JEE Advanced

Physics Syllabus

JEE Advanced Physics Syllabus 2024

Physics plays a significant role in the JEE Advanced exam. The syllabus is divided into 7
units, each of which is assigned a weightage. The JEE Advanced Physics syllabus 2024
covers a wide range of topics and is divided into General Physics, Mechanics,
Electromagnetism, Optics, Modern Physics and Thermodynamics. This section of the
syllabus is further divided into subsections, which cover specific topics.

Section A

Chapter Name Topics Weightage

General Units and dimensions, dimensional

analysis; least count, significant figures; Methods of
measurement and error analysis for physical
quantities pertaining to the following experiments:

● Experiments based on using Vernier calipers

and screw gauge (micrometer)

● Determination of g using simple pendulum

General 7-8%
● Young’s modulus - elasticity of the material
Surface tension of water by capillary rise and
effect of detergents.

● Specific heat of a liquid using calorimeter,

focal length of a concave mirror and a
convex lens using u-v method

● Speed of sound using resonance column,

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● Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter

and ammeter, and specific resistance of the
material of a wire using meter bridge and
post office box.

● Kinematics in one and two dimensions

(Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles;
Uniform circular motion; Relative velocity.

● Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and

uniformly accelerated frames of reference;
Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and
potential energy; Work and power;
Conservation of linear momentum and
mechanical energy.

● Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its

motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic
collisions.
Mechanics 25-30%
● Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and
perpendicular axes theorems, moment of
inertia of uniform bodies with simple
geometrical shapes; Angular momentum;
Torque; Conservation of angular momentum;
Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of
rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings,
cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid
bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid
bodies.

● Forced and damped oscillation (in one

dimension), resonance.

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● Linear and angular simple harmonic

motions.

● Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

● Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential

and field; Acceleration due to gravity;
Kepler’s law, Geostationary orbits, Motion of
planets and satellites in circular orbits;
Escape velocity.

● Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law;Buoyancy;

Surface energy and surface tension, angle of
contact, drops, bubbles and capillary rise.

● Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded),

Modulus of rigidity and bulk modulus in
mechanics.

● Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline

flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s
theorem and its applications.

● Wave motion (plane waves only),

longitudinal and transverse waves,
superposition of waves; Progressive and
stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air
columns; Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound
in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

● Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and

gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat
Thermal Physics 10-12%
conduction in one dimension; Elementary
concepts of convection and radiation;

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● Newton’s law of cooling;

● Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for

monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal
and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of
gases; Equivalence of heat and work;

● First law of thermodynamics and its

applications (only for ideal gases); Second
law of thermodynamics, reversible and
irreversible processes,

● Carnot engine and its efficiency;

● Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive

powers;

● Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law,

Stefan’s law.

● Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential;

Electrical potential energy of a system of
point charges and of electrical dipoles in a
uniform electrostatic field; Electric field
lines; Flux of electric field;
Electricity and
22-25%
Magnestism ● Gauss’s law and its application in simple
cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely
long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite
plane sheet and uniformly charged thin
spherical shell.

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● Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with

and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series
and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.

● Electric current; Ohm’s law; Series and

parallel arrangements of resistances and
cells; Kirchhoff’s laws and simple
applications; Heating effect of current.

● Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law;

Magnetic field near a current-carrying
straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil
and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on
a moving charge and on a current-carrying
wire in a uniform magnetic field.

● Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect

of a uniform magnetic field on a current
loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter,
ammeter and their conversions.

● Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law,

Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC,
LR, LC and LCR(in series) circuits with d.c.
and a.c. sources.

● Electromagnetic waves and their

characteristics.

Electromagtic
● Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, 8-10%
Waves
microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet,
x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary
facts about their uses.

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● Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection

and refraction at plane and spherical
surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation
and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin
lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin
lenses; Magnification.

Optics 12-15%
● Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle,
interference limited to Young’s double slit
experiment.

● Diffraction due to a single slit. Polarization of

light, plane polarized light; Brewster's law,
Polaroids.

