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Physics Syllabus : CORE SYLLABUS of Physics, Chemistry, Biology (Higher Secondary Stage) have been prepared by NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING (NCERT) for Common Entrance Test ( CET ) National Entrance cum Eligibility Test ( NEET ) to be conducted by Medical Council of India for admission to MBBS

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Physics syllabus of class 11th
S.No. Topics Page No.
1 Information 5 – 7
2. Physical world and measurement 8
3. Kinematics 8
4. Laws of Motion 8

5. Work, Energy and Power 9
6. Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body 9
7. Gravitation 9
8. Properties of Bulk Matter 9 – 10
9. Thermodynamics 10
10. Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory 10
11. Oscillations and Waves 10 – 11
Physics syllabus of Class 12th
1. Electrostatics 12
2. Current Electricity 12
3. Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism 13
4. Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents 13
5. Electromagnetic Waves 13 – 14
6. Optics 14
7. Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation 14
8. Atoms and Nuclei 15
9. Electronic Devices 15
10. Communication System 15

PHYSICS
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INFORMATION
The syllabus for Physics at the Higher Secondary Stage has been developed with a view
that this stage of school education is crucial and challenging as it is transition from
general science to discipline-based curriculum. The recommendations of National
Curriculum Framework-2005 have been followed, keeping the disciplinary approach with
rigour and depth, appropriate to the comprehension level of learners. Due care has been
taken that the syllabus is not heavy and at the same time it is comparable to the
international standards. The syllabus provides logical sequencing of the subject matter
with proper placement of concepts with their linkages for better understanding.
It is expected that the syllabus will help to develop an interest in the learners to study
Physics as a discipline and inculcate in learners the abilities, useful concepts of Physics in
real-life situations for making learning of Physics relevant, meaningful and interesting.
The learner is expected to realize and appreciate the interface of Physics with other
disciplines.
RATIONALE
The higher secondary stage is crucial and challenging stage of school education as it a
transition from general science to discipline-based curriculum. Physics is being offered
as an elective subject at the higher secondary stage of school education. At this stage, the
students take up Physics, as a discipline, with a purpose of pursuing their future careers in
basic sciences or professional courses like medicine, engineering, technology and
studying courses in applied areas of science and technology at tertiary level. There is a
need to provide the learners with sufficient conceptual background of Physics which
would eventually make them competent to meet the challenges of academic and
professional courses after the higher secondary stage.
The present effort of reforming and updating the Physics curriculum is an exercise based
on the feedback received from the school system about existing syllabus and curricular
material, large expansion of Physics knowledge, and also the educational and curricular
concerns and issues provided in the National Curriculum Framework- 2005.
The recommendations of National Curriculum Framework-2005 have been followed,
keeping the disciplinary approach with rigour and depth, appropriate to the
comprehension level of learners. Due care has been taken that the syllabus is not heavy
and at the same time, it is comparable to the international standards. Also, it is essential
to develop linkages with other disciplines for better learning of Physics concepts and
establishing relationship with daily-life situations and life-skills.
SALIENT FEATURES

