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

February

Exam orientation

March

Revision and exams

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