● Atomic nucleus; α, β and γ radiations; Law of

radioactive decay; Decay constant; Half-life
and mean life; Binding energy and its
calculation; Fission and fusion processes;
Energy calculation in these processes.
Modern Physics 6-8%

● Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of

hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and
continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie
wavelength of matter waves.

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Chemistry Syllabus

JEE Advanced Chemistry Syllabus 2024

Chemistry plays a significant role in the JEE Advanced exam. The syllabus is divided into
11 units, each of which is assigned a weightage. The JEE Advanced Chemistry syllabus
2024 covers a wide range of topics and is divided into Inorganic Chemistry, Organic
Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. This section of the syllabus is
further divided into subsections, which cover specific topics.

Section A

Chapter Name Topics Weightage

● Concept of atoms and molecules; Dalton’s

atomic theory; Mole concept; Chemical
formulae; Balanced chemical equations.

● Calculations (based on mole concept and

General Topics stoichiometry) involving common
oxidation-reduction, neutralisation, and
displacement reactions.

● Concentration in terms of mole fraction,

molarity, molality and normality.

● Gas laws and ideal gas equation, absolute

scale of temperature; Deviation from
ideality, van der Waals equation.
States of Matter:
Gases and ● Kinetic theory of gases, average, root 5%
Liquids mean square and most probable velocities
and their relation with temperature; Law
of partial pressures, Diffusion of gases.

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● Intermolecular interactions: types,

distance dependence, and their effect on
properties

● Liquids: vapour pressure, surface tension,

viscosity.

● Bohr model, spectrum of hydrogen atom;

Wave-particle duality, de Broglie
hypothesis; Uncertainty principle;

● Qualitative quantum mechanical picture of

hydrogen atom: Energies, quantum
Atomic Structure 7%
numbers, wave function and probability
density (plots only), shapes of s, p and d
orbitals;

● Aufbau principle; Pauli’s exclusion principle

and Hund’s rule.

● Orbital overlap and covalent bond;

Hybridisation involving s, p and d orbitals
only; Molecular orbital energy diagrams
for homonuclear diatomic species (up to
Chemical
Ne2); Hydrogen bond; Polarity in
Bonding and
molecules, dipole moment. 8%
Molecular
Structure
● VSEPR model and shapes of molecules
(linear, angular, triangular, square planar,
pyramidal, square pyramidal, trigonal
bipyramidal, tetrahedral and octahedral).

● Intensive and extensive properties, state

Chemical
functions, First law of thermodynamics; 7%
Thermodynamics
Internal energy, work (pressure-volume

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only) and heat; Enthalpy, heat capacity,

standard state, Hess’s law;

● Enthalpy of reaction, fusion and

vapourization, and lattice enthalpy;

● Second law of thermodynamics; Entropy;

Gibbs energy; Criteria of equilibrium and
spontaneity.

● Law of mass action; Significance of ΔG and

ΔG⦵ in chemical equilibrium; Equilibrium
constant (Kp and Kc) and reaction
quotient, Le Chatelier’s principle (effect of
concentration, temperature and pressure);
Chemical and
6%
Ionic Equilibrium ● Solubility product and its applications,
common ion effect, pH and buffer
solutions;

● Acids and bases (Bronsted and Lewis

concepts); Hydrolysis of salts.

● Electrochemical cells and cell reactions;

Standard electrode potentials;
Electrochemical work, Nernst equation;

● Electrochemical series, emf of galvanic

Electrochemistry cells; Faraday’s laws of electrolysis; 6%

● Electrolytic conductance, specific,

equivalent and molar conductivity,
Kohlrausch’s law;

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● Batteries: Primary and Secondary, fuel

cells; Corrosion.

● Rates of chemical reactions; Order and

molecularity of reactions; Rate law, rate
constant, half-life;

● Differential and integrated rate

expressions for zero and first order
reactions;

Chemical Kinetics 7%
● Temperature dependence of rate constant
(Arrhenius equation and activation
energy);

● Catalysis: Homogeneous and

heterogeneous, activity and selectivity of
solid catalysts, enzyme catalysis and its
mechanism.

