BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION HARYANA

Syllabus and Chapter wise division of marks (2024-25)

Class- XI Subject: Physics Code: 850
General Instructions:
1. There will be an Annual Examination based on the entire syllabus.
2. The annual examination (Theory) will be of 70 Marks whereas Practical
examination will be of 30 marks (Internal). Therefore, Total annual
evaluation (70+30) will be of 100 marks.
3. For Practical examination the criteria are as follows:

Total Time: 3 Hours

Evaluation Scheme Marks
Marks allocated for Internal Assessment 15
1. Student Assessment Test 10
Weightage of marks (06 marks of SAT, 02
marks of half yearly test, 02 marks for
attendance and classroom participation)
2. Practical file/ Record 03
3. Project Record 02

Marks allocated for Annual Examination 15

Experiments (two) 09
(one from each
section)

Activity (One from Syllabus) 03

Viva Voce 03
Total marks 30

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 Course Structure (2024-25)
Class- 11th Subject: Physics Code: 850

Sr. Unit Chapter Marks

No.
I Physical World and Units and Measurement 4
Measurement
II Kinematics Motion in a Straight Line
11
Motion in a Plane
III Laws of Motion Laws of Motion 7

IV Work, Energy and Power Work, Energy and Power 6

V Motion of System of System of Particles and Rotational 6

Particles and Rigid Body Motion
VI Gravitation Gravitation 6

VII Properties of Bulk Matter Mechanical Properties of Solids

Mechanical Properties of Fluids
12
Thermal Properties of Matter

VIII Thermodynamics Thermodynamics 6

IX Behaviour of Perfect Kinetic Theory

Gases and Kinetic Theory 4
of Gases
X Oscillations and Waves Oscillations
8
Waves

Total 70

Practical 30

Grand Total 100

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UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement
Chapter 1: Units and Measurement
The International System of Units, Significant Figures: Rules for
Arithmetic Operations with Significant Figures, rounding off the
Uncertain Digits, Rules for Determining the Uncertainty in the Results of
Arithmetic Calculations, Dimensions of Physical Quantities,
Dimensional Formulae and Dimensional Equations, Dimensional
Analysis and its Applications: Checking the Dimensional Consistency
of Equations, Deducing Relation among the Physical Quantities.

UNIT II: Kinematics

Chapter 2: Motion in a Straight Line
Instantaneous Velocity and Speed, Acceleration, Kinematic Equations
for Uniformly Accelerated Motion, x-t, v-t and a-t graphs
Chapter 3: Motion in a Plane
Scalars And Vectors: Position and Displacement Vectors, Equality of
Vectors, Multiplication Of Vectors By Real Numbers, Addition And
Subtraction Of Vectors — Graphical Method, Resolution Of Vectors,
Vector Addition – Analytical Method, Motion In A Plane, Motion In A
Plane With Constant Acceleration, Projectile Motion, Uniform
Circular Motion
UNIT III: Laws of Motion
Chapter 4: Laws of Motion
Aristotle’s Fallacy, The Law Of Inertia, Newton’s First Law Of
Motion, momentum, impulse, Newton’s Second Law Of Motion,
Newton’s Third Law Of Motion, Conservation Of Momentum,
Equilibrium Of A Particle, Common Forces In Mechanics: Friction,
rolling friction, Circular Motion: motion of a car on a level road,
banked road, Solving Problems In Mechanics

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UNIT IV: Work, Energy and Power
Chapter 5: Work, Energy and Power
The Scalar Product, Notions of Work And Kinetic Energy: The Work-
Energy Theorem, Work, Kinetic Energy, Work Done by a Variable
Force, The Work-Energy Theorem for a Variable Force, The Concept
of Potential Energy, The Conservation of Mechanical Energy, The
Potential Energy Of A Spring, conservative and non-conservative
force, Power, Collisions: Elastic And Inelastic Collisions, Collisions In
One Dimension, Collisions In Two Dimensions.

