1st Year Physics Notes

Every chapter of the physics syllabus for 1st Year under the Punjab Board, in the order the book takes them. 20 chapters have a finished lesson — notes, worked examples, a graph you can move, flashcards and a quiz. The rest are mapped and being written.

Also called 11th Class, FSc Part 1, ICS Part 1, HSSC Part 1.

01

Measurements

▸Measurement & UnitsGetting the number right, and knowing how right it is · 16 min · 6 questions→

02

Force and Motion

▸MechanicsMotion, forces and energy · 24 min · 6 questions→▸Vectors & EquilibriumAdding quantities that point somewhere · 18 min · 6 questions→▸KinematicsDescribing motion: displacement, velocity, acceleration and the graphs · 28 min · 12 questions→▸MomentumThe quantity that survives every collision, and why it makes cars safer · 20 min · 8 questions→

03

Circular and Rotational Motion

▸Turning Effects of ForceMoments, couples, centre of gravity and stability · 22 min · 8 questions→▸Circular and Rotational MotionAngular quantities, centripetal force and the moment of inertia · 24 min · 8 questions→

04

Work, Energy and Power

▸Work, Energy & PowerThe bookkeeping that never fails to balance · 18 min · 6 questions→

05

Solids and Fluid Dynamics

▸Mechanical Properties of MatterDensity, pressure and elastic behaviour · 24 min · 8 questions→▸Solids and Fluid DynamicsElasticity, viscosity, Bernoulli and terminal velocity · 24 min · 8 questions→

06

Heat and Thermodynamics

▸Thermal Properties of MatterTemperature, expansion, specific heat capacity and latent heat · 26 min · 8 questions→▸Heat and ThermodynamicsGas laws, kinetic theory and the laws that limit every engine · 26 min · 8 questions→

07

Waves and Vibrations

▸Waves & SHMOscillation, superposition, resonance · 20 min · 6 questions→

08

Physical Optics and Gravitational Waves

▸Physical Optics and Gravitational WavesInterference, diffraction, polarisation — and waves in spacetime itself · 26 min · 8 questions→

09

Electrostatics and Current Electricity

▸ElectrostaticsCharges at rest, and the fields they create · 18 min · 6 questions→▸Electricity & MagnetismCharge, current, circuits and fields · 22 min · 6 questions→

10

Electromagnetism

▸Electromagnetic EffectsThe motor effect, electromagnetic induction, generators and transformers · 26 min · 8 questions→

11

Special Theory of Relativity

▸Special Theory of RelativityTime dilation, length contraction and E = mc² · 24 min · 8 questions→

12

Nuclear and Particle Physics

▸The Nuclear Model of the AtomProtons, neutrons, electrons, isotopes and the experiment that found the nucleus · 20 min · 8 questions→▸RadioactivityAlpha, beta and gamma, decay equations, half-life and safety · 26 min · 8 questions→