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NEET UG 2026 Physics Syllabus

Unit

Topics

Unit 1: Physics and Measurement

- Units of measurements, System of Units, SI Units, fundamental and derived units, least count, significant figures, Errors in measurements, Dimensions of Physics quantities, dimensional analysis, and its applications.

Unit 2: Kinematics

- The 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, position-time graph, relations for uniformly accelerated motion, Scalars and Vectors, Vector addition and subtraction, scalar and vector products, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector, Relative Velocity, Motion in a plane, Projectile Motion, Uniform Circular Motion.

Unit 3: Laws of Motion

- Force and inertia, Newton’s First law of motion; Momentum, Newton’s Second Law of motion, Impulses; 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. Dynamics of uniform circular motion: centripetal force and its applications: vehicle on a level circular road, vehicle on a banked road.

Unit 4: Work, Energy, and Power

- Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, power. The potential energy of spring, conservation of mechanical energy, conservative and non-conservative forces; motion in a vertical circle: Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions.

Unit 5: Rotational Motion

- Centre of the mass of a two-particle system, Centre of the mass of a rigid body; Basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force; torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and its applications; The moment of inertia, the radius of gyration, values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, and their applications. Equilibrium of rigid bodies, rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion, comparison of linear and rotational motions.

Unit 6: Gravitation

- The universal law of gravitation. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth. Kepler’s law of planetary motion. Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential. Escape velocity, Motion of a satellite, orbital velocity, time period and energy of satellite.

Unit 7: Properties of Solids and Liquids

- Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's Law. Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal's law and its applications. Effect of gravity on fluid pressure. Viscosity. Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline, and turbulent flow. Critical velocity. Bernoulli's principle and its applications. Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure across a curved surface, application of surface tension - drops, bubbles, and capillary rise. Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat capacity, calorimetry; change of state, latent heat. Heat transfer-conduction, convection, and radiation.

Unit 8: Thermodynamics

- Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, the concept of temperature. Heat, work, and internal energy. The first law of thermodynamics, isothermal and adiabatic processes. The second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes.

Unit 9: Kinetic Theory of Gases

- Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas, Kinetic theory of gases - assumptions, the concept of pressure. Kinetic interpretation of temperature: RMS speed of gas molecules: Degrees of freedom. Law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases; Mean free path. Avogadro's number.

Unit 10: Oscillations and Waves

- Oscillations and periodic motion – time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time. Periodic functions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase: oscillations of a spring -restoring force and force constant: energy in S.H.M. - Kinetic and potential energies; Simple pendulum - derivation of expression for its time period: Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of travelling wave. 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.

Unit 11: Electrostatics

- Electric charges: Conservation of charge. Coulomb's law forces 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. Electric flux. Gauss's law and its applications to find field due to infinitely long uniformly charged straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet, and uniformly charged thin spherical shell. Electric potential and its calculation for a point charge, electric dipole and system of charges; potential difference, Equipotential surfaces, Electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of electric dipole in an electrostatic field. Conductors and insulators. Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitors and capacitances, the combination of capacitors in series and parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates. Energy stored in a capacitor.

Unit 12: Current Electricity

- Electric current. Drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current. Ohm's law. Electrical resistance. V-I characteristics of Ohmic and non-ohmic conductors. Electrical energy and power. Electrical resistivity and conductivity. Series and parallel combinations of resistors; Temperature dependence of resistance. Internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell, a combination of cells in series and parallel. Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications. Wheatstone bridge. Metre Bridge.

Unit 13: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

- Biot - Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop. Ampere's law and its applications to infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. The force between two parallel currents carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field: Moving coil galvanometer, its sensitivity, and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter. Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field. Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances with examples, effect of temperature on magnetic properties.

Unit 14: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

- 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: LCR series circuit, resonance: power in AC circuits, wattless current. AC generator and transformer.

Unit 15: Electromagnetic Waves

- Displacement current. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves, Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet. X-rays. Gamma rays), Applications of e.m. waves.

