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Chennai Mathematical Institute, H1, SIPCOT IT Park, Siruseri, Kelambakkam, Chennai – 603103
STEMS 2025
Physics Syllabus
Category A
- Mechanics
- Distance and Displacement
- Velocity
- Uniform and Non-uniform Motion along a Straight Line
- Acceleration
- Distance-time and Velocity-time Graphs
- Uniform Circular Motion
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- Momentum
- Elementary Idea of Conservation of Momentum.
- Kinetic and Potential Energy
- Work and Power
- Conservation of Energy
- Pressure in Fluids, Pascal\'s Law
- Wave Motion
- Gravitation
- Archimedes' Principle
- Buoyancy
- Elementary idea of Relative Density
- Kinematics in 1 and 2 Dimensions
- Newton\'s Laws of Motion
- Friction (Static and Dynamic)
- Kinetic and Potential Energy
- Work and Power
- Conservation of Energy
- Conservation of Momentum
- Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Gravitation
- Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
- Linear and Angular Harmonic Motions
- Pressure in Fluids, Pascal\'s Law
- Surface Energy and Surface Tension
- Streamline Flow
- Equations of Continuity
- Bernoulli\'s Theorems and its Applications
- Wave Motion
- Vibration of Strings and Air Columns
- Doppler Effect (Sound)
- Thermal Physics
- Thermal Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Latent Heat
- Conduction, Elementary Concepts of Convection and Radiation
- Ideal Gas Laws
- Speci ic Heats
- Thermal Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Latent Heat
- Conduction in 1 Dimension, Elementary concepts of Convection and
- Radiation
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- Newton\'s Law of Cooling
- Ideal Gas Laws
- Speci ic Heats
- Isothermal and Adiabatic Processes
- First Law of Thermodynamics
- Black Body Radiation (Absorptive and Emissive Powers):
Kirchoff\'s Law, Wein\'s Displacement Law, Stefan Law
- Optics
- Rectilinear Propagation of Light
- Ray Diagrams
- Re lection and Refraction
- Mirror Formula and Magni ication
- Lens Formula and Magni ication
- Photoelectric Effect
- Electrodynamics
- Electric Circuits and Ohm's Law
- Resistance of System of Resistors (Series and Parallel)
- Heating Effects of Current
- Electric Power
- Magnetic Fields and Field Lines
- Magnetic Field - Right-hand Thumb Rule
- Field Lines
Category B
- Mechanics
- Newtonian Mechanics, Lagrangian Mechanics, Hamiltonian Mechanics
- Rigid Body Dynamics
- Simple Harmonic Oscillator
- Central Forces
- Special Relativity (Time Dilation, Length Contraction, Lorentz
- Transformation)
- Noether\'s Theorem
- Elementary Topics in Fluid Dynamics
- Electrodynamics
- Gauss\'s Law, Coulomb\'s Law, Application of Gauss\'s Law in the
Presence
- of Symmetries
- Currents and AC and DC Circuits
- Solution of Laplace\'s Equations in Cartesian, Spherical, and
Cylindrical
- Coordinates
- Multipole Expansion
- Ampere\'s Law
- Faraday\'s Law
- Continuity Equation
- Electromagnetic Waves and Poynting\'s Theorem
- Coulomb\'s Law
- Electric Fields and Electric Potential
- Gauss\'s Law and its Application in Simple Cases
- Capacitance
- Electric Current, Ohm\'s Law, Series and Parallel Arrangements
of
- Resistors and Cells, Kirchoff\'s Laws (and Simple Applications)
- Heating Effect of Current
- Biot-Savart\'s Law and Ampere\'s Law
- Lorentz Force
- Magnetic Moment of a Current Loop
- Electromagnetic Induction: Faraday\'s Law, Lenz\'s Law, RC, LC, and RL
- Circuits
- Quantum Mechanics
- Heisenberg\'s Formulation, Schrodinger\'s Formulation
- Linear Algebra
- Spin 1
- 2 Systems
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- Angular Momentum Quantization and Addition
- Perturbation Theory (Basics)
- Fourier Transforms
- Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
- Optics
- Rectilinear Propagation of Light
- Re lection and Refraction
- Thin Lenses
- Wave Nature of Light: Huygens Principle, Interference
- Modern Physics
- Law of Radioactive Decay, Decay Constant, Half-life and Mean
Life,
- Binding Energy and its Calculation, Fission and Fusion Processes
- Photoelectric Effect
- Bohr\'s Theory of Hydrogen-like Atoms
- de Broglie Wavelength of Matter Waves
- Wave Properties
- Superposition, Diffraction
- Geometric Optics
- Polarization
- Doppler Effect
- Thermal Physics
- Thermodynamic Processes, Equations of State
- Ideal Gases, Kinetic Theory
- Ensembles
- Statistical Concepts and Calculation of Thermodynamic Quantities
- Heat Transfer
- Thermal Expansion
- Modern Physics
- Bohr\'s Model
- Energy Quantization
- Black Body Radiation
- X-Rays
- Atoms in Electric and Magnetic Fields
