JEE Main Physics Syllabus 2025: PDF Download

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Updated on Jun 25, 2024 17:21 IST

NTA will soon release the JEE Main 2025 Syllabus for Physics. As per the
syllabus, many topics were reduced last year by the NTA while a few new
topics were added in the JEE Main Physics syllabus. Check the detailed
JEE Main Physics syllabus 2025 with topic-wise weighatge and best books.

JEE Main Physics Syllabus 2025: The NTA reduced the JEE Main
Syllabus f or Physics last year. As per the JEE Mains 2025 Reduced
Syllabus, the Communication Device chapter was removed. Candidates
can download the JEE Main 2025 Physics syllabus f rom the of f icial
website or the table below.

T h e Physics syllabus f or JEE Mains is divided into two sections,

Section A contains the theoretical part and Section B contains the
numerical or experimental skills. Both Section A and B of IIT JEE Physics
syllabus comprises topics f rom class 11 and 12 syllabus. Candidates

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can check below the complete JEE Physics syllabus with units and
topics that will be covered in JEE Main 2025.

Candidates are also provided here JEE Mains Physics weightage to

help students get an idea of topics which are covered with more
weightage over others. It is however advised that students study the
complete JEE Physics syllabus and leave no topic behind. Check below
the JEE Main Syllabus 2025 f or Physics.
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JEE Main Physics Syllabus 2025

The Physics syllabus f or JEE Mains is divided into Section A and Section
B. Check below the detailed JEE Physics syllabus f or both sections with
units and topics.

Section A
Units Topics

Physics and Physics, technology and society, S. I. Units,

Measurement f undamental and derived units, least count,
accuracy and precision of measuring
instruments, measurement errors, Dimensions
of Physics quantities, dimensional analysis and
its applications.

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Kinematics The f rame of ref erence, motion in a straight
line, Position- time graph, speed and velocity;
Unif orm and non-unif orm motion, average
speed and instantaneous velocity, unif ormly
accelerated motion, velocity-time, position-
time graph, relations f or unif ormly accelerated
motion, Scalars and Vectors, Vector. Addition
and subtraction, zero vector, scalar and vector
products, Unit Vector, Resolution of a Vector.
Relative Velocity, Motion in a plane, Projectile
Motion, Unif orm Circular Motion.

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 f orces.
Static and Kinetic f riction, laws of f riction,
rolling f riction. Dynamics of unif orm circular
motion: centripetal f orce and its applications

Work, Energy and Work done by a content f orce and a variable

Power f orce; kinetic and potential energies, work-
energy theorem, power. The potential energy
of spring conservation of mechanical energy,
conservative and neoconservative f orces;
Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two
dimensions.

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Rotational Motion Centre of the mass of a two-particle system,
Centre of the mass of a rigid body; Basic
concepts of rotational motion; a moment of a
f orce; torque, angular momentum,
conservation of angular momentum and its
applications; the moment of inertia, the radius
of gyration. Values of moments of inertia f or
simple geometrical objects, parallel and
perpendicular axes theorems and their
applications. Rigid body rotation equations of
rotational motion.

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, Orbital velocity of a
satellite. Geo stationary satellites.

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Properties of Solid Elastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship,
and Liquids Hooke's Law. Young's modulus, bulk modulus,
modulus of rigidity. Pressure due to a f luid
column; Pascal's law and its applications.
Viscosity. Stokes' law. terminal velocity,
streamline and turbulent f low. Reynolds
number. Bernoulli's principle and its
applications. Surf ace energy and surf ace
tension, angle of contact, application of
surf ace tension - drops, bubbles and capillary
rise. Heat, temperature, thermal expansion;
specif ic heat capacity, calorimetry; change of
state, latent heat. Heat transf er-conduction,
convection and radiation. Newton's law of
cooling

Thermodynamics Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of

thermodynamics, the concept of temperature.
Heat, work and internal energy. The f irst law of
thermodynamics. The second law of
thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible
processes. Carnot engine and its ef f iciency

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Kinetic Theory of Equation of state of a perf ect gas, work done
Gases on compressing a gas, Kinetic theory of gases
- assumptions, the concept of pressure.
Kinetic energy and temperature: RMS speed of
gas molecules: Degrees of f reedom. Law of
equipartition of energy, applications to specif ic
heat capacities of gases; Mean f ree path.
Avogadro's number.

Oscillation and Waves Periodic motion - period, f requency,

displacement as a f unction of time. Periodic
f unctions. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.)
and its equation; phase: oscillations of a
spring -restoring f orce and f orce constant:
energy in S.H.M. - Kinetic and potential
energies; Simple pendulum - derivation of
expression f or its time period: Free, f orced and
damped oscillations, resonance. Wave motion.
Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of a
wave. Displacement relation f or a progressive
wave. Principle of superposition of waves, a
ref lection of waves. Standing waves in strings
and organ pipes, f undamental mode and
harmonics. Beats. Doppler Ef f ect in sound

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Electrostatics Electric charges: Conservation of charge.
Coulomb's law-f orces between two point
charges, f orces between multiple charges:
superposition principle and continuous charge
distribution. Electric f ield: Electric f ield due to a
point charge, Electric f ield lines. Electric dipole,
Electric f ield due to a dipole. Torque on a
dipole in a unif orm electric f ield. Electric f lux.
Gauss's law and its applications to f ind f ield
due to inf initely long unif ormly charged straight
wire, unif ormly charged inf inite plane sheet and
unif ormly charged thin spherical shell. Electric
potential and its calculation f or a point charge,
electric dipole and system of charges;
Equipotential surf aces, Electrical potential
energy of a system of two point charges in an
electrostatic f ield. Conductors and insulators.
Dielectrics and electric polarization, capacitor,
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

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Current Electricity Electric current. Drif t velocity. Ohm's law.
Electrical resistance. Resistances of dif f erent
materials. V-l characteristics of Ohmic and
non-ohmic conductors. Electrical energy and
power. Electrical resistivity. Colour code f or
resistors; Series and parallel combinations of
resistors; Temperature dependence of
resistance. Electric Cell and its Internal
resistance, potential dif f erence and emf of a
cell, a combination of cells in series and
parallel. Kirchhof f ’s laws and their
applications. Wheatstone bridge. Metre Bridge.
Potentiometer - principle and its applications.

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Magnetic Ef f ects of Biot - Savart law and its application to current
Current and carrying circular loop. Ampere's law and its
Magnetism applications to inf initely long current carrying
straight wire and solenoid. Force on a moving
charge in unif orm magnetic and electric f ields.
Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying
conductor in a unif orm magnetic f ield. The
f orce between two parallel current carrying
conductorsdef inition of ampere. Torque
experienced by a current loop in a unif orm
magnetic f ield: Moving coil galvanometer, its
current 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
f ield lines; Earth's magnetic f ield and magnetic
elements. Para-, dia- and f erromagnetic
substances. Magnetic susceptibility and
permeability. Hysteresis. Electromagnets and
permanent magnets.

Electromagnetic Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law.

Induction and Induced emf and current: Lenz’s Law, Eddy
Alternating Current currents. Self and mutual inductance.
Alternating currents, peak and RMS value of
alternating current/ voltage: reactance and
impedance: LCR series circuit, resonance:
Quality f actor, power in AC circuits, wattless
current. AC generator and transf ormer.

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

Optics Ref lection and ref raction of light at plane and

spherical surf aces, mirror f ormula. Total
internal ref lection and its applications.
Deviation and Dispersion of light by a; prism;
Lens Formula. Magnif ication. Power of a Lens.
Combination of thin lenses in contact.
Microscope and Astronomical Telescope
(ref lecting and ref racting ) and their magnif ying
powers. Wave optics: wavef ront and Huygens'
principle. Laws of ref lection and ref raction
using Huygens principle. Interf erence, Young's
double-slit experiment and expression f or
f ringe width, coherent sources and sustained
interf erence of light. Dif f raction due to a single
slit, width of central maximum. Resolving power
of microscopes and astronomical telescopes.
Polarization, plane-polarized light: Brewster's
law, uses of plane-polarized light and Polaroid.

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Dual Nature of Matter Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric ef f ect.
and Radiation Hertz and Lenard's observations; Einstein's
photoelectric equation: particle nature of light.
Matter waves-wave nature of particle, de
Broglie relation. DavissonGermer experiment.

Atoms and Nuclei Alpha-particle scattering experiment;

Rutherf ord'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; radioactive
decay law. Mass-energy relation, mass def ect;
binding energy per nucleon and its variation
with mass number, nuclear f ission and f usion.

Electronic Devices Semiconductors; semiconductor diode: 1- V

characteristics in f orward and reverse bias;
diode as a rectif ier; I-V characteristics of LED.
the photodiode, solar cell and Zener diode;
Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Junction
transistor, transistor action, characteristics of
a transistor: transistor as an amplif ier
(common emitter conf iguration) and oscillator.
Logic gates (OR. AND. NOT. NAND and NOR).
Transistor as a switch.

Section B Experimental Skills

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S.No. Topics

1 Vernier callipers-its use to measure the internal and external

diameter and depth of a vessel.

2 Screw gauge-its use to determine 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 - the mass of a given object by principle of

moments.

5 Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire.

6 Surf ace tension of water by capillary rise and ef f ect of

detergents,

7 Co-ef f icient of Viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring

terminal velocity of a given spherical body,

9 Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance

tube

10 Specif ic heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii) liquid by

method of mixtures.

11 The resistivity of the material of a given wire using metre

bridge.

12 The resistance of a given wire using Ohm's law.

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14 Resistance and f igure of merit of a galvanometer by half
def lection method.

15 The f ocal length of

(i) Convex mirror

(ii) Concave mirror, and

(iii) Convex lens,

using the parallax method.

16 The plot of the angle of deviation vs angle of incidence f or a

triangular prism

17 Ref ractive index of a glass slab using a travelling microscope.

18 Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in f orward and

reverse bias.

19 Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and f inding reverse

break down voltage.

20 Characteristic curves of a transistor and f inding current gain

and voltage gain

21 Identif ication of Diode. LED, Transistor. IC. Resistor. A

capacitor f rom a mixed collection of such items.

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JEE Main Physics Weightage

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 Total
Chapters Weightage
Questions

Electrostatics 1 3.3%

Capacitors 1 3.3%

Simple Harmonic Motion 1 3.3%