IIT-JEE Physics: Important topics and sub-topics

Marks wise break-up for the topics

Mechanics	27 per cent
Electricity and Magnetism	23 per cent
Modern Physics	14 per cent
Optics	12 per cent
Heat and thermodynamics	9 per cent
Waves and Sound	11 per cent
Measurements and Errors	4 per cent

Analysis of last year's question papers suggests that there is a hig probability of the following topics appearing:

• Field, Capacitors - Electrostatics
• Relative velocity, projectiles – Kinematics
• Vernier calipers & Searls apparatus – Measurements
• Heat transfer, Newton’s law of cooling – Thermal Physics
• Surface tension, Viscosity – Properties
• Resonance column, Organ pipes – Waves
• Kirchoff’s Laws – Electric Current
• Magnetic field due to current & Torque – Magnetism
• Photoelectric Effect, X -rays – Modern Physics
• AC circuit – EMI, AC
• Young’s double slit experiment – optics