• Emphasis on basic conceptual understanding of content.
• Promoting process-skills, problem-solving abilities and applications of Physics
concepts/content, useful in real-life situations for making Physics learning more
relevant, meaningful and interesting.
• Emphasis on use of SI Units, Symbols, nomenclature of physical quantities and
formulations as per international standards.
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• Emphasis on Physics-related technological/industrial aspects to cope up with
changing demand of society committed to the use of Physics, technology and
informatics.
• Providing logical sequencing of the ‘Units’ of the subject matter and proper
placement of concepts with linkages for better learning and matching the
concepts/content with comprehension level of the learners.
• Reducing the curriculum load by eliminating overlapping of concepts/ content
within the discipline of Physics or with other disciplines, reducing the descriptive
portion and providing suitable formulation/depth of treatment appropriate to the
comprehension level of learners, making room for contemporary core-topics and
emerging curricular areas in Physics.
• The syllabus is arranged in Units spread over two years duration. The Units are
so sequenced as to provide different dimensions of Physics as a discipline. The
time allocation of learning Physics content per Units in terms of instructional
periods have been mentioned for each Unit to help the Textbook Development
Team members to develop the instructional material so as the cover it within the
time frame. Each Units has been arranged with a topic, content related practical
work (one core experiment, two activities to be evaluated) and suggested
investigatory projects (one project to be evaluated). There is an imperative need
for evaluating the learners through Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation of
various concepts covered in a Unit.
With this background, the Physics curriculum at the higher secondary stage attempts to:
• Strengthen the concepts developed at the secondary stage to provide firm ground
work and foundation for further learning Physics at the tertiary level more
effectively and learning the relationship with daily-life situations;
• Develop conceptual competence in the learners and make them realize and
appreciate the interface of Physics with other disciplines;
• Expose the learners to different processes used in Physics-related industrial and
technological applications;
• Develop process-skills and experimental, observational, manipulative, decisionmaking
and investigatory skills in the learners;
• Promote problem-solving abilities and creative thinking to develop interest in the
learners in the study of Physics as a discipline;
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• Understand the relationship between nature and matter on scientific basis, develop
positive scientific attitude, and appreciate the contribution of Physics towards the
improvement of quality of life and human welfare;
• Physics teaching-learning at the higher secondary stage enables the learners to
comprehend the contemporary knowledge and develop aesthetic sensibilities and
process skills. The experimental skills and process-skills developed together with
conceptual Physics knowledge prepare the learners for more meaningful learning
experiences and contribute to the significant improvement of quality of life. The
learners would also appreciate the role and impact of Physics and technology, and
their linkages with overall national development.
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CONTENTS CLASS XI SYLLABUS
UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement
Details:-
• Physics: Scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology and
society.
• Need for measurement: Units of measurement; systems of units; SI units,
fundamental and derived units. Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy
and precision of measuring instruments; errors in measurement; significant
figures.
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• Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications.
UNIT II: Kinematics
Details:-
• Frame of reference, Motion in a straight line; Position-time graph, speed and
velocity. Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous
velocity. Uniformly accelerated motion, velocity-time and position-time graphs,
for uniformly accelerated motion (graphical treatment).
• Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion.
Scalar and vector quantities: Position and displacement vectors, general vectors,
general vectors and notation, equality of vectors, multiplication of vectors by a
real number; addition and subtraction of vectors. Relative velocity.
• Unit vectors. Resolution of a vector in a plane-rectangular components.
• Scalar and Vector products of Vectors. Motion in a plane. Cases of uniform
velocity and uniform acceleration- projectile motion. Uniform circular motion.
UNIT III: Laws of Motion
Details:-
• Intuitive concept of force. Inertia, Newton’s first law of motion; momentum and
Newton’s second law of motion; impulse; Newton’s third law of motion. Law of
conservation of linear momentum and its applications.
• Equilibrium of concurrent forces. Static and Kinetic friction, laws of friction,
rolling friction, lubrication.
• Dynamics of uniform circular motion. Centripetal force, examples of circular
motion (vehicle on level circular road, vehicle on banked road).
UNIT IV: Work, Energy and Power
Details:-

