AIPMT Physics Syllabus
AIPMT Physics Syllabus
Unit : 1 Introduction and Measurement
What is Physics? Scope and excitement; Physics in relation to science, society and
technology, Need for measurement, units for measurement, systems of units - SI :
fundamental and derived units. Dimensions and their applications. Others of magnitude,
Accuracy and errors in measurement - random and instrumental errors, Significant figures
and rounding off, Graphs, Trignometric functions, simple indeas of difference and integration.
Unit : 2 Description of Motion in One Dimension
Objects in motion in one dimension, Motion in straight line, unit and direction for time and
position measurement. Uniform motion, its graphical representation and formulae, speed and
velocity, relative velocity, instantaneous velocity. Unifomaly acceleratd motion, its velocity -
time graph, position-time graph and formulae. General relation between position and velocity,
application accelerated motion, Acceleration in general one - dimensional motion.
Unit : 3 Description of Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
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Vectors and scalars, vectors in two dimensions, general - vectors, vector addition and
multiplication by a real number zero - vector and its properties. Resolution of a vector in
place, rectangular components. Scalar and Vector Products. Motion in two dimensions, cases
of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration - projectile motion, general relation among
position - velocity - acceleratin for motion in a plane - uniform circular motion. Motion of
objects in three dimensional space (elementary ideas).
Unit : 4 Laws of Motion
Force and inertia, first law of motion. Momentum, second law of motion, impulse, some kinds
of forces in nature. Third law of motion, conservation of momentum, rocket propulsion.
Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rol ing friction,
lubrication, Inertial and non-inertial frames (elementary ideas).
Unit : 5 Work., Energy and Power
Work done by a constant force and by a variable force, unit of work, kinetic energy, power,
Elastic col ision in one and two dimensions, Potential energy, gravitational potential energy,
and its conversion to kinetic energy, potential energy of a spring. Different forms of energy,
mass energy equivalence, conservation of energy.
Unit : 6 Rotational Motion
Centre of mass of a two - particle system, momentum conservation and center of mass
motion. Centre of mass of rigid body, general motion of a rigid body, nature of rotational
motion, rotational motion of a single particle in two dimensions only, torque, angular
momentum and its geometrical and physical meaning, conservation of angular momentum,
examples of circular motion ( car on a level circular road, car on banked road, pendulum
swinging in a vertical plane). Moment of inertia, its - physical significance, parallel axis and
perpendicular axis theorem (statements only).
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