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Grade 12 - Texts

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Semester 1

Semester 2

Chapter 1 - Temperature

  • Thermal Equilibrium

  • Thermometer Scale

  • Practical Thermometer

Chapter 2 - Ideal Gases

  • SI Units

  • The Avogadro constant

  • Equation of state

  • Kinetic theory of gases

  • Kinetic energy of a molecule

Chapter 3 - Thermal properties of materials

  • Specific heat capacity and specific latent heat

  • Internal energy and the first law of thermodynamics

Chapter 4 - Gravitational and Electric Field

  • Gravitational field

  • Gravitational force between point masses

  • Electric forces between point charges

  • Gravitational field of a point mass

  • Types of force

  • Concept of an electric field

  • Uniform electric field

  • Electric field of a point charge

  • Gravitational potential

  • Electric potential

Chapter 5 - Capacitance

  • Capacitors and capacitance

  • Energy stored in a capacitor

Chapter 6 - Magnetic Fields

  • Concept of magnetic field

  • Force on a current-carrying conductor

  • Force on a moving charge

  • Measurements

  • Force on a moving charge

  • Magnetic fields due to currents

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging

Chapter 7 - Electromagnetic induction

  • ​Laws of electromagnetic induction

Chapter 8 - Alternating Current

  • Characteristics of alternating currents

  • The transformer

  • Transmission of electrical energy
    Rectification

Chapter 9 - Quantum Physics

  • Energy of photon

  • Photoelectric emission of electrons

  • Wave-particle duality

  • Energy levels in atoms and line spectra

  • Band theory

  • Production and use of X-rays

Chapter 10 - Nuclear Physics

  • Mass defect and nuclear binding energy

  • Radioactive decay

Chapter 11 - Fluid Mechanics

  • Variation of Pressure, Bernoulli's Principle

  • App. of Continuity Principle and Bernoulli's Principle

  • Surface Tension

Chapter 12 - Heat transfer and expansion

  • Heat transfer

  • Expansion

Chapter 13 - Electronics

  • The ideal operational amplifier

  • Operational amplifier circuits

  • Output devices

  • Sensing devices

  • Potential dividers

Chapter 14 - Communication 

  • Communication channels

  • Modulation

  • Digital communication

  • Relative merits of channels of communication

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