PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus: Students of PSEB Class 11 can now access the latest syllabus for the 2024-2025 academic session. For those with the Science stream, the syllabus of Physics subject is provided in this article. We have provided the detailed and updated Physics syllabus which is released by the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) officially for Class 11.
The PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus mentions the detailed list of chapter-wise topics, practical scheme and details of internal assessment for the current academic session. Students must analyse the complete syllabus to clearly understand the scope of each topic and then strategise their study schedule accordingly. Check and download the new PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2024-25 in PDF below.
PSEB Class 11 Physics Examination Scheme 2024-2025
The Physics exam will be for 100 marks. It will include an annual theory examination, practical exam and internal assessment with the mark breakup as follows:
| Components of Exam | Marks |
| Theory Paper | 70 |
| Practical Exam | 25 |
| Internal Assessment | 05 |
| Total | 100 |
PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2024-25
Check the names of units and topics mentioned under them for PSEB Class 11 Chemistry curriculum below:
Unit I :
Chapter-1: Units and Measurements
Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units. significant figures.
Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.
Unit II: Kinematics
Chapter-2: Motion in a Straight Line
Frame of reference. Motion in a straight line: Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Average speed and instantaneous velocity, uniform accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs. Relations for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment)
Chapter-3: Motion in a Plane
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.
Unit vector: Resolution of a vector in a plane - rectangular components. Scalar and vector product of vectors. Motion in a plane. Cases of uniform velocity and uniform acceleration-projectile motion. Uniform circular motion.
Unit III: Laws of Motion
Chapter-4: Laws of Motion
Intuitive concept 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 applications. Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Comman forces in mechanics. Static and kinetic friction, laws of friction. rolling friction, lubrication.
Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force, examples of circular motion (vehicle on level circular road. vehicle on banked road). Solving problems in Mechanics.
Unit -IV: Work, Energy and Power
Chapter-5: Work, Energy and Power
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); nonConservative forces, various forms of energy, motion in a vertical circle; elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.
Unit-V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Chapter-6: System of Particles and Rotational Motion
Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conversation and centre of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of uniform rod. Moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, Law of conservation of angular momentum and its applications.
Equilibrium 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 inertia for simple geometrical objects (no derivation).
Unit-VI: Gravitation
Chapter-7: 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
Chapter-8 Mechanical Properties of Solids
Elastic behaviour, of solids, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk moduluss, shear modulus of rigidity, Poisson s-ratio; elastic energy.
Chapter-9 Mechanical Properties of Fluids
Pressure due to a fluid column, Pascal's law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes). Effect of gravity on fluid pressure.
Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow. Critical velócity. Bernoulli's theorem and its applications.
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure, across curved surface, application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise,
Chapter-10 Thermal Properties of Matter
Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases, anomalous expansion of water, specific heat Capacity: Cp, Cvcolorimetry; change of state-latent heat capacity.
Heat transfer-conduction, convection radiation and thermal Conductivity, Qualitative idea of Blackbody radiation, Stefan’s law, Wein's displacement law, Green House effect.
Unit-VIII: Thermodynamics
Chapter-11 Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics). Heat, work and internal energy. First law of thermodynamics. Isothermal and adiabatic processes.
Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Heat engines and refrigerators.
Unit-IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory of gases
Chapter-12 Kinetic Theory
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas.
Kinetic theory of gases- assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases, concept of mean free path, Avogadro's number.
Unit-X: Oscillations and Waves
Chapter-14 Oscillations
Periodic motion – time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic functions.
Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M) and its equation; þhase; oscillations of a loading 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 and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
Chapter-15 Wave
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 harmonics, Beats, Doppler effect.
| NOTE: Topics given below are in the prescribed syllabus of PSEB but not mentioned in book prescribed by PSEB . So these topics are to be done with students and the paper will include these topics and questions from these topics are not considered as out of syllabus. 1. Motion in a vertical circle 2. Centre of mass of uniform rod 3. Poiwsson’-ratio; elastic energy 4. Terminal velocity 5. Qualitative idea of Blackbody radiation, 6. Stefan’a law, Wein’s displacement law, Green House effect. 7. Definition of temperature 8. Work done on compressing a gas 9. Avogadro’s number. |
Structure of Practical Paper
| Practical Component | Marks |
| Two Experiments | 10 |
| Record of Activities | 2 |
| Viva on Activities | 3 |
| Record of Experiments | 2 |
| Viva of Experiments | 2 |
| Investigatory Project | 5 |
| Total | 25 |
To check the list of experiments/activities for practical examination and further details of PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus, download the PDF below:
PSEB Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2024-2025 PDF |
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