NEET Physics Syllabus - NEET Vidyalay

UNIT 1: PHYSICS AND MEASUREMENT Completed

Units of measurements, System of Units, S I Units
Fundamental and derived units
Least count and significant figures
Errors in measurements
Dimensions of Physics quantities, dimensional analysis, and its applications

UNIT 2: KINEMATICS Completed

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

UNIT 3: LAWS OF MOTION Completed

Force and inertia, Newton's First law of motion
Momentum, Newton's Second Law of motion, and 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, and 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 Completed

Work done by a constant force and a variable force
Kinetic and potential energies, work-energy theorem, and power
Potential energy of a 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 Completed

Centre of mass of a two-particle system
Centre of mass of a rigid body
Basic concepts of rotational motion: moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum and applications
Moment of inertia, radius of gyration, and 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 Completed

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

UNIT 7: PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS AND LIQUIDS Completed

Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, and Hooke's Law
Young's modulus, bulk modulus, and 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, and critical velocity
Bernoulli's principle and its applications
Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess pressure across curved surfaces
Application of surface tension: drops, bubbles, and capillary rise
Heat, temperature, thermal expansion, specific heat capacity, calorimetry, change of state, and latent heat
Heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation

UNIT 8: THERMODYNAMICS Completed

Thermal equilibrium, Zeroth law of thermodynamics, and 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 Completed

Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas
Kinetic theory of gases assumptions, 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
Mean free path and Avogadro's number

UNIT 10: OSCILLATIONS AND WAVES Completed

Oscillations and periodic motion: time period, frequency, displacement, and periodic functions
Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation; phase
Oscillations of a spring: restoring force and force constant; 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 Completed

Electric charges: Conservation of charge, Coulomb's law, forces between multiple charges, and superposition principle
Continuous charge distribution
Electric field: Electric field due to a point charge, field lines, electric dipole, dipole electric field, and torque on a dipole
Electric flux and Gauss's law with applications (wire, sheet, spherical shell)
Electric potential, potential difference, Equipotential surfaces, and Electrical potential energy
Conductors and insulators, Dielectrics and electric polarization
Capacitors and capacitances: series/parallel combinations, parallel plate capacitor, and energy stored

UNIT 12: CURRENT ELECTRICITY Completed

Electric current, drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current
Ohm's law, electrical resistance, and V-I characteristics of conductors
Electrical energy, power, resistivity, and conductivity
Series and parallel combinations of resistors, and temperature dependence of resistance
Internal resistance, potential difference, emf, and combination of cells (series/parallel)
Kirchhoff's laws and their applications
Wheatstone bridge and Metre Bridge

UNIT 13: MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF CURRENT AND MAGNETISM Completed

Biot-Savart law and its application to current-carrying circular loops
Ampere's law and applications to straight wires and solenoids
Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields
Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
Force between parallel current-carrying conductors: definition of ampere
Torque on current loops; Moving coil galvanometer (sensitivity and conversion)
Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic moment
Bar magnet, magnetic field lines, and axial/perpendicular magnetic fields
Torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field
Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances, and temperature effect on magnetic properties

UNIT 14: ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND ALTERNATING CURRENTS Completed

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law, Induced emf and current, Lenz's Law, and Eddy currents
Self and mutual inductance
Alternating currents: peak and RMS value of AC current/voltage, reactance, and impedance
LCR series circuit, resonance, power in AC circuits, and wattless current
AC generator and transformer

UNIT 15: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES Completed

Displacement current
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, and transverse nature of e.m. waves
Electromagnetic spectrum (radio, micro, infrared, visible, UV, X-rays, gamma rays) and applications

UNIT 16: OPTICS Completed

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

UNIT 17: DUAL NATURE OF MATTER AND RADIATION Completed

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

UNIT 18: ATOMS AND NUCLEI Completed

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

UNIT 19: ELECTRONIC DEVICES Completed

Semiconductors and semiconductor p-n diodes (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
Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR)

UNIT 20: EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS Completed

Vernier calipers: measuring internal/external diameter and depth of a vessel
Screw gauge: determine thickness/diameter of thin sheets/wires
Simple Pendulum: plotting amplitude square vs time to study energy dissipation
Metre Scale: determine the mass of an object using the principle of moments
Young's modulus of elasticity of a metallic wire
Surface tension of water by capillary rise and detergent effects
Coefficient of Viscosity of a liquid by terminal velocity of a spherical body
Speed of sound in air using a resonance tube at room temperature
Specific heat capacity of solid & liquid by method of mixtures
Resistivity of a wire using a metre bridge
Resistance of a wire using Ohm's law
Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method
Focal length of: (i) Convex mirror, (ii) Concave mirror, and (iii) Convex lens
Plot of 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, and Capacitor from mixed collections