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E. Electricity
and
Magnetism
17.5 Equipotential
surfaces
18. Capacitors
18.1 Capacitance
18.2 Parallel plate
capacitor
18.3 Uniform field
between parallel
plates
18.4 Capacitors in
series and in parallel
18.5 Energy stored in
a charged capacitor
Week
Notes
1 & 2 Topical test on
thermal
conduction on
Week 1
F
q
Week 5 is CNY
holidays
19.5 Resistivity
19.6 Dependence of
resistance on
temperature
19.7 Energy and
electrical power
21.3 Force on a
current-carrying
conductor
21.4 Magnetic fields
due to currents
11
circular loop, B
0 NI
2r
First exam is on
Week 10
solenoid, B 0 nI
straight wire, B
0 I
2d
21.8 Determination of
q
the ratio
m
21.9 Hall effect
22. Electromagnetic
induction
22.1 Magnetic flux
22.2 Faradays law
and Lenzs law
22.3 Self-inductance
L
22.6 Transformer
22.7 Back emf in dc
motors
23. Alternating
currents
F 0 I1 I 2
l
2d
12
13
14
23.1 Alternating
currents through
resistors
23.2 Power
23.3 Rms value
23.4 Alternating
currents through
inductors
23.5 Alternating
currents through
capacitors
23.6 Rectification of
alternating currents
23.7 Smoothing by
capacitors
24. Electronics
24.1 Operational
amplifiers
24.2 Inverting and
non-inverting
amplifiers
24.3 Negative
feedback
24.4 Use of
operational amplifiers
24.5 Oscillators
F. Optics
25. Electromagnetic
waves
25.1 Electromagnetic
vibrations
25.2 Relationship
between 0 , 0 and
c
25.3 Electromagnetic
wave spectrum
26. Geometrical
optics
26.1 Curved mirrors
I0
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for
sinusoidal cases
b) understand the relationship of phase
between current and voltage for pure
resistors, pure capacitors, and pure
inductors separately
c) derive the reactance of a pure capacitor
and a pure inductor
d) derive and use the formula for power in
an alternating current circuit which consists
of a pure resistor, a pure capacitor, and a
pure inductor separately
e) explain half-wave rectification and fullwave rectification with the use of diodes
f) explain smoothing of output voltages by
capacitors
15
15
16
16
17
1 1 1
for
f
u v
curved mirrors
d) derive and use the formula
26.2 Refraction at
curved surfaces
26.3 Thin lenses
n1 n 2 n 2 n1
n1 n 2 n 2 n1
to
u
v
r
derive:
1 1 1
f
u v
f
r
r
1
2
27.6 Diffraction at
single slit
27.7 Diffraction
gratings
27.8 Polarisation
18
19
Second exam
on Week 20
28. Photons
28.1 Photoelectric
effect
28.2 Concept of light
quantisation
29. Wave-particle
duality
29.1 De Broglies
relation
29.2 Electron
diffraction
H. Atomic
Physics
h
to calculate de
p
31. X-ray
31.1 X-ray spectra
22
Broglies wavelength
b) describe observations in electron
diffraction experiments
c) explain briefly the advantages of electron
microscopes
a) state Bohrs postulate for an atom
b) derive an expression for radii of orbits in
Bohrs model
c) derive the equation E n
21
22
Z 2e4m
for
2
8 0 h 2 n 2
Bohrs model
d) explain the production of line spectra
with reference to transitions between
energy levels
e) understand the concept of excitation
energy and ionisation energy
a) interpret X-ray spectra obtained from Xray tubes
b) explain the characteristic line spectrum
and continuous spectrum including min in
X-ray
hc
c) derive and use the equation min
eV
d) describe Bragg diffraction by crystals
22
33. Nucleus
33.1 Discovery of
neutrons
33.2 Atomic number
and mass number
33.3 Mass defect and
binding energy
33.4 Isotopes
33.5 Mass
spectrometry
34. Radioactivity
34.1 Radioactive
decay
34.2 Decay constant
and half-life
34.3 Use of
radioisotopes
35. Nuclear reaction
35.1 Nuclear reaction
36. Elementary
particles
36.1 Basic forces
22
23
t1
23
24
24
36.2 Quarks
36.3 Neutrinos
Revision
Mechanics
25
Waves &
Properties of matter
26
Thermodynamics
27
Electricity &
magnetism
28
31
32
Practice on model
papers
37-40