List of Important Topics for ICAR AIEEA 2025 Physics

Class 11

Physical World and Measurement

• Physical quantities, units, and dimensions
• Measurement errors and significant figures

Kinematics

• Motion in a straight line: position-time graph, equations of motion
• Motion in a plane: projectile motion, relative velocity

Laws of Motion

• Newton’s laws of motion
• Concept of friction, circular motion

Work, Energy and Power

• Work done by a constant and variable force
• Power and energy, conservation laws

Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

• Centre of mass, torque, and angular momentum
• Rotational motion, moment of inertia

Gravitation

• Universal law of gravitation, gravitational potential
• Motion of satellites, escape velocity

Properties of Bulk Matter

• Elasticity, stress-strain relationship
• Pressure in fluids, Pascal’s law, viscosity
• Surface tension

Thermodynamics

• Laws of thermodynamics, Carnot engine
• Concepts of heat, work, and internal energy

Kinetic Theory of Gases

• Ideal gas laws, concept of pressure and temperature
• Degrees of freedom, Maxwell’s distribution

Oscillations and Waves

• Simple harmonic motion (SHM), oscillations of a spring
• Wave motion, sound waves, Doppler effect

Class 12

Electrostatics

• Coulomb’s law, electric field, and potential
• Capacitance, parallel plate capacitor
• Applications of Gauss’s law

Current Electricity

• Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s laws
• Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law
• Torque on a current-carrying loop, moving coil galvanometer

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

• Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s law, self and mutual induction
• AC circuits, resonance, transformers

Electromagnetic Waves

• Characteristics and spectrum of EM waves
• Applications in communication

Optics

• Reflection, refraction, and total internal reflection
• Lenses and mirrors, optical instruments
• Wave optics: Young’s double-slit experiment, interference, diffraction

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

• Photoelectric effect, de Broglie hypothesis
• Davisson-Germer experiment

Atoms and Nuclei

• Bohr’s model, energy levels of hydrogen atom
• Radioactivity: alpha, beta, and gamma decay

Electronic Devices

• Semiconductors, diodes, transistors
• Logic gates, digital electronics

Communication Systems

• Basics of communication, modulation, and demodulation
• Propagation of signals