MHT-CET Physics — Teaching Notes

Units, absolute errors, the mean and its mean absolute error, and how percentage errors combine through products and powers — every MHT-CET past-year question on units and measurement tagged.

Vector addition and products, the equations of motion and motion graphs, relative motion, projectiles, and uniform circular motion — every MHT-CET past-year question on motion in a plane tagged.

Newton's laws in lifts, pulleys and circles, force, work and power, braking and penetration, impulse and collisions, and equilibrium with the centre of mass — every MHT-CET past-year question on laws of motion tagged.

Newton's law and the field of spheres and shells, how g varies with height, depth, density and latitude, gravitational potential energy and escape velocity, and satellites and Kepler's laws — every MHT-CET past-year question on gravitation tagged.

Spring constants, springs cut or joined, elastic energy, and what an impact does with its energy — every MHT-CET past-year question on the mechanical properties of solids tagged.

Temperature scales and thermal expansion, calorimetry, conduction through rods and slabs, and radiation — absorption and black bodies, Stefan's law, Wien's law and Newton's law of cooling — every MHT-CET past-year question on thermal properties tagged.

Sound waves, intensity and speed, organ pipes and their overtones, resonance tubes and beats, and the Doppler effect for a moving source and observer — every MHT-CET past-year question on sound tagged.

Mirrors, refraction with apparent depth and total internal reflection, the prism and dispersion, the lens formula, lensmaker's equation and combinations, and the microscope and telescope — every MHT-CET past-year question on ray optics tagged.

Circular motion (angular kinematics, banking, the vertical circle), moment of inertia and radius of gyration, the parallel and perpendicular axis theorems, torque and angular momentum, and rolling — MHT-CET Rotational Dynamics with every past-year question tagged.

Pressure with depth and buoyancy, surface tension and surface energy, drops splitting and merging, excess pressure in drops and bubbles, capillary rise, viscosity and terminal velocity, and continuity, Bernoulli and Torricelli — every MHT-CET past-year question tagged.

The gas laws, pressure from molecular motion, r.m.s. speed against temperature and mass, average kinetic energy, and degrees of freedom with the specific heats — every MHT-CET past-year question on kinetic theory tagged.

The first law and its sign convention, how heat splits at constant pressure, the four standard processes and their graphs, adiabatic relations, and the Carnot engine and refrigerator — every MHT-CET past-year question on thermodynamics tagged.

SHM displacement, velocity, acceleration and phase, damping, spring-mass systems and spring combinations, floating blocks and liquid columns, kinetic and potential energy in SHM, and the simple pendulum in lifts and orbits — every MHT-CET past-year question tagged.

The wave equation, phase and particle velocity, superposition of two waves, stationary waves and strings, open and closed pipes with end corrections, the Doppler effect, and beats with the sonometer — MHT-CET Superposition of Waves with every past-year question tagged.

Wavefronts and coherent sources, Young's double slit (fringe width, fringe positions, sheet shifts), interference intensity, single-slit diffraction and resolving power, and polarisation — MHT-CET Wave Optics with every past-year question tagged.

Coulomb's law and field superposition, Gauss's law, the dipole, potential and the energy of charges, then capacitors — combinations, dielectrics and stored energy. MHT-CET Electrostatics with every past-year question tagged.

E.m.f., internal resistance and cells together, Kirchhoff's current and voltage laws, the Wheatstone and metre bridges, the potentiometer, and converting a galvanometer into an ammeter or a voltmeter — every MHT-CET past-year question on current electricity tagged.

The Lorentz force and circular motion in a field, forces on wires and between parallel currents, magnetic moment, torque and the galvanometer, and the fields of straight wires, coils, arcs, solenoids and toroids — every MHT-CET past-year question tagged.

Magnetic dipole moment of magnets and orbiting electrons, magnetisation, susceptibility and permeability, the classes of magnetic material with Curie's law, and hysteresis and shielding — every MHT-CET past-year question on magnetic materials tagged.

Magnetic flux, Faraday's and Lenz's laws, induced charge, motional e.m.f. and rotating rods, self-inductance and the energy it stores, mutual inductance and coupling, and transformers and generators — every MHT-CET past-year question tagged.

Peak and r.m.s. values, reactance, series LCR impedance and phase, resonance and the quality factor, power factor and wattless current, LC oscillations, the transformer and the generator — MHT-CET AC Circuits with every past-year question tagged.

The photoelectric effect — intensity against frequency, Einstein's equation, the threshold from two readings, and the graphs — and the de Broglie wavelength of particles and accelerated electrons; every MHT-CET past-year question on dual nature tagged.

Bohr's orbits and how radius, speed and energy scale with n, the hydrogen spectral series and their line ratios, the radioactive decay law, alpha and beta counting, and binding energy — every MHT-CET past-year question on atoms and nuclei tagged.

Energy bands and doping, the p-n junction and its biasing, diode circuits and rectifiers, Zener, LED, photodiode and solar cell, the transistor and CE amplifier, and logic gates — MHT-CET Semiconductor Devices with every past-year question tagged.