JEE Mains Physics Syllabus 2025 Out, Download PDF Chapter Wise

1. 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.
2. Statistic and Kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction.
3. Dynamics of uniform circular motion: Centripetal force and its applications.

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

1. Electric charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law forces between two point charges, forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution.
2. 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.
3. 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; Equipotential surfaces, Electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges in an electrostatic field.
4. Conductors and insulators, Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitor, combination of capacitors in series and in parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plate, Energy stored in a capacitor.

1. Electric current, Drift velocity, Ohm’s Law, electrical resistance, Resistances of different materials, V-I characteristics of Ohmic and non-ohmic conductors, Electrical energy and power, Electrical resistivity, color code for resistors; Series and parallel combinations of resistors; Temperature dependence of resistance.
2. Electric cell and its internal resistance, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and in parallel. Kirchhoffs laws andtheir applications. Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge. Potentiometer-principle and its applications.

1. Biot-Savart law and its application to the 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, Cyclotron.
2. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. The force between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of an ampere, Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field; Moving coil galvanometer, its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.
3. Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferro-magnetic substances.
4. Magnetic susceptibility and permeability, Hysteresis, Electromagnets and permanent magnets.

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

Radioactivity-alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties; radioactive decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.

1. Vernier callipers-its use to measure the internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel.
2. Screw gauge-its use to determine the thickness/diameter of thin sheet/wire.
3. Simple pendulum- dissipation of energy by plotting a graph between the square of amplitude and time.
4. Metre scale-mass of a given object by principle of moments.
5. Young’s modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire.
6. The surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents.
7. Co-efficient of viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring terminal velocity of a given spherical body.
8. Plotting a cooling curve for the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time.
9. Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube.
10. Specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii) liquid by method of mixture.
11. The resistivity of the material of a given wire using metre bridge, Ohm’s law.

Potentiometer-

• (i) Comparison of emf of two primary cells.
• (ii) Determination of internal resistance of a cell.
• Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method,
• The focal length of the following using the parallax method:

1. Concave mirror
2. Convex mirror and
3. Convex lens

• Plot of angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism.
• The refractive index of a glass slab using a traveling microscope.
• The characteristic curve of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias.
• Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and finding reserve breakdown voltage.
• Characteristic curves of a transistor and finding current gain and voltage gain.
• Identification of diode, LED, Transistors, IC, Resistor, and capacitor from a mixed collection of such items.
• Using a multimeter to:

1. Identify the base of a transistor
2. Distinguish between npn and pnp type transistor
3. See the unidirectional flow of current in the case of a diode and an LED.
4. Check the correctness or otherwise of a given electronic component (diode, transistor, or IC).