KVS PGT Physics Syllabus 2023: Download PDF For Free

Organization Name

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan

Recruitment

KVS PGT Recruitment 2022

Name of the Post

Post Graduate Teacher (PGT)

Category

Syllabus

Exam Level

Central level Exam

Selection Process

Written Exam and Interview

Mode of Exam

Online (Computer Based Test)

Official Website

www.kvsangathan.nic.in 

UNITS

TOPICS

Unit 1: Physical World and Measurement

• Units of measurement
• System of Units
• SI Units
• Fundamental and Derived Units
• Length, mass, and time measurement
• Precision of measuring instrument
• Errors in measurement 
• Dimensional analysis and its application
• Significant figures

Unit 2: Kinematics

• Uniform and non-uniform motion
• average speed and instantaneous velocity. 
• Uniformly accelerated motion
• velocity-time and position-time graphs
• Addition and subtraction of vectors 
• Resolution of a vector in a plane
• projectile motion.

Unit 3: Laws of Motion

• Newton’s first law of motion
• Inertia
• Momentum
• Force
• Impulse
• Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications. 
• Static and kinetic friction 
• Laws of friction 
• Uniform circular motion

Unit 5: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

• Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conversation and center of mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body
• center of mass of a uniform rod.
• a moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, and conservation of angular momentum with some examples.
• Dynamics of rigid bodies, comparison of linear and rotational motions; THe moment of inertia, the radius of gyration.
• Values of moments of inertia for geometrical objects. Parallel and perpendicular axis theorems and their applications.

Unit 6: Gravitation

• Keplar’s laws of planetary motion. The universal law of gravitation. Variation of Acceleration due to gravity and with altitude, latitude, and depth.
• Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity. Orbital velocity of a satellite. Geo-stationary satellites.

Unit 7: Properties of Bulk Matter

• Elastic behavior, Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus, bulk modulus, shear modulus of rigidity,
• Moment of inertia, Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes)
• Stokes’ law, Terminal velocity, Reynold’s No
• Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications. 
• Surface tension, Application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. Heat, temperature, Specific heat capacity
• Latent heat capacity. 
• Heat transfer-conduction, Convection, radiation, Thermal conductivity.

Unit 8: Thermodynamics

• Thermal equilibrium, Zeroth thermodynamics, First law of thermodynamics. 
• The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. 
• Heat engine and refrigerator. 
• Kinetic theory of gases, Degrees of freedom, Law of equipartition of energy, Avogadro’s number.

Unit 9: Oscillations and Waves

• Periodic motion, Oscillations of a spring-restoring force and force constant; 
• Energy in S.H.M. Kinetic and potential energies; Free, forced, and damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion. 
• Transverse and longitudinal waves, Reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes, Beats, Doppler effect.

Unit 10: Electrostatics

• Electric Charges; Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law, and its application, force between two point charges, 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 a uniform electric field.
• Gauss’s theorem and its applications
• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a dipole system of charges; equipotential surfaces, the electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field.
• Conductors and insulators, free charges, and bound charges inside a conductor. Dielectrics and electric Dolarisation, capacitors, and capacitance, the combination of capacitors, the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium
• between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor. Van de Graaff generator.

Unit 11: Current Electricity

• Drift velocity, V-1 characteristics, Electrical energy and power, Electrical resistivity and conductivity.
• Series and parallel combinations of resistors;
• Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, Kirchhoff’s laws, and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge.

Unit 12: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• Biot – Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop.
•  Ampere’s law and its applications to an infinitely long straight wire. 
• Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. 
• Cyclotron. 
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. 
• Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter. 
• The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. 
• Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; 
• Magnetic field lines; 
• Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances, with examples. 
• Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Unit 13: Electromagnetic inductions and Alternating Currents

• Electromagnetic induction
• Faraday’s laws, induced emf and current
• Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents. 
• Self and mutual induction.

Unit 14: Optics

• Reflection of light, Refraction at spherical surfaces, Lenses, Thin lens formula, Lensmaker’s formula. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
• Scattering of light–blue color of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset. Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Interference Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width, Coherent sources, and sustained interference of light.
• Polarisation, plane polarised light Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarised light, and Polaroids.

Unit 15: Modern Physics

• Dual nature of Radiation
• Photo Electric Effect
• Hertz and Lenard’s Observations
• Compton Effect
• Bragg’s Law
• Hall effect
• Davision Germer Experiment
• Rutherford’s model
• Composition and size of nucleus
• Radioactive Law
• Mass-energy relation

Unit 16: Electronic Devices

• Energy bands in conductors, semiconductors and insulators
• Semiconductor diode-1-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier
• Special purpose p-1 junction diodes: LED, photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode and their characteristics, Zener diode as a voltage regulator.

Test 

Subjects

Number of Marks

Number of Questions

Exam duration

Part I

General English

10

10

2 hours and 30 minutes

General Hindi

10

10

Part II

General knowledge & Current Affairs

10

10

Computer Literacy

10

10

Reasoning Ability

10

10

Pedagogy

20

20

Subject Concerned

80

80

Total

150

150