| S.No | Chapter | Whether the Chapter is selected or not | Selected Topic | Deleted Topic |
| 1. | Physical World | No | -- | Physics-scope and excitement, nature of physical laws, Physics, technology and society. |
| 2. | Units and Measurements | Yes | Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications. | Length, mass and time measurements;accuracy and precision of Measuring instruments; errors in measurement;significant figures. |
| 3. | Motion in a Straight Line | Yes | Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs, Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment), Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion. | -- |
| 4. | Motion in a plane | Yes | Scalar and vector quantities; position and displacement vectors, general vectors and their notations; equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a Real number; addition and subtraction of vectors, relative velocity, Unit vector;resolution of a vector in a plane, rectangular components, Scalar and Vector product of vectors. Motion in a plane, cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration-projectile motion, uniform circular motion. | -- |
| 5. | Laws of Motion | Yes | 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. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. Equilibrium of concurrent forces, Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, lubrication. Centripetal force road. | Dynamics of uniform circular motion: , examples of circular motion (vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked ). |
| 6. | Work Energy and Power | Yes | Scalar product of vectors. Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power. Motion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative Forces:conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies) | non-conservative forces, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions. |
| 7. | Motion of System of particles and Rigid Body | Yes | Vactor Product of vectors, Moment of a force, Torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum with sme examples. Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, Comparison of linear and rotational motions. Moment of inertia, radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects (no derivation). | Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and centre of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body, centre of mass of circular ring, disc, rod and sphere. Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.
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| 8. | Gravitation | Yes | Kepler's laws of planetary motion, universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Gravitational potential energy and gravitational potential, escape speed. | Orbital velocity of a satellite, Geo-stationary satellites. |
| 9. | Mechanical Properties of Solids | No | -- | Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity. |
| 10. | Mechanical Properties of Fluids | Yes | Bernoulli's theorem and its applications, Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise. | Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal's law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes), effect of gravity on fluid pressure. Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow. |
| 11. | Thermal Properties of Matter | Yes | Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat capacity; calorimetry; change of state - latent heat | Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, thermal conductivity, Newton's Law of Cooling |
| 12. | Thermodynamics | No | -- | Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics), heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes. Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes, heat engine and refrigerator. |
| 13. | Behaviour of Perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory | No | -- | Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done in compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equi-partition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases; concept of mean free path, Avogadro's number. |
| 14. | Oscillations | Yes | Periodic motion - time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time, periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equation; phase; energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum derivation of expression for its time period. | Free, forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance. oscillations of a loaded spring- restoring force and force constant; |
| 15. | Waves | Yes | Wave motion: Transverse and longitudinal waves, speed of travelling wave motion, 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, Beats, Doppler effect. |