Unit 16: Optics

- Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces, thin lens formula and lens maker formula. Total internal reflection and its applications. Magnification. Power of a Lens. Combination of thin lenses in contact. Refraction of light through a prism. Microscope and Astronomical Telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Wave optics: wavefront and Huygens' principle. Laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens principle. Interference, Young's double-slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources, and sustained interference of light. Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum. Polarization, plane-polarized light: Brewster's law, uses of plane-polarized light and Polaroid.

Unit 17: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

- Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect. Hertz and Lenard's observations; Einstein's photoelectric equation: particle nature of light. Matter waves-wave nature of particle, de Broglie relation.

Unit 18: Atoms and Nuclei

- Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford's model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum. Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission, and fusion.

Unit 19: Electronic Devices

- Semiconductors; semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias; diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED. the photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND, and NOR).

Unit 20: Experimental Skills

- Familiarity with the basic approach and observations of the experiments and activities: Vernier calipers-its used to measure the internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel. Screw gauge-its used to determine thickness/ diameter of thin sheet/wire. Simple Pendulum-dissipation of energy by plotting a graph between the square of amplitude and time. Metre Scale - the mass of a given object by the principle of moments. Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire. Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents, Coefficient of Viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring terminal velocity of a given spherical body, Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube, Specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii) liquid by method of mixtures. The resistivity of the material of a given wire using a metre bridge. The resistance of a given wire using Ohm's law. Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method. The focal length of (i) Convex mirror (ii) Concave mirror, and (ii) Convex lens, using the parallax method. The plot of the angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism.

Refractive index of a glass slab using a travelling microscope. Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias. Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and finding reverse breakdown voltage. Identification of Diode. LED,. Resistor. A capacitor from a mixed collection of such items. 

Physics NEET Syllabus 2026

Physics Chapters/Topics

Average No. of Questions

Weightage (%)

Mechanical Properties of Solids

1

2%

Moving Charges and Magnetism

2

5%

Center of Mass & System of Particles

1

2%

Wave Optics

1

2%

Electromagnetic Induction

1

3%

Mechanical Properties of Fluids

2

3%

Electromagnetic Waves

2

3%

Rotational Motion

3

6%

Oscillations

1

3%

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

3

6%

Kinetic Theory of Gases

1

3%

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

2

3%

Gravitation

2

3%

Current Electricity

5

10%

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices, and Simple Circuits

3

5%

Units and Measurements

3

5%

Work, Energy, and Power

2

3%

Electric Charges and Fields

2

3%

Magnetism and Matter

1

1%

Atoms

1

3%

Nuclei

2

4%

Motion in a Plane

1

3%

Mathematical Tools & Vectors

1

1%

Laws of Motion

1

2%

Thermodynamics

1

2%

Waves

1

1%

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

3

5%

Alternating Current

2

4%

Thermal Properties of Matter

0

1%

Class

Chapter Name

No. of Questions

11th

Mechanical Properties of Fluids

1

11th

Laws of Motion

1

11th

Work, Energy and Power

1

11th

Circular Motion

1

11th

Center of Mass and System of Particles

1

11th

Kinetic Theory

1

11th

Motion in a Straight Line

2

11th

Rotational Motion

3

11th

Thermal Properties of Matter

1

11th

Oscillations

2

11th

Units and Measurements

3

11th

Thermodynamics

2

11th

Gravitation

2

11th

Waves

1

12th

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

2

12th

Moving Charges and Magnetism

3

12th

Current Electricity

3

12th

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

2

12th

Electromagnetic Waves

2

12th

Electromagnetic Induction

1

12th

Alternating Current

1

12th

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

2

12th

Wave Optics

2

12th

Electric Charges and Fields

1

12th

Atoms

2

12th

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

2

Class 11 Physics Topics

Class 12 Physics Topics

Units and Measurements

Electric Charges and Fields

- Significant Figures

- Charge, Coulomb's Law

- Errors in Measurement

- Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution

- Measuring Instruments

- Motion of a Charged Particle in Uniform Electric Field

- Mathematical Tools

- Electric Field Lines

- Binomial Expression and Approximation

- Electric Flux

- Functions & Graphs

- Gauss Law and Application

- Logarithms, Differentiation, and Integration

- Electric Dipole

Motion in a Straight Line

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

- Frame of Reference

- Electrostatic Potential/Potential difference

- Motion under Gravity (Free fall motion)

- Equipotential Surface

- Graph of 1D motion

- Electric potential due to dipole

- Variable acceleration

- Electrostatics of Conductor

Motion in a Plane

Current Electricity

- Vector addition, Resolution of vectors

- Electrostatics of Conductor

- Vector Projection

- Kirchhoff's Laws and Combination of Resistances

- Projectile motion

- Wheatstone Bridge and Symmetric Circuits

- Relative motion

- Electrical Measuring Instruments

- Circular motion

- RC Circuit

Newton's Laws of Motion

Moving Charges and Magnetism

- Newton's first law of motion

- Biot-Savart's Law

- Linear momentum

- Magnetic field due to a current-carrying Ring

- Free body diagram

- Ampere's Law and its Applications

- Newton's second law

- Force on a moving charge in a Magnetic Field

- Newton's third law

- Helical Path, Lorentz Force and Velocity Selector

- Working with Newton's second law

- Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor

Work, Power, and Energy

Magnetism and Matter

- Work

- Bar Magnet and its Properties

- Work-Energy Theorem

- Circular coil as magnetic dipole

- Conservative and non-conservative forces

- Tangent Galvanometer

- Potential energy

- Oscillation Magnetometer

- Equilibrium

- Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity

- Law of Conservation of Energy

- Classification of Magnetic Materials

- Power

- Ferromagnetism and Hysteresis

Centre of Mass & System of Particles

Electromagnetic Induction

- Centre of mass

- Magnetic Flux and Lenz's Law

- Head-on collision

- Calculation of Induced EMF

- Oblique collision

- Induced Electric Field

Rotational motion

- Self Inductance

- Moment of inertia

- Mutual Inductance

- Theorems of moment of inertia

- LC Oscillations and Transformer

- Radius of gyration

- Faraday's Law

- Angular momentum

Alternating Current

- Rolling motion

- Introduction to Alternating Current

- Rolling motion on inclined plane

- Average and RMS Values

Gravitation

- Types of AC Circuits, Power & Power Factor

- Law of gravitation

- Choke Coil, Series LCR Circuit and Resonant Frequency

- Acceleration due to gravity

- LC Oscillations and Transformer

- Gravitational potential energy

Electromagnetic Waves

- Gravitational potential

- Characteristics of Electromagnetic Waves

- Escape velocity

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

- Satellite motion

- Reflection from a plane mirror

- Kepler's law of planetary motion

- Reflection from spherical mirror

- Weightlessness

- Refraction from a plane surface

Mechanical Properties of Solids

- Total internal refraction

- Hooke's law

- Newton's formula

- Modulus of elasticity

- Combination of lens and mirror

- Young's modulus

- Displacement method to find the focal length

- Pressure

- Dispersion of light

- Buoyancy

- Optical instruments

- Buoyant force

Wave Optics

- Equation of continuity

- Nature of light

- Bernoulli's theorem

- Interference of light

- Viscosity

- Diffraction of light

- Surface tension

- Polarisation

Thermal Properties of Matter

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

- Thermal expansion

- Quantum theory of light

- Specific heat capacity

- Photoelectric effect

- Latent heat

Atoms

- Calorimetry

- Bohr's model

- Conduction, convection, and radiation

Nuclei

Kinetic Theory of Gases

- Mass-energy

- Ideal gases

- Nuclear size

- Kinetic theory of gases

- Nuclear stability

- Maxwell's law

- Binding energy

- Degree of freedom

- Nuclear energy

- Law of equipartition of energy

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

Thermodynamics

- PN Junction Diode

- Thermal equilibrium and zeroth law

- Application of P-N Junction Diode

- First law of thermodynamics

- Logic gates

- Different types of processes

- Carnot cycle and carnot engine

- Heat pump

Oscillations

- Periodic motion and oscillatory motion

- Simple harmonic motion (SHM)

- Equations of SHM

- Energy in SHM

- Time period of pendulum

- Oscillation of liquid column

Waves

- Characteristics of waves

- Progressive wave on string

- Characteristics of sound wave

- Principle of superposition of waves

- Stationary waves

- Echo

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