UPMT 2015 Syllabus Uttarakhand Pre Medical Test : hnbumu.ac.in Dehradun

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Syllabus of U.P.M.T. – 2015
PHYSICS (PART-I)
Unit I: Physical World and Measurement
Physics – scope and excitement: nature of physical laws: Physics, technology and society. Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy and precision of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.

Unit II: Kinematics
Frame of reference. Motion in straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time, position-time graphs, relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment). Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion. Scalar and vector quantities: Position and displacement vectors, general vectors and notation, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative velocity. Unit vector; resolution of a vector in a plane-rectangular components. Motion in a plane. Cases of uniform acceleration-projectile motion. Uniform circular motion.

Unit III: Laws of motion
Intuitive concepts of force, Inertia, Newton’s first law of motion; momentum and Newton’s second law of motion; impulse; Newton’s third law of motion. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its application. Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction. Dynamics and uniform circular motion; Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on level circular road, vehicle on banked road).

Unit IV: Work, Energy and Power
Scalar product of vectors. Work done by a constant force and a variable force, kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power. Notion of potential energy, Potential energy of a spring, conservative forces; conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies); non-conservative forces: Elementary idea of elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Unit V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Centre of mass of a two-particle system, mopmentum conversation and centre of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of uniform rod. Vector product of vectors; moment of force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum with some examples. Equilibruim of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions; moment of inertia, radius of gyration. Values of moments of nertia for smple geometrical objects (no derivation) Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.

Unit VI: Gravitation
Keplar’s laws of planetary motion. The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites.

Unit VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Elastic behaviour, Stress-stain relationship. Hooke’las. Young’s modules bulk modules, shear, modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid coloumn: Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes). Effect of gravity on fluid pressure. Vscosity. Stokers’law, terminal velocity, Reynold’s number, streamline and turbulent flow. Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications. Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise. Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, thermal conductivity, Newton’s law of cooling.

Unit VIII: Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics). Heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Heat engines and refrigerators.

Unit IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas. Kinetic theory of gases, assumption, concept of pressure, Kinetic energy and temperature : rins speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heats of gases; concept of mean free path, Avogadro’s number.

Unit X: Oscillations and Waves
Periodic motion – period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Period functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation: phase: oscillations of a spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in S.H.M. – kinetic and potential energies; simple pendulum-derivation of expression for its time period; free, forced (damped) oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance. Wave motion Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of wave motion. Displacement relation for a progressive wave. Principle of superposition of waves, reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, fundamental mode and harmonies. Beats. Doppler effect.

PHYSICS (PART – II)
Unit 1: Electrostatics
Electric Charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law-force between two point charge, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution.
Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in uniform electric field. Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).
Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in uniform electric field. Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).
Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge a dipole and system of charges; equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in a electrostatic field.
Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitors. Van de Graaff generator.

Unit II:Current Electricity
Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance. V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear), electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity. Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; series and parallel combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance. Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell combination of cells in series and in parallel.
Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge. Potentiometer – principle and its applications to measure potential difference and for comparing emf of two cells: measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

Unit III: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism
Concept of magnetic field. Oersted’s experiment. Biot – Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop. Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids.

Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar magnet as a equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-dia-and ferro-magnetic substances, with examples. Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents
Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance. Need for displacement current. Alternating currents, peak and rums values of alternating current/voltage; reactance and impedance; LC oscillators (qualitative treatment only) LCR series circuit, resonance; power in AC circuits, wattless current. AC generator and transformer.

Unit V: Electromagnetic Waves
Displacement current, Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only). Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, Microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, Xrays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses. 29

Unit VI: Optics
Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula, Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lensmaker’s formula. Magnification. Power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism. Scattering of light – blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation, correction of eve defects (myopia, hypermetropia, presbyopia and astigmatism) using lenses Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.

Wave optics: wave front and Huygens’ Principle, reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wave fronts. Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ Principle Interference. Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width. Coherent sources and sustained interference of light. Diffraction due to a single slit. Width of central maximum. Resolving power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes. Polarisation plane polarized light: Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids.

Unit VII: Dual Nature of Matter and radiation
Dual nature of radiation, Photoelectric effect. Hertz and Lenard’s observations: Finstein’s photoelectric equation particle nature of light. Matter waver-wave nature of particles. de Broglie relation. Davisson-Germer experiment.

Unit VIII: Atoms & Nuclei
Alpha-particle scattering experiment: Rutherford’s model of atom: Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum.
Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars: isotones. Radioactivity alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties: radioactive decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass numbers: nuclear fission, nuclear reactor, nuclear fusion.

Unit IX: Electronic Devices
Semiconductors; semiconductor diode – I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier: I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulation. Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR). Transistor as a switch.

Unit X: Communication Systems
Elements of a communication system (block diagram only): bandwidth of signals (speech. TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky and space wave propagation. Need for modulation. Production and detection of an amplitude-modulated wave.