CBSE Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2022-2023 can be downloaded in PDF from the link mentioned below in this article. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has revised the curriculum for the current academic session. Physics syllabus has been prepared in accordance with the annual assessment scheme. Students must go through the entire curriculum and study physics according to the content mentioned in it.
Check CBSE class 11 Physics Curriculum 2022-23 below:
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement 08 Periods
Chapter – 2: Units and Objectives
Measurement requirements: Units of measurement; systems of devices; SI units, fundamental and derivative units. significant figures. Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.
Unit II: Kinematics 24 periods
Chapter – 3: Movement in a Straight Line
Frame of reference, Movement in a straight line, Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration to describe motion, smooth and non-uniform motion, and instantaneous velocity, smoothly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs. Relationships for smoothly accelerated movement (graphic processing).
Chapter – 4: Movement in a Plane
Scalers and vector quantities; position and displacement vectors, general vectors and their notations; similarity of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors, Device vector; resolution of a vector in a plane, rectangular components, scales and vector product of vectors. Movement in a plane, cases of steady velocity and steady acceleration projectile motion, smooth circular motion.
Unit III: Movement Laws 14 Periods
Chapter – 5: Laws of Motion
Intuitive concept of force, inertia, Newton’s first law of motion; momentum and Newton’s second law of motion; impulse; Newton’s third law of motion. The law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of simultaneous forces, static and kinetic friction, friction laws, roller friction, lubrication.
Dynamics of smooth circular motion: Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicles on a smooth circular road, vehicles on a tilted road).
Unit IV: Work, energy and power 14 periods
Chapter 6: Work, energy and power
Work performed by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic energy, working energy theorem, force. The notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative forces: non-conservative forces, movement in a vertical circle; elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.
Unit V: Movement of system of particles and rigid body 18 Periods
Chapter – 7: Particle System and Rotational Motion
Mass center for a two-particle system, momentum conservation and mass motion center. The center of mass of a rigid body; the center of mass to a uniform rod. Torque of a force, torque, angular momentum, law of conservation of angular momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations for rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions. Moment of inertia, radius of oscillation, values of moment of inertia for simple geometric objects (no derivation).
Unit VI: Gravity 12 periods
Chapter 8: Gravity
Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, universal law of gravity. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with height and depth. Gravitational potential energy and gravitational potential, escape velocity, orbital velocity of a satellite.
Unit VII: Properties of pulp 24 periods
Chapter 9: Mechanical properties of solids
Elasticity, stress-strain ratio, Hooke’s law, Youngs modulus, bulk modulus, shear stiffness modulus (qualitative idea only), Poisson’s ratios; elastic energy.
Chapter – 10: Mechanical Properties of Liquids
Pressure due to a liquid column; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), the effect of gravity on fluid pressure. Viscosity, Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, streamlined and turbulent flow, critical velocity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its simple applications. Surface energy and surface tension, contact angle, overpressure over a curved surface, application of surface tension ideas to droplets, bubbles and capillary rise.
Chapter 11: The thermal properties of matter
Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases, abnormal expansion of water; specific heat capacity; Cp, Cv – calorimetry; state change – latent heat capacity. Heat transfer conduction, convection and radiation, thermal conductivity, qualitative ideas about Blackbody radiation, Wein’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.
Unit VIII: Thermodynamics 12 periods
Chapter – 12: Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature zero law for thermodynamics, heat, work and internal energy. The first law of thermodynamics, the second law of thermodynamics: gaseous state of matter, change of state in gaseous form – isothermal, adiabatic, reversible, irreversible and cyclic processes.
Unit IX: Behavior of perfect gases and kinetic theory of gases 08 Periods
Chapter – 13: Kinetic Theory
State equation for a perfect gas, work done to compress a gas. Kinetic theory of gases – assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms velocity of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, the law on equilibration of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases; the concept of average free path, Avogadro’s number.
Unit X: Oscillations and waves 26 periods
Chapter – 14: Fluctuations
Periodic movement – time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time, periodic functions and their application. Simple harmonic motion (SHM) and its equations of motion; phase; oscillations of a loaded spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in SHM Kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period.
Chapter – 15: Waves
Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, velocity of traveling wave, displacement relation for a progressive wave, principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonics, strokes.
Students can also download the entire syllabus in PDF from the following link:
Check CBSE class 11 syllabus for all courses for the session 2022-2023 (PDF)