UNIT V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

Chapter 6: Systems of Particles and Rotational Motion
What kind of motion can a rigid body have, Centre of Mass, Motion of
Centre of Mass, Linear Momentum of a System of Particles, Vector
Product of Two Vectors, Angular Velocity and its Relation with
Linear Velocity: Angular Acceleration, Torque and Angular
Momentum: Moment of Force (Torque), Angular Momentum of a
Particle, Equilibrium of a Rigid Body: Principle of Moments, Centre of
Gravity, Moment of Inertia, Kinematics of Rotational Motion about a
Fixed Axis, work done by torque, Dynamics of Rotational Motion
about a Fixed Axis, Angular Momentum in Case of Rotation about a
Fixed Axis: Conservation of Angular Momentum.

UNIT VI: Gravitation

Chapter 7: Gravitation
Kepler’s Laws, Universal Law of Gravitation, The Gravitational
Constant, Acceleration Due to Gravity of the Earth, Acceleration Due
to Gravity below and above the Surface of Earth, Gravitational
Potential Energy, Escape Speed, Earth Satellites, Energy of an
Orbiting Satellite.

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UNIT VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Chapter 8: Mechanical Properties of Solids
Stress and Strain, Hooke’s Law, Stress-Strain Curve, Elastic Moduli:
Young’s Modulus, Shear Modulus, Bulk Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio,
Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire, Applications of Elastic
Behaviour of Materials.
Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Pressure: Pascal’s Law, Variation of Pressure with Depth, Atmospheric
Pressure and Gauge Pressure, Hydraulic Machines, Streamline Flow,
Bernoulli’s Principle: Speed of Efflux: Torricelli’s Law, Dynamic Lift,
Viscosity: Stokes’ Law, Surface Tension: Surface Energy, Surface
Energy And Surface Tension, Angle of Contact, Drops and Bubbles,
Capillary Rise.
Chapter 10: Thermal Properties of Matter
Temperature and Heat, Measurement of Temperature Ideal-Gas
Equation and Absolute Temperature, Thermal Expansion, Thermal
stress, Specific Heat Capacity, Molar specific heat capacity,
Calorimetry, Change of State: Latent Heat, Heat Transfer: Conduction,
Convection, Radiation, Weins displacement law, Stefan- Boltzmann law
Newton’s Law of Cooling.

UNIT VIII: Thermodynamics

Chapter 11: Thermodynamics
Thermal Equilibrium, Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, Heat,
Internal Energy and Work, First Law of Thermodynamics, Specific
Heat Capacity, Specific heat capacity of water, Thermodynamic State
Variables and Equation of State, Thermodynamic Processes: Quasi-
Static Process, Isothermal Process, Adiabatic Process, Isochoric Process,
Isobaric Process, Cyclic Process, Second Law of Thermodynamics,
Reversible and Irreversible Processes.

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UNIT IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases
Chapter 12: Kinetic Theory
Molecular Nature of Matter, Behaviour of Gases, Kinetic Theory of
an Ideal Gas: Pressure of an Ideal Gas, Kinetic Interpretation of
Temperature, Law of Equipartition of Energy, Specific Heat Capacity:
Monatomic Gases, Diatomic Gases, Polyatomic Gases, Mean Free Path.

UNIT X: Oscillations and Waves

Chapter 13: Oscillations
Periodic and Oscillatory Motions: Period and Frequency, Displacement,
Simple Harmonic Motion, Simple Harmonic Motion and Uniform
Circular Motion, Velocity and Acceleration in Simple Harmonic
Motion, Force Law for Simple Harmonic Motion, Energy in Simple
Harmonic Motion, The Simple Pendulum.
Chapter 14: Waves
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves, Displacement Relation in a
Progressive Wave: Amplitude and Phase, Wavelength and Angular Wave
Number, Period, Angular Frequency and Frequency, The Speed of a
Travelling Wave: Speed of a Transverse Wave on Stretched String,
Speed of a Longitudinal Wave (Speed Of Sound), The Principle of
Superposition of Waves, Reflection of Waves: Standing Waves and
Normal Modes, Stretched string fixed at both ends, Organ pipe, Beats.

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PRACTICALS:
The record to be submitted by the students at the time of their annual
examination must include:
• Record of at least 08 Experiments [with 4 from each section], to be
performed by the students.
• Record of at least 6 Activities [with 3 each from section A and section B],
to be performed by the students.
• The Report of the project carried out by the students.

