JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus 2022

·   Dimensional Analysis

·   Least count

·   Significant Figures

·   Methods of Measurement and error analysis for physical quantities on the following experiments- Experiments using Vernier calipers and screw gauge (Micrometer),  Determination of g using a simple pendulum, Young’s modules by Searle’s method, Specific heat of a liquid using a calorimeter, the focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using the u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column, Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box

·   Projectiles

·   Uniform circular motion

·   Relative velocity

·   Newton’s law of Motion

·   Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference

·   Static and dynamic friction

·   Kinetic and Potential energy

·   Work and Power

·   Conservation of Linear Momentum and Mechanical energy

·   Systems of Particles

·   Centre of Mass and its Motion

·   Impulse

·   Elastic and inelastic collisions

·   Law of Gravitation

·   Gravitational potential and field

·   Acceleration due to gravity

·   Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits

·   Escape velocity

·   Rigid body

·   Moment of inertia

·   Parallel and Perpendicular axes theorems

·   Moment of Inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes

·   Angular Momentum

·   Torque

·   Conservation of Angular Momentum

·   Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation

·   Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders, and spheres

·   Equilibrium of rigid bodies

·   Collision of point masses with rigid bodies

·   Linear and Angular simple harmonic motions

·   Hooke’s Law

·   Young’s Modulus

·   Pressure in fluid

·   Pascal’s Law

·   Buoyancy

·   Surface energy and surface tension

·   Capillary rise

·   Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded)

·   Stoke’s Law

·   Terminal Velocity

·   Streamline Flow

·   Equation of Continuity

·   Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications

·   Wave motion (Plane waves only)

·   Longitudinal and Transverse Waves

·   Superposition of Waves

·   Progressive and Stationary waves

·   Vibration of Strings and air columns

·   Resonance

·   Beats

·   Speed of sound in gases

·   Doppler effect (in sound)

·   Calorimetry

·   Latent heat

·   Heat conduction in one dimension

·   Elementary concepts of convection and radiation

·   Newton’s law of cooling

·   Ideal gas laws

·   Specific heats (Cᵥ and Cᵖ for monoatomic and diatomic gases)

·   Isothermal and adiabatic processes

·   Bulk modulus of gases

·   Equivalence of heat and work

·   First law of Thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases)

·   Blackbody radiation

·   Absorptive and emissive powers

·   Kirchhoff’s law

·   Wien’s displacement law

·   Stefan’s Law

·   Electric field and potential

·   Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field

·   Electric field lines

·   Flux of electric fields

·   Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, like to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell

·   Capacitance

·   Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics

·   Capacitors in series and parallel

·   Energy stored in a capacitor

·   Electric current

·   Ohm’s Law

·   Series and parallel arrangements of cells and resistances

·   Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications

·   Heating effect of current

·   Biot-Savart’s law and Ampere’s Law

·   Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid

·   Force on a moving charge and on a current carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field

·   Magnetic moment of a current loop

·   Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop

·   Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions

·   Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law

·   Self and Mutual inductance

·   RC, LR, and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources

·   Reflection and Refraction at plane and spherical surfaces

·   Total internal reflection

·   Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism

·   Thin lenses

·   Combination of mirrors and thin lenses

·   Magnification

·   Wave nature of light: Huygen’s Principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment

·   α, β and γ radiations

·   Laws of radioactive decay

·   Decay constant

·   Half-Life and mean life

·   Binding energy and its calculation

·   Fission and Fusion processes

·   Energy calculation in these processes

·   Photoelectric effect

·   Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms

·   Characteristics and continuous X-rays

·   Moseley’s Law

·   de Broglie wavelength of matter waves