10th Physics annual plan - Sudhir
June
Introduction
- General overview of the scientific method
- facts vs empirical laws vs hypotheses vs theories
- General overview of topics to be covered
Light and shadows
- History of hypotheses on light
- Light rays
- Umbra and Penumbra
Light reflection
- Diffuse and specular reflection
- Laws of reflection
July
Light refraction
- Snell's law
- Total internal reflection
- Dispersion
August
Ray diagrams
- Method
- Example using pinhole camera
Lenses
- Types of lenses
- Convex lens
- Concave lens
September
Mirrors
- Plane mirrors
- Convex mirrors
- Concave Mirrors
- 1/f=1/u+1/v
Waves
- Longitudinal and transverse waves
- Wave properties
- wave velocity equation
October
Wave based phenomena
- Reflection
- Refraction
- Diffraction
- Polarization
November
Sound
- Sound as a wave
- Physical and physiologial sense of sound
- Reflection Refraction and Diffraction
December
Light as a wave
- History
- Necessity of the wave model
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Reflection Refraction Diffraction and Polarization in light
January
Atomic physics
- Subatomic composition
- isotopes
- Radioactivity
- Half life
- Fission
- Fusion
- Safety precausions