● Classification of solids, crystalline state,

seven crystal systems (cell parameters a, b,
c, α, β, γ), close-packed structure of solids
(cubic and hexagonal), packing in fcc, bcc
Solid State 4%
and hcp lattices;

● Nearest neighbours, ionic radii and radius

ratio, point defects.

● Henry’s law; Raoult’s law; Ideal solutions;

● Colligative properties: lowering of vapour

Solutions 4%
pressure, elevation of boiling point,
depression of freezing point, and osmotic
pressure;

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● van’t Hoff factor.

● Elementary concepts of adsorption:

Physisorption and Chemisorption,
Freundlich adsorption isotherm;

Surface ● Colloids: types, methods of preparation

3%
Chemistry and general properties;

● Elementary ideas of emulsions, surfactants

and micelles (only definitions and
examples).

● Modern periodic law and the present form

of periodic table; electronic configuration
Classification of of elements;
Elements and
4%
Periodicity in ● Periodic trends in atomic radius, ionic
Properties radius, ionization enthalpy, electron gain
enthalpy, valence, oxidation states,
electronegativity, and chemical reactivity.

● Position of hydrogen in periodic table,

occurrence, isotopes, preparation,
properties and uses of hydrogen; hydrides
– ionic, covalent and interstitial;
Hydrogen 2%
● Physical and chemical properties of water,
heavy water; hydrogen
peroxide-preparation, reactions, use and
structure; hydrogen as a fuel.

● Alkali and alkaline earth metals-reactivity

S-Block Elements 5%
towards air, water, dihydrogen, halogens,

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acids; their reducing nature including

solutions in liquid ammonia; uses of these
elements;

● General characteristics of their oxides,

hydroxides, halides, salts of oxoacids;
anomalous behaviour of lithium and
beryllium; preparation, properties, and
uses of compounds of sodium (sodium
carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium
hydroxide, sodium hydrogen carbonate)
and calcium (calcium oxide, calcium
hydroxide, calcium carbonate, calcium
sulphate).

● Oxidation state and trends in chemical

reactivity of elements of groups 13-17;
anomalous properties of boron, carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen, and fluorine with respect
to other elements in their respective
groups.

● Group 13: Reactivity towards acids, alkalis,

and halogens; preparation, properties, and
P-Block Elements uses of borax, orthoboric acid, diborane, 10%
boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride, and
alums; uses of boron and aluminium.

● Group 14: Reactivity towards water and

halogen; allotropes of carbon and uses of
carbon; preparation, properties, and uses
of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
silicon dioxide, silicones, silicates, zeolites.

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● Group 15: Reactivity towards hydrogen,

oxygen, and halogen; allotropes of
phosphorous; preparation, properties, and
uses of dinitrogen, ammonia, nitric acid,
phosphine, phosphorus trichloride,
phosphorus pentachloride; oxides of
nitrogen and oxoacids of phosphorus.

● Group 16: Reactivity towards hydrogen,

oxygen, and halogen; simple oxides;
allotropes of sulfur;
preparation/manufacture, properties, and
uses of dioxygen, ozone, sulfur dioxide,
sulfuric acid; oxoacids of sulfur.

● Group 17: Reactivity towards hydrogen,

oxygen, and metals;
preparation/manufacture, properties, and
uses of chlorine, hydrogen chloride and
interhalogen compounds; oxoacids of
halogens, bleaching powder.

● Group 18: Chemical properties and uses;

compounds of xenon with fluorine and
oxygen.

● Oxidation states and their stability;

standard electrode potentials; interstitial
compounds; alloys; catalytic properties;
D-Block Elements 5%
applications; preparation, structure, and
reactions of oxoanions of chromium and
manganese.

● Lanthanoid and actinoid contractions;

F-Block Elements 2%
oxidation states; general characteristics.