Section-A
1. Use of vernier callipers
i. To measure diameter of a small spherical/cylindrical body.
ii. To measure dimensions of a given regular body of
known mass and hence find its density.
iii. To measure internal diameter & depth of a given
beaker and find its volume
2. Use of Screw gauge:-
i. To measure diameter of a given wire.
ii. To measure thickness of a given sheet.
iii. To measure volume of an irregular lamina.
3. To determine radius of curvature of a given spherical
surface by a spherometer.
4. To measure the mass of two different objects using a beam balance.
5. To find the weight of a given body using parallelogram law of vector.
6. Using a simple pendulum, plot L-T and L-T2 graph. Find the effective
length of a second’s pendulum using appropriate Graph.
7. To study the relationship between free of limiting friction and
normal reaction and to find the coefficient of friction between
a block and a horizontal surface.
8. To find the down ward free along on inclined plane acting on a roller
due to gravitational pull of the earth and study its relationship with
the angle of inclination by plotting graph between free and sin Ɵ.
Activities:-
1. To make a paper scale of given least counte.g.0.2cm, 0.5cm.
2. To determine mass of given body using a meter scale by using
principle of moments.
3. To plot a graph for a given set of data with proper choice of
scales and error bars.
4. To measure the force of limiting friction for rolling of a
roller on a horizontal plane.
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 5. To study the variation in the range of jet of water with the
angle of projection.
6. To study the conservation of energy of a bar rolling down on an
inclined plane.

Section-B
Experiments:
1. To determine young’s Modules of elasticity of material of given wire.
2. TofindforceconstantandeffectivemassofahelicalspringbyplottingT2-
m graph using Method of oscillations.
3. Tostudythevariationinvolumewithpressureforasampleofairatconstant
temperature by plotting graphs between P&V and between P&1/V.
4. To determine surface tension of water by capillary rise method.
5. To determine the coefficient of viscosity of a given viscous
liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of a given spherical
body.
6. To study the relationship between the temperature of a hot body
and time by plotting cooling curve.
7. To study the relation between length of a given wire and tension for
constant frequency using sonometer.
8. To find the speed of sound in air at room temperature using a
resonance tube by two resonance position.
9. To determine Specific heat Capacity of a given 1. Solid 2.
Liquid by Methods of mixtures.
Activity:
1. To observe change of state and plot a cooling curve for molten
wave.
2. To observe explain the effect of heating on a bimetallic strip.
3. To note the change in level of liquid in a container on
heating and interpret the observation.
4. To study the effect of detergents on surface tension of water by
capillary rise.
5. To study the factors effecting the rate of loss of heat of a liquid.
6. To study the effect of load on depression of a suitably clamped
meter scale loaded 1. at its ends 2. in the middle.

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 Month wise syllabus distribution (2024-25)
CLASS – 11th Subject: Physics Code: 850

Month Chapter Teaching Revision Practical

Period Period Period
April Ch-1: Units and Measurement 12 04
Practical:
1. Use of vernier calliper:
i. To measure
diameter of a
small
spherical/cylindri
cal body. 08
ii. To measure
dimensions of
a given
regular body
of known
mass and
hence find its
density.
iii. To measure
internal
diameter &
depth of a
given beaker
and find its
volume
Activities:
To make a paper scale of given least
counte.g.0.2cm, 0.5cm.

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May Ch–2: Motion in Straight line 11 02

Ch–3: Motion in a Plane 12 02

Practical:
1. Use of Screw gauge:-
i. To measure
diameter of a
given wire.
ii. To measure
thickness of a 12
given sheet.
iii. To measure
volume of an
irregular lamina.
Activities:
To determine mass of given body using
a meter scale by using principle of
moments.

June Summer Vacations - Project Work

July Ch–4: Laws of Motion 10 02

Ch–5: Work, Energy and Power 12 02

Practical:
1. To determine radius
of curvature of a
given spherical
surface by a
spherometer.
2. To measure the mass of two 12
different objects using a beam
balance.
Activities:
To plot a graph for a given set of
data with proper choice of scales
and error bars.

