
ICSE (Class XII)
Syllabus (2013)
Subject: Physics
There will be two papers in the subject.
Paper I: Theory - 3 hour ... 70 marks
Paper II: Practical - 3 hours ... 20 marks
Project Work ... 7 marks
Practical File ... 3 marks
PAPER I -THEORY- 70 Marks
Paper I shall be of 3 hours duration and be divided into two
parts.
Part I (20 marks): This part will consist of compulsory short
answer questions, testing knowledge, application and skills relating to
elementary/fundamental aspects of the entire syllabus.
Part II (50 marks): This part will be divided into three
Sections A, B and C. There shall be three questions in Section A (each carrying
9 marks) and candidates are required to answer two questions from this Section.
There shall be three questions in Section B (each carrying 8
marks) and candidates are required to answer two questions from this Section.
There shall be three questions in Section C (each carrying 8 marks) and
candidates are required to answer two questions from this Section. Therefore,
candidates are expected to answer six questions in Part II.
Note: Unless otherwise specified, only S. I. units are to
be used while teaching and learning, as well as for answering questions.
SECTION A
1. Electrostatics
(i) Coulomb's law, S.I. unit of charge; permittivity of free
space.
(ii) Concept of electric field E = F/qo; Gauss' theorem and its
applications.
(iii) Electric dipole; electric field at a point on the axis and
perpendicular bisector of a dipole; electric dipole moment; torque on a dipole
in a uniform electric field.
(iv) Electric lines of force.
(v) Electric potential and potential energy; potential due to a
point charge and due to a dipole; potential energy of an electric dipole in an
electric field. Van de Graff generator.
(vi) Capacitance of a conductor C = Q/V, the farad; capacitance
of a parallel-plate capacitor;
(vii) Dielectrics (elementary ideas only); permittivity and
relative permittivity of a dielectric (∈r = ∈/∈o). Effects on pd, charge and
capacitance
2. Current Electricity.