• Work done by a constant force and variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy
theorem, power.
• Notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative forces;
conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies); nonconservative
forces; motion in a vertical circle, elastic and inelastic collisions in
one and two dimensions.
UNIT V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
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Details:-
• Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and centre of
mass motion. Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of uniform rod.
• Moment of a force,-torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular
momentum with some examples.
• Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equation of rotational motion,
comparison of linear and rotational motions; moment of inertia, radius of
gyration. Values of M.I. for simple geometrical objects (no derivation).
Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.
UNIT VI: Gravitation
Details:-
• Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The universal law of gravitation.
Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth.
• Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity, orbital
velocity of a satellite. Geostationary satellites.
UNIT VII: Properties of Bulk Matter
Details:-
• Elastic behavior, Stress-strain relationship. Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus, bulk
modulus, shear, modulus of rigidity, poisson’s ratio; elastic energy.
• Pressure due to fluid column; Pascal’s law and its applications (hydraulic lift and
hydraulic brakes). Effect of gravity of fluid pressure.
• Viscosity, Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, Reynold’s number, streamline and
turbulent flow. Critical velocity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.
• Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure,
application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
• Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; thermal expansion of solids, liquids, and
gases. Anomalous expansion. Specific heat capacity: Cp, Cv- calorimetry;
change of state – latent heat.
• Heat transfer- conduction and thermal conductivity, convection and radiation.
Qualitative ideas of Black Body Radiation, Wein’s displacement law, and Green
House effect.
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• Newton’s law of cooling and Stefan’s law.
UNIT VIII: Thermodynamics
Details:-
• Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of
Thermodynamics). Heat, work and internal energy. First law of
thermodynamics. Isothermal and adiabatic processes.
• Second law of the thermodynamics: Reversible and irreversible processes. Heat
engines and refrigerators.
UNIT IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
Details:-
• Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas.
• Kinetic theory of gases: Assumptions, concept of pressure. Kinetic energy and
temperature; rms speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equipartition
of energy (statement only) and application to specific heat capacities of gases;
concept of mean free path, Avogadro’s number.
UNIT X: Oscillations and Waves
Details:-
• Periodic motion-period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic
functions. Simple harmonic motion(SHM) and its equation; phase; oscillations of
a spring-restoring force and force constant; energy in SHM –Kinetic and potential
energies; simple pendulum-derivation of expression for its time period; free,
forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
• Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of wave motion.
Displacement relation for a progressive wave. Principle of superposition of
waves, reflection of waves, standing waves in strings and organ pipes,
fundamental mode and harmonics. Beats. Doppler effect.
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CONTENTS OF CLASS XII SYLLABUS
UNIT I: Electrostatics
Details:-
• Electric charges and their conservation. Coulomb’s law-force between two point
charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous
charge distribution.
• Electric field, electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric
dipole, electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field.
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• Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to
infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly
charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside)
• Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a
dipole and system of charges: equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of
a system of two point charges and of electric diploes in an electrostatic field.
• Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor.
Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitance, combination of
capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with
and without dielectric medium between the plates, energy stored in a capacitor,
Van de Graaff generator.
UNIT II: Current Electricity
Details:-
• Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and
mobility, and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance,
V-I characteristics (liner and non-linear), electrical energy and power, electrical
resistivity and conductivity.

• Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; series and parallel
combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance.
• Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of
cells in series and in parallel.
• Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge.
• Potentiometer-principle and applications to measure potential difference, and for
comparing emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell.
UNIT III: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism
Details:-
• Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment. Biot-Savart law and its
application to current carrying circular loop.
• Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and
toroidal solenoids. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric
fields. Cyclotron.
• Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force
between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Torque
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experienced by a current loop in a magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its
current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.
• Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Magnetic
dipole moment of a revolving electron. Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic
dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a
magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar magnet as an
equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic
elements.
• Para-, dia-and ferro-magnetic substances, with examples.
• Electromagnetic and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.
UNIT IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents
Details:-
• Electromagnetic induction; Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Lenz’s Law,
Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance.
• Alternating currents, peak and rms value of alternating current/ voltage; reactance
and impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit,
resonance; power in AC circuits, wattles current.
• AC generator and transformer.
UNIT V: Electromagnetic Waves
Details:-
• Need for displacement current.
• Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only).
Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves.
• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet,
x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses.
UNIT VI: Optics
Details:-
• Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total
internal reflection and its applications optical fibres, refraction at spherical
surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens-maker’s formula. Magnification, power
of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact combination of a lens and a mirror.
Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
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• Scattering of light- blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at
sunrise and sunset.
• Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation,
correction of eye defects (myopia and hypermetropia) using lenses.
• Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their
magnifying powers.
• Wave optics: Wavefront and Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction of
plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts.
• Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle.
• Interference, Young’s double hole experiment and expression for fringe width,
coherent sources and sustained interference of light.
• Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum.
• Resolving power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes. Polarisation, plane
polarized light; Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarized light and Polaroids.
UNIT VII: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation
Details:-
• Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric
equation- particle nature of light.
• Matter waves- wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation. Davisson-Germer
experiment (experimental details should be omitted; only conclusion should be
explained).
UNIT VIII: Atoms and Nuclei
Details:-
• Alpha- particle scattering experiments; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model,
energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic
masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones.
• Radioactivity- alpha, beta and gamma particles/ rays and their properties decay
law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its
variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.
UNIT IX: Electronic Devices
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Details:-
• Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), conductors, insulators and
semiconductors; semiconductor diode- I-V characteristics in forward and reverse
bias, diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell, and
Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Junction transistor, transistor
action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter
configuration) and oscillator. Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR).
Transistor as a switch .
UNIT X: Communication System
Details:-
• Elements of a communication system (block diagram only); bandwidth of signals
(speech, TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium. Propagation of
electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky and space wave propagation. Need
for modulation. Production and detection of an amplitude –modulated wave.