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● Werner’s theory; Nomenclature, cis-trans

and ionization isomerism, hybridization
and geometries (linear, tetrahedral, square
planar and octahedral) of mononuclear
coordination compounds;

Coordination
● Bonding [VBT and CFT (octahedral and 7%
Compounds
tetrahedral fields)]; Magnetic properties
(spin-only) and colour of 3d-series
coordination compounds; Ligands and
spectrochemical series; Stability;
Importance and applications; Metal
carbonyls.

● Metal ores and their concentration;

extraction of crude metal from
Isolation of concentrated ores: thermodynamic (iron,
2%
Metals copper, zinc) and electrochemical
(aluminium) principles of metallurgy;
cyanide process (silver and gold); refining.

● Groups I to V (only Ag+, Hg2+, Cu2+, Pb2+,

Fe3+, Cr3+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ba2+, Zn2+, Mn2+ and
Principles of Mg2+);
Qualitative 3%
Analysis ● Nitrate, halides (excluding fluoride),
carbonate and bicarbonate, sulphate and
sulphide.

● Atmospheric pollution; water pollution;

Environmental soil pollution; industrial waste; strategies
3%
Chemistry to control environmental pollution; green
chemistry.

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● Hybridisation of carbon; σ and π-bonds;

Shapes of simple organic molecules;
aromaticity; Structural and geometrical
isomerism;

● Stereoisomers and stereochemical

relationship (enantiomers, diastereomers,
meso) of compounds containing only up to
two asymmetric centres (R,S and E,Z
configurations excluded);

● Determination of empirical and molecular

formulae of simple compounds by
Basic Principles
combustion method only;
of Organic 4%
Chemistry
● IUPAC nomenclature of organic molecules
(hydrocarbons, including simple cyclic
hydrocarbons and their mono-functional
and bi-functional derivatives only);

● Hydrogen bonding effects; Inductive,

Resonance and Hyperconjugative effects;

● Acidity and basicity of organic compounds;

Reactive intermediates produced during
homolytic and heterolytic bond cleavage;
Formation, structure and stability of
carbocations, carbanions and free radicals.

● Homologous series; Physical properties

(melting points, boiling points and density)
Alkanes and effect of branching on them; 5%
Conformations of ethane and butane
(Newman projections only);

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● Preparation from alkyl halides and

aliphatic carboxylic acids; Reactions:
combustion, halogenation (including allylic
and benzylic halogenation) and oxidation.

● Physical properties (boiling points, density

and dipole moments); Preparation by
elimination reactions; Acid catalysed
hydration (excluding the stereochemistry
of addition and elimination);

Alkenes and ● Metal acetylides; Reactions of alkenes with

5%
Alkynes KMnO4 and ozone; Reduction of alkenes
and alkynes;

● Electrophilic addition reactions of alkenes

with X2, HX, HOX, (X=halogen); Effect of
peroxide on addition reactions; cyclic
polymerization reaction of alkynes.

● Structure; Electrophilic substitution

reactions: halogenation, nitration,
sulphonation, Friedel Crafts alkylation and
acylation;
Benzene 4%

● Effect of directing groups

(monosubstituted benzene) in these
reactions.

● Physical properties; Preparation,

Electrophilic substitution reactions of
Phenols phenol (halogenation, nitration, 2%
sulphonation);

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● Reimer-Tiemann reaction, Kolbe reaction;

Esterification; Etherification; Aspirin
synthesis; Oxidation and reduction
reactions of phenol.

● Rearrangement reactions of alkyl

carbocation; Grignard reactions;
Alkyl Halides 4%
● Nucleophilic substitution reactions and
their stereochemical aspects.

● Physical properties; Reactions:

esterification, dehydration (formation of
alkenes and ethers);

● Reactions with: sodium, phosphorus

Alcohols 4%
halides, ZnCl2/concentrated HCl, thionyl
chloride;

● Conversion of alcohols into aldehydes,

ketones and carboxylic acids.

● Preparation by Williamson’s synthesis; C-O

Ethers 2%
bond cleavage reactions.

