Grade xi
Grade XI Physics – NEB Syllabus (2076)
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🔹 Content Area: Mechanics
1. Physical Quantities
- Precision and significant figures
- Dimensions and uses of dimensional analysis
2. Vectors
- Triangle, parallelogram and polygon laws of vectors
- Resolution of vectors; Unit vectors
- Scalar and vector products
3. Kinematics
- Instantaneous velocity and acceleration
- Relative velocity
- Equation of motion (graphical treatment)
- Motion of a freely falling body
- Projectile motion and its applications
4. Dynamics
- Linear momentum and impulse
- Conservation of linear momentum
- Application of Newton’s laws
- Moment, torque and equilibrium
- Solid friction: laws and verification
5. Work, Energy and Power
- Work done by constant and variable force
- Power
- Work–energy theorem
- Kinetic and potential energy
- Conservation of energy
- Conservative and non-conservative forces
- Elastic and inelastic collisions
6. Circular Motion
- Angular displacement, velocity and acceleration
- Relation between angular and linear quantities
- Centripetal acceleration and force
- Conical pendulum
- Motion in a vertical circle
- Banking of roads
7. Gravitation
- Newton’s law of gravitation
- Gravitational field strength
- Gravitational potential and potential energy
- Variation of g with altitude and depth
- Centre of mass and centre of gravity
- Orbital velocity and time period
- Escape velocity
- Energy of satellite
- Geostationary satellite and GPS
8. Elasticity
- Hooke’s law and force constant
- Stress, strain, elasticity and plasticity
- Elastic moduli
- Poisson’s ratio
- Elastic potential energy
🔹 Content Area: Heat & Thermodynamics
9. Heat and Temperature
- Molecular concept of heat and temperature
- Cause and direction of heat flow
- Thermal equilibrium
- Zeroth law of thermodynamics
- Mercury thermometer principle
10. Thermal Expansion
- Linear, superficial and cubical expansion
- Liquid expansion
- Dulong and Petit method
11. Quantity of Heat
- Newton’s law of cooling
- Specific heat capacity
- Latent heat and change of phase
- Triple point
12. Rate of Heat Flow
- Conduction and thermal conductivity
- Convection
- Radiation and black body
- Stefan–Boltzmann law
13. Ideal Gas
- Ideal gas equation
- Kinetic theory of gases
- Pressure of gas
- RMS speed
- Heat capacities
🔹 Content Area: Waves & Optics
14. Reflection at Curved Mirrors
- Real and virtual images
- Mirror formula
15. Refraction at Plane Surfaces
- Laws of refraction
- Refractive index relations
- Lateral shift
- Total internal reflection
16. Refraction through Prisms
- Minimum deviation
- Refractive index relation
- Small angle prism
17. Lenses
- Spherical lenses
- Angular magnification
- Lens maker’s formula
- Power of a lens
18. Dispersion
- Pure spectrum
- Dispersive power
- Chromatic and spherical aberration
- Achromatism
🔹 Content Area: Electricity & Magnetism
19. Electric Charges
- Charging by induction
- Coulomb’s law
- Force between multiple charges
20. Electric Field
- Electric field due to point charges
- Electric flux and Gauss law
- Applications of Gauss law
21. Electric Potential
- Potential and potential difference
- Equipotential surfaces
- Potential gradient
22. Capacitor
- Capacitance
- Parallel plate capacitor
- Combination of capacitors
- Energy of capacitor
- Dielectric effect
23. DC Circuits
- Electric current and drift velocity
- Ohm’s law
- Resistance and resistivity
- Series and parallel combination
- Potential divider
- EMF and internal resistance
- Work and power in circuits
🔹 Content Area: Modern Physics
24. Nuclear Physics
- Structure of nucleus
- Mass defect and binding energy
- Einstein’s mass–energy relation
- Fission and fusion
25. Solids
- Energy band theory
- Conductors, insulators and semiconductors
- Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
26. Recent Trends in Physics
- Particles and antiparticles
- Quarks and leptons
- Big Bang and expansion of universe
- Dark matter, black hole and gravitational waves
Total Teaching Hours: 128 (NEB)
© PHYSICS DECODED – Based strictly on NEB Curriculum 2076