EAMCET 2010 – Physics Syllabus Chapter 1 to 10

EAMCET 2010 covers subjects like Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. The syllabus for these subjects range from the 10th Standard to the 10+2 standard. One need to be thorough with the subject and a lot of effort is required.

EAMCET 2010 – Physics Syllabus

EAMCET 2010 – Units and Dimensions

1. Units for fundamental and derived quantities
2. Systems of Units
3. SI system of units – rules for writing unit, derived units, multiple units and sub multiple units in SI system
4. Measurement for quantitative study
5. Accuracy and precision of measuring instruments
6. Errors due to external causes – constant type, systematic type and environmental type
7. Errors due to imperfections in experimental techniques /procedure/ personal/ observation – random errors, gross errors, absolute errors, mean absolute error and relative error, percentage error; errors due to addition, subtraction, multiplication division and powers of observed quantities
8. Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional formulae, applications and limitations of dimensional analysis.

EAMCET 2010 – Elements of Vectors

1. Classification of physical quantities as vectors and scalars Geometrical representation of vectors – Addition and subtraction of vectors.
2. Laws of addition of vectors – Equal and null vectors.
3. Unit vectors – Unit vectors in Cartesian co-ordinate system – position vector and its magnitude.
4. Parallelogram law of vectors – Expression for the resultant vector.
5. Triangle law and polygon law of vectors – concept of relative velocity- application to relative motion of a boat in a river.
6. Multiplication of a vector with a scalar – Scalar product with examples of work and energy – Vector product with examples of torque and angular momentum – Vector and Scalar product of unit vectors.

EAMCET 2010 – Kinematics

1. Equations of motion in a straight line under uniform acceleration
2. Equation of motion of freely falling body, vertically projected body from ground and from a height
3. Two dimensional motion
4. Projectiles with examples
5. Path of a projectile - maximum height, time of flight and range.

EAMCET 2010 – Dynamics

1. Newton's Laws of motion
2. Concepts of inertia, momentum force, impulse and types of forces
3. Collision of two bodies in one dimension - one body at rest - two bodies moving in the same and opposite directions
4. Elastic and inelastic collisions
5. Coefficient of restitution.

EAMCET 2010 – Collisions and Center of Mass

1. Collision of two bodies in one dimension
2. Elastic and in-elastic collisions
3. One body at rest
4. Two bodies moving in the same and opposite directions
5. Co-efficient of restitution, equation for height attained by freely falling body after a number of rebounds on the floor.
6. Definition of center of mass with examples
7. Difference between Center of Mass and Center of gravity
8. Co-ordinates of center of mass
9. centre of mass of rigid body with homogeneous distribution of mass, thin rod, a circular ring, circular disk and sphere
10. Velocity and acceleration of centre of mass (Two dimensional)
11. Characteristics of center of mass – Explosion
12. Motion of centre of mass of earth-moon system.

EAMCET 2010 – Friction

1. Causes of friction
2. Static, Kinetic and rolling frictions
3. Angle of friction
4. Laws of friction
5. Lubricants
6. Motion of a body on the rough horizontal plane
7. Pushing and pulling of lawn roller
8. Expression for acceleration of a body sliding down are sliding up a smooth/ rough inclined planes (without rolling).

EAMCET 2010 – Rotatory Motion

1. Concepts of torque and couple
2. Relation between angular momentum and torque
3. Moment of inertia
4. Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems
5. Expressions for M.I.of a thin rod, uniform disc, rectangular lamina, solid sphere and hollow sphere, circular ring and solid cylinder and hollow cylinder
6. Law of conservation of angular momentum with examples
7. Motion in vertical circle.

EAMCET 2010 – Gravitation

1. Basic forces in nature
2. Nature of gravity
3. Relation between Universal gravitational constant (G) and acceleration due to gravity(g)
4. Variation of “g” with altitude, depth, latitude and shape of earth
5. Limitations of Newton’s third Law
6. Universal law of gravitation
7. Black Hole. Idea of inertial and non-inertial frames
8. Inertial and gravitational masses
9. Escape velocity, orbital velocity and relation between them
10. Geo stationary Satellites and their uses.

EAMCET 2010 – Simple Harmonic Motion

1. Definitions and examples
2. Expressions for displacement, velocity, acceleration, time period and frequency
3. Expressions for the time period of a simple pendulum and loaded spring
4. Force constant , Expressions for the KE and PE of a body in SHM
5. Law of conservation of Energy in the case of simple pendulum.

EAMCET 2010 – Elasticity

1. Elasticity & Plasticity
2. Stress and Strain
3. Hooke’s Law, Moduli of elasticity (Y, n, K)
4. Poission’s ratio – definition and its limit
5. Behavior of wire under gradually increasing load
6. Elastic fatigue, strain Energy
7. Experimental determination of Y by Searle’s apparatus.