NEET UG Syllabus for Physics

CONTENTS CLASS XI  SYLLABUS

UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement

•      Physics: Scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology and society.

•      Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units.  Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy and precision of measuring instruments; errors in measurement; significant figures.

•      Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.

UNIT II: Kinematics

•      Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line; Position-time graph, speed and velocity.  Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs, for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment).

•      Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion.  Scalar and vector quantities:  Position and displacement vectors, general vectors, general vectors and notation, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative velocity.

•      Unit vectors. Resolution of a vector in a plane-rectangular components.

•      Scalar and Vector products of Vectors.  Motion in a plane.  Cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration- projectile motion. Uniform circular motion.

UNIT III: 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, rolling friction, lubrication.

•      Dynamics of uniform circular motion.  Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on level circular road, vehicle on banked road).

UNIT IV: Work, Energy and Power

•      Work done by a constant force and variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power.

•      Notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative forces; conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies); non-conservative forces; motion in a vertical circle, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

UNIT V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

•      Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and centre of mass motion.   Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of uniform rod.

•      Moment of a force,-torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum with some examples.

•      Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equation of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions; moment of inertia, radius of gyration.  Values of M.I. for simple geometrical objects (no derivation).  Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.

UNIT VI: Gravitation

•      Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.   The universal law of gravitation.   Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.

•      Gravitational  potential  energy;  gravitational  potential.    Escape  velocity,  orbital  velocity  of  a  satellite.    Geostationary satellites.

Please refer to the attached file for NEET UG Syllabus for Physics 2013