Physics

Ten Plus Two (+2) Science · Grade 12

16 units 48 topics 5 credit hours

Electricity, magnetism, optics and modern physics.

UnitChapter & topics
1

Electrostatics

  • • Coulomb's law and electric field
  • • Gauss's law
  • • Electric potential
2

Capacitors

  • • Capacitance
  • • Series and parallel combinations
  • • Energy stored
3

Electric Current & Resistance

  • • Ohm's law
  • • Kirchhoff's rules
  • • Wheatstone bridge and potentiometer
4

Magnetic Field & Forces

  • • Force on moving charges
  • • Biot-Savart law
  • • Ampere's law
5

Magnetic Materials & Earth's Magnetism

  • • Dia, para and ferromagnetism
  • • Hysteresis
  • • Elements of earth magnetism
6

Electromagnetic Induction

  • • Faraday's law
  • • Lenz's law
  • • Self and mutual inductance
7

Alternating Currents

  • • RMS values
  • • LCR circuits and resonance
  • • Transformers
8

Reflection at Curved Mirrors

  • • Mirror formula
  • • Magnification
  • • Sign conventions
9

Refraction through Lenses & Prisms

  • • Lens formula
  • • Dispersion
  • • Spectrometer measurements
10

Optical Instruments

  • • Human eye and defects
  • • Microscope
  • • Telescope
11

Wave Optics

  • • Interference - Young's experiment
  • • Diffraction
  • • Polarisation
12

Photoelectric Effect

  • • Quantum nature of light
  • • Einstein's equation
  • • Work function experiments
13

Atomic Models

  • • Bohr model of hydrogen
  • • Spectral series
  • • X-ray production basics
14

The Nucleus

  • • Nuclear composition and binding energy
  • • Mass defect
  • • Fission and fusion
15

Radioactivity

  • • Alpha, beta and gamma decay
  • • Half-life and activity
  • • Radiation safety
16

Semiconductors & Devices

  • • P-N junction diodes
  • • Rectifiers
  • • Transistors as amplifiers and switches