Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) - 2014 Indian Institutes of Technology

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JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION (Advanced) - 2014


INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY
Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur,
Kharagpur,
Madras, Mandi, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar, Varanasi & ISM Dhanbad

Announcements Physics Syllabus


Information Brochure General: Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count,
Forms for Download significant figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for
Syllabus physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments:
Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge
   Physics (micrometer), Determination of g using simple pendulum, Young's
   Chemistry modulus by Searle's method, Specific heat of a liquid using
   Mathematics calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens
   B. Arch. Aptitude-Test using u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column,
Examination Cities Verification of Ohm's law using voltmeter and ammeter, and
Data of Earlier JEE specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and
post office box.
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Mechanics: Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian
coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative
velocity.
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Newton's laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames
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any latest browser. Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration
due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits;
Escape velocity.

Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes


theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple
geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of
angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of
rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres;
Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid
bodies.

Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke's law, Young's modulus.

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal's law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and


surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille's equation
excluded), Stoke's law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation
of continuity, Bernoulli's theorem and its applications.

Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse


waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves;
Vibration of strings and air columns;Resonance; Beats; Speed of
sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

Thermal physics: Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases;


Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension;
Elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton's law of
cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic
and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk
modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of
thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases);
Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff's
law; Wien's displacement law, Stefan's law.

Electricity and magnetism: Coulomb's law; Electric field and


potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges
and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field
lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss's law and its application in simple
cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire,
uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin
spherical shell.

Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics;


Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.

Electric current; Ohm's law; Series and parallel arrangements of


resistances and cells; Kirchhoff's laws and simple applications;
Heating effect of current.
Biot Savart's law and Ampere's law; Magnetic field near a current-
carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a
long straight solenoid; Force on a moving charge and on a current-
carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic


field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter,
ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Lenz's law; Self and


mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with D.C. and A.C.
sources.

Optics: Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at


plane and spherical surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation
and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; Combinations of
mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.

Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference limited to


Young's double-slit experiment.

Modern physics: Atomic nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma


radiations; Law of radioactive decay; Decay constant; Half-life and
mean life; Binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion
processes; Energy calculation in these processes.

Photoelectric effect; Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms;


Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law; de Broglie
wavelength of matter waves.

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