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August Ch–6: System of Particles and 14 02
Rotational motion

Practical:
1. To find the weight of a given
body using parallelogram law
of vector.
2. Using a simple pendulum,
plot L-T and L-T2 graph.
Find the effective length of a
second’s pendulum using 14
appropriate Graph.
3. To study the variation
in the range of jet of
water with the angle
of projection.
Activities:
To measure the force of
limiting friction for rolling of
a roller on a horizontal plane.

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September Revision 10

Half yearly examination

Practical:
1. To study the
relationship between 14
free of limiting
friction and normal
reaction and to find
the coefficient of
friction between a
block and a
horizontal surface.
2. To find the down ward free
along on inclined plane
acting on a roller due to
gravitational pull of the
earth and study its
relationship with the angle
of inclination by plotting
graph between free and sin
Ɵ.
Activities:
1. To study the
conservation of energy
of a bar rolling down on
an inclined plane.

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October Ch–7 : Gravitation 8 02

Ch-8 : Mechanical Properties of Solids 6 01

Ch-9 : Mechanical Properties of Fluids 10 03

Practical:
1. To determine young’s Modules
of elasticity of material of
given wire.
2. To find force constant and
effective mass of a helical
spring by plotting T2- m 10
graph using Method of
oscillations.
Activities:
1. To observe change of state
and plot a cooling curve for
molten wave.
2. To observe explain the
effect of heating on a
bimetallic strip.

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November Ch-10: Thermal Properties of Matter 08 02

Ch-11: Thermodynamics 10 04

Practical:
1. To study the variation in
volume with pressure for a
sample of air at constant 12
temperature by plotting
graphs between P&V and
between P&1/V.
2. To determine surface tension
of water by capillary rise
method.
3. To determine the
coefficient of
viscosity of a given
viscous liquid by
measuring the
terminal velocity of
a given spherical
body.
Activities:
1. To note the
change in level of
liquid in a
container on
heating and
interpret the
observation.
2. To study the effect of
detergents on surface
tension of water by
capillary rise.

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December Ch-12: Kinetic Theory 08 02

Ch- 13 Oscillations 12 04

Practical:
1. To study the
relationship between
the temperature of a
hot body and time by 12
plotting cooling curve.
2. To study the relation
between length of a given
wire and tension for constant
frequency using sonometer.
Activity:
1. To study the factors
effecting the rate of loss of
heat of a liquid.
2. To study the effect of
load on depression of a
suitably clamped meter
scale loaded 1. at its
ends 2. in the middle.

January Ch- 14: Waves 10 2

Practical:
1. To find the speed of sound
in air at room temperature
using a resonance tube by
two resonance position. 08
2. To determine Specific heat
Capacity of a given 1. Solid
2. Liquid by Methods of
mixtures.
February Revision 18

March Annual Examination

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Note:
• Subject teachers are advised to direct the students to prepare
notebook of the Terminology/Definitional Words used in the chapters
for enhancement of vocabulary for clarity of the concept.
• The NCERT textbooks present information in boxes across the book.
These help students to get conceptual clarity. However, the
information in these boxes would not be assessed in the year-end
examination.
Prescribed Books:
1. Physics Part-I, Class XI, Published by Board of School Education Haryana
(© NCERT)
2. Physics Part-II, Class XI, Published by Board of School Education Haryana
(© NCERT)
3. Laboratory Manual of Physics, Class XI published by (NCERT)

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 Question Paper Design (2024-25)
Class- XI Subject: Physics

Code: 850 Time: 3 hours

Type of Marks Number Description Total Marks

Question of
Question
1 18 09 Multiple Choice 18
Objective Questions,
Questions 03 Fill in the blanks
03 One Word
Answer based
03 Assertion-Reason
Questions
Very Short 2 7 Internal choice will 14
Answer Type be given in any 3
Question questions
Short Answer 3 5 Internal choice will 15
Type Question be given in any 2
questions
Case Study 4 2 Internal choice will 8
be given only in one
part of both
questions
Long Answer 5 3 Internal choice will 15
Type Question be given in all the
questions and may
be given in the parts
Total 35 70

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