● Preparation of: aldehydes and ketones

from acid chlorides and nitriles; aldehydes
from esters; benzaldehyde from toluene
and benzene;
Aldehydes and
4%
Ketones ● Reactions: oxidation, reduction, oxime and
hydrazone formation; Aldol condensation,
Cannizzaro reaction; Haloform reaction;
Nucleophilic addition reaction with RMgX,
NaHSO3, HCN, alcohol, amine.

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● Physical properties; Preparation: from

nitriles, Grignard reagents, hydrolysis of
esters and amides;

Carboxylic Acids 4%
● Preparation of benzoic acid from
alkylbenzenes; Reactions: reduction,
halogenation, formation of esters, acid
chlorides and amides.

● Preparation from nitro compounds, nitriles

and amides; Reactions: Hoffmann
bromamide degradation, Gabriel
phthalimide synthesis; Reaction with
nitrous acid, Azo coupling reaction of
diazonium salts of aromatic amines;
Amines 3%

● Sandmeyer and related reactions of

diazonium salts;

● Carbylamine reaction, Hinsberg test,

Alkylation and acylation reactions.

● Reactions: Fittig, Wurtz-Fittig; Nucleophilic

aromatic substitution in haloarenes and
Haloarenes 2%
substituted haloarenes (excluding benzyne
mechanism and cine substitution).

● Carbohydrates: Classification; Mono- and

di-saccharides (glucose and sucrose);
Oxidation; Reduction; Glycoside formation
and hydrolysis of disaccharides (sucrose,
Biomolecules 5%
maltose, lactose); Anomers.

● Proteins: Amino acids; Peptide linkage;

Structure of peptides (primary and

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secondary); Types of proteins (fibrous and

globular).

● Nucleic acids: Chemical composition and

structure of DNA and RNA.

● Types of polymerization (addition,

condensation); Homo and copolymers;
Polymers Natural rubber; Cellulose; Nylon; Teflon; 3%
Bakelite; PVC; Bio-degradable polymers;
Applications of polymers.

● Drug-target interaction; Therapeutic

action, and examples (excluding
structures), of antacids, antihistamines,
Chemistry in tranquilizers, analgesics, antimicrobials,
2%
Everyday Life and antifertility drugs;

● Artificial sweeteners (names only); Soaps,

detergents, and cleansing action.

● Detection of elements (N, S, halogens);

Detection and identification of the
Practical Organic following functional groups: hydroxyl
2%
Chemistry (alcoholic and phenolic), carbonyl
(aldehyde and ketone), carboxyl, amino
and nitro.

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JEE Advanced Maths Syllabus 2024

Maths plays a significant role in the JEE Advanced exam. The syllabus is divided into 8
units, each of which is assigned a weightage. The JEE Advanced Maths syllabus 2024
covers a wide range of topics and is divided into Algebra, Calculus, Coordinate Geometry
and Vectors. This section of the syllabus is further divided into subsections, which cover
specific topics.

Section A

Chapter Name Topics Weightage

● Sets and their representations,

different kinds of sets (empty, finite
and infinite), algebra of sets,
intersection, complement, difference
and symmetric difference of sets and
their algebraic properties, De-Morgan’s
laws on union, intersection, difference
(for finite number of sets) and practical
problems based on them.

Sets, Relations and

● Cartesian product of finite sets, 10%
Functions
ordered pair, relations, domain and
codomain of relations, equivalence
relation.

● Function as a special case of relation,

functions as mappings, domain,
codomain, range of functions,
invertible functions, even and odd
functions, into, onto and one-to-one
functions, special functions

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(polynomial, trigonometric,
exponential, logarithmic, power,
absolute value, greatest integer etc.),
sum, difference, product and
composition of functions.

● Algebra of complex numbers, addition,

multiplication, conjugation, polar
representation, properties of modulus
and principal argument, triangle
inequality, cube roots of unity,
geometric interpretations.

● Statement of fundamental theorem of

algebra, Quadratic equations with real
coefficients, relations between roots
and coefficients, formation of quadratic
equations with given roots, symmetric
functions of roots.
Algebra 15%
● Arithmetic and geometric progressions,
arithmetic and geometric means, sums
of finite arithmetic and geometric
progressions, infinite geometric series,
sum of the first n natural numbers,
sums of squares and cubes of the first n
natural numbers.

● Logarithms and their properties,

permutations and combinations,
binomial theorem for a positive integral
index, properties of binomial
coefficients.

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● Matrices as a rectangular array of real

numbers, equality of matrices,
addition, multiplication by a scalar and
product of matrices, transpose of a
matrix, elementary row and column
transformations,

● Determinant of a square matrix of

Matrices 10%
order up to three, adjoint of a matrix,
inverse of a square matrix of order up
to three, properties of these matrix
operations, diagonal, symmetric and
skew-symmetric matrices and their
properties, solutions of simultaneous
linear equations in two or three
variables.

● Random experiment, sample space,

different types of events (impossible,
simple, compound), addition and
multiplication rules of probability,
conditional probability, independence
of events, total probability, Bayes
Theorem, computation of probability of
events using permutations and
Probability and
combinations. 10%
Statistics

● Measure of central tendency and

dispersion, mean, median, mode, mean
deviation, standard deviation and
variance of grouped and ungrouped
data, analysis of the frequency
distribution with same mean but
different variance, random variable,

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mean and variance of the random

variable.

● Trigonometric functions, their

periodicity and graphs, addition and
subtraction formulae, formulae
involving multiple and sub-multiple
angles, general solution of
Trigonometry 10%
trigonometric equations.

● Inverse trigonometric functions

(principal value only) and their
elementary properties.

● Two dimensions: Cartesian coordinates,

distance between two points, section
formulae, shift of origin.

● Equation of a straight line in various

forms, angle between two lines,
distance of a point from a line; Lines
through the point of intersection of
two given lines, equation of the
bisector of the angle between two
Analytical Geometry 10%
lines, concurrency of lines; Centroid,
orthocentre, incentre and circumcentre
of a triangle.

● Equation of a circle in various forms,

equations of tangent, normal and
chord. Parametric equations of a circle,
intersection of a circle with a straight
line or a circle, equation of a circle
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two circles and those of a circle and a

straight line.

● Equations of a parabola, ellipse and

hyperbola in standard form, their foci,
directrices and eccentricity, parametric
equations, equations of tangent and
normal.

● Locus problems.

● Three dimensions: Distance between

two points, direction cosines and
direction ratios, equation of a straight
line in space, skew lines, shortest
distance between two lines, equation
of a plane, distance of a point from a
plane, angle between two lines, angle
between two planes, angle between a
line and the plane, coplanar lines.

● Limit of a function at a real number,

continuity of a function, limit and
continuity of the sum, difference,
product and quotient of two functions,
L’Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of
functions.
Differential Calculus 15%
● Continuity of composite functions,
intermediate value property of
continuous functions.

● Derivative of a function, derivative of

the sum, difference, product and

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quotient of two functions, chain rule,

derivatives of polynomial, rational,
trigonometric, inverse trigonometric,
exponential and logarithmic functions.

● Tangents and normals, increasing and

decreasing functions, derivatives of
order two, maximum and minimum
values of a function, Rolle’s theorem
and Lagrange’s mean value theorem,
geometric interpretation of the two
theorems, derivatives up to order two
of implicit functions, geometric
interpretation of derivatives.

● Integration as the inverse process of

differentiation, indefinite integrals of
standard functions, definite integrals as
the limit of sums, definite integral and
their properties, fundamental theorem
of integral calculus.

● Integration by parts, integration by the

methods of substitution and partial
Integral Calculus fractions, application of definite 10%
integrals to the determination of areas
bounded by simple curves.

● Formation of ordinary differential

equations, solution of homogeneous
differential equations of first order and
first degree, separation of variables
method, linear first order differential
equations.

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● Addition of vectors, scalar

multiplication, dot and cross products,
Vectors 10%
scalar and vector triple products, and
their geometrical interpretations.

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