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CHAPTER 1

ELECTROSTATICS

• Electric charge
• Characteristics of charge
• Coulomb’s Law
• Electrostatic force between two charges
• Charge distribution.

CHAPTER 2

ELECTRIC FIELD

• Definition
• Electric field of a point charge
• Resultant field
• Field lines

CHAPTER 3
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL

• Energy of electric potential
• Electrical potential
• Electric potential difference
• Equi-potential surfaces.

CHAPTER 4
CAPACITORS

• Definition of capacitance
• Factors which effect capacitance
• Effect of dielectric material on capacitance.

CHAPTER 5
DIRECT CURRENT

• Drift velocity
• Current density
• Resistance
• Ohm’s Law
• Resistivity and conductivity
• Temperature dependence of resistance
• Electromotive force (emf),
• Energy and electrical power.

CHAPTER 6
DIRECT CURRENT CIRCUIT

• Internal resistance
• Terminal potential difference

CHAPTER 7
MAGNETISM

• Source of magnetic field
• Magnetic dipoles
• Magnetic force on current conductor
• Magnetic force on moving charge and its applications
• Magnetic field due to a straight current wire
• Current loop and solenoids.

CHAPTER 8
ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION

• Faraday’s Law
• Lenz’s Law
• Induced electromotive force (emf)
• Induced magnetic field
• Transformer

CHAPTER 9
MODERN PHYSICS

• Photon theory of light
• Concept of quantization of light
• Photoelectric effect and Compton effect
• Atomic structure
• Line spectrum of hydrogen atom
• Wave-particle duality
• De Broglie hypothesis
• Generation and diffraction of x-ray