadro’s number
Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter 14: Oscillations
- Periodic motion – time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time
- Periodic functions
- Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equation
- Phase
- Oscillations of a spring-restoring force and force constant
- Energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies
- Simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period
- Free, forced, and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance
Chapter–15: Waves
- Wave motion
- Transverse and longitudinal waves
- speed of wave motion
- 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
- Doppler effect
CBSE Class 11 Chemistry Syllabus 2020-21
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