1.Concept of magnetic field, Oersted's experiment.

Moving coil galvanometer, its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and
voltmeter.
Earth s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic
substances.
Magnetic susceptibility and permeability, Hysteresis, Electromagnets and permane
nt magnets.
t. Bar magnet as an equivalent
solenoid, magnetic field lines;
LC oscillations
Quality factor
Need for displacement current,
Electromagnetic spectrum including elementary facts about their uses.
Scattering of light - blue colour of sky and reddish apprearance of the sun at s
unrise and sunset.
Optical instruments : Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and re
fracting) and
their magnifying powers.
optical fibres,

combination of a lens and a mirror

Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygen's principle.
coherent sources and
sustained interference of light

.Resolving
power of microscopes and astronomical telescope. Polarisation, plane polarised l
ight, Brewster's
law, uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids.

Basic ideas about internet, mobile telephony and global positioning

system (GPS)

atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones

mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number;,nucl
ear fission, nuclear fusion.

Hertz and Lenard's observations;

n. DavissonGermer
experiment.