Chapter 1: Physical World
- No derivation from this chapter
Chapter 2: Units and Measurements
- Errors in measurements
- Significant Figures
- Calculating Dimensions of Physical quantities
- Dimensional analysis and its applications (Most important from this chapter)
UNIT 2: Kinematics
Chapter 3: Motion in a straight line
- Average Speed, Average velocity, Instantaneous speed, Instantaneous velocity (Numerical problems)
- Equations of Motion (Derivation using graphical method) & (Numerical problems)
- Velocity-time and Position-time graphs (Very important)
Chapter 4: Motion in a Plane
- Triangle law and Parallelogram law of Vector addition (Numerical problems)
- Equation of path of the projectile (Derivation) ( important)
- Derivations of maximum height, time, and range of projectile motion (Derivation) (Very important)
- Dot product and Cross product (Numericals) , Finding Angle b/w two vectors (Numericals)
- Uniform circular motion (Numerical problems)
UNIT 3: Laws of Motion
Chapter 5: Laws of motion
- Impulse momentum theorem (Derivation)
- Law of conservation of linear momentum (Derivation)
- Angle of repose & Angle of friction (Derivation)
- centripetal force (Numerical problems)
- vehicle on a level circular road (Expression of condition for a car to move in a circular path on a level road without skidding (Derivation)
- vehicle on a banked road:- maximum speed with which a vehicle can safely negotiate a curved road (Derivation) (Very important)
UNIT 4: Work, Energy, and Power
- Work done by a variable force (Numerical problems)
- Work-energy theorem (Derivation)
- The potential energy of a spring (Derivation)
- Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions (Derivation)
UNITS 5: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Chapter 7: System of Particles and Rotational Motion
- Centre of mass (Numerical problems) (Very important)
- Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems (Very important) (Some schools have included it, despite being deleted by CBSE in 2024-25.) So prepare Very Accordingly.
- Law of conservation of angular momentum (Numerical problems)
- Relation b/w Moment of inertia and kinetic energy
- Relation b/w Moment of inertia and torque
- Equations of motion (in rotational motion)
UNIT 6: Gravitation
- Kepler’s 3 laws of gravitation (Numerical problems) (Very important)
- The universal law of Gravitation (Numerical problems)
- Acceleration is due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth (Derivation) (Important)
- Gravitational Potential Energy and gravitational potential
- Escape velocity (Derivation & Numerical problems)(Very important)
- orbital velocity of Satellite (Derivation) (Important)
- Geo-stationary satellites
Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Solids
- Hooke’s law & Stress-strain relationship (Graph based questions)
- Young’s modulus, Bulk modulus, shear modulus of Rigidity (Numerical problems)
- Elastic potential energy (Derivation)
Chapter 10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids
- Pressure due to a fluid column (P = rho g h )
- hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes (Numerical problems)
- Effect of gravity on fluid pressure (Numerical problems)
- Stoke’s law
- Terminal velocity (Derivation)
- Critical velocity (Derivation & Numerical problems) (Very important)
- Bernoulli’s theorem (Derivation) (Most important)
- Surface energy and surface tension (Derivation) (prove that these are numerically equal.)
- Excess pressure inside a bubble (Derivation)
- capillary rise (Derivation)
- capillary rise in a capillary of insufficient height (Derivation)
Chapter 11: Thermal Properties of Matter
- Numerical based on Thermal Expansion (Alpha, beta , Gamma ratio)
- Cp- Cv = R (Derivation)
- Calorimetry (Numerical problems) (Very important)
- Thermal conductivity
- Wein’s displacement law (important)
- Stefan’s law(important)
UNIT 8: Thermodynamics
- Mayer’s formula (Cp-Cv=R) (Derivation)
- Carnot cycle and Carnot theorem(Derivation) (Very important) (Some schools have included it, despite being deleted by CBSE in 2024-25.) So prepare Very Accordingly.
- The first law of Thermodynamics (Q = W + delta U) (Numerical problems) (Very important)
- Isothermal and adiabatic processes (Graph based questions) & (Numerical problems)
- reversible and irreversible processes (Graph based questions)
Heat engine and refrigerator(Deleted in CBSE 2024-25 syllabus)
UNIT 9: Behavior of Perfect Gases and Kinetic theory of Gases
Chapter 13: Kinetic Theory of gases (KTG)
- PV= nRT (Conceptual understanding)
- Work done in compressing a gas
- Kinetic theory of gases – assumptions (important)
- Pressure exerted by a gas, on the bases of KTG (Very important)
- Relation b/w Kinetic energy and temperature of a gas
- RMS speed of molecules(Derivation) & (Numerical Problems) (important)
- Mean free path of gases (Derivation)
UNIT 10: Oscillation and Waves
Chapter 14: Oscillations
- Differential equation of S.H.M (Derivation)
- x-t, v-t, a-t Graphs (Conceptual understanding)
- S.H.M :- Kinetic Energy , Potential energy and Total energy (Derivation)
- Time period of a simple pendulum (Derivation)
Chapter 15: Waves
- Velocity of a transverse wave
- Velocity of a longitudinal wave
- Equation of plane progressive wave
- Relation b/w particle velocity and wave velocity
- Newton’s formula for the speed of sound & Laplace correction
- Standing waves in stretched strings
- Standing waves in organ pipes (important)
- Fundamental mode and harmonics
- Beats (Numerical Problems)
Doppler effect(Numerical Problems) (Deleted in CBSE 2024-25 syllabus)