JEE Advanced Syllabus 2024, Download Syllabus PDF at jeeadv.ac.in

1. Multiple Choice Questions
2. Numerical Questions
3. Match the column

Least count, significant figures

Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments.

• Experiments based on using Vernier calipers and screw gauge
• Determination of g using a simple pendulum
• Young’s modulus by Searle’s method
• Specific heat of a liquid using a calorimeter
• The focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using UV method
• Speed of sound using resonance column
• Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter
• The specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box

Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Staticand dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.

Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.

Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of the inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes, Angular momentum; Torque.

Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid bodies Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns; Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases, Doppler effect (in sound)

Newton’s law of cooling, Ideal gas laws, Specific heats (CV and CP for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work.

First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases), Blackbody radiation- absorptive and emissive powers, Kirchhoff’s law, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Capacitance- Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics, Capacitors in series and parallel, Energy stored in a capacitor.

Electric current, Ohm’s law- Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.  Biot–Savart’s law and Ampere’s law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid, Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

The magnetic moment of a current loop, Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance, RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources

Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

Photoelectric effect, Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms, Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law, de Broglie wavelength of matter waves

Quadratic equations with real coefficients, relations between roots and coefficients, formation of quadratic equations with given roots, symmetric functions of roots.

Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, sums of finite arithmetic and geometric progressions, infinite geometric series, sums of squares and cubes of the first n natural numbers

Logarithms and their properties

Permutations and combinations, binomial theorem for a positive integral index, properties of binomial coefficients.

Inverse of a square matrix of order up to three, properties of these matrix operations, diagonal, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices and their properties, solutions of simultaneous linear equations in two or three variables

Bayes Theorem, independence of events, computation of probability of events using permutations and combinations

Relations between sides and angles of a triangle, sine rule, cosine rule, half-angle formula and the area of a triangle, inverse trigonometric functions (principal value only).

Equation of a straight line in various forms, angle between two lines, distance of a point from a line

Lines through the point of intersection of two given lines, equation of the bisector of the angle between two lines, concurrency of lines; Centroid, orthocentre, incentre and circumcentre of a triangle.

Equation of a circle in various forms, equations of tangent, normal and chord.

Parametric equations of a circle, intersection of a circle with a straight line or a circle, equation of a circle through the points of intersection of two circles and those of a circle and a straight line.

Equations of a parabola, ellipse and hyperbola in standard form, their foci, directrices and eccentricity, parametric equations, equations of tangent and normal.

Locus problems

Three dimensions: Direction cosines and direction ratios, equation of a straight line in space, equation of a plane, distance of a point from a plane

Limit and continuity of a function, limit and continuity of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, L’Hospital rule of evaluation of limits of functions.

Even and odd functions, the inverse of a function, continuity of composite functions, the intermediate value property of continuous functions.

Derivative of a function, a derivative of the sum, difference, product and quotient of two functions, chain rule, derivatives of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions.

Derivatives of implicit functions, derivatives up to order two, geometrical interpretation of the derivative, tangents and normals, increasing and decreasing functions, maximum and minimum values of a function, Rolle’s theorem and Lagrange’s mean value theorem

Integration by parts, integration by the methods of substitution and partial fractions, application of definite integrals to the determination of areas involving simple curves.

Formation of ordinary differential equations, solution of homogeneous differential equations, separation of variables method, linear first order differential equations.

Scalar triple products and their geometrical interpretations