NEET Physics Syllabus 2024 – Download PDF, Chapter wise Weightage

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

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.

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.

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.

Simple pendulum – derivation of expression for its time period:

Wave motion. Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of traveling 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• Vernier calipers- its use to measure the internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel.
• Screw gauge- its use 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,
• Co-efficient of Viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring the 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
  (iii) Convex lens, using the parallax method.
• The plot of the angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism.
• The refractive index of a glass slab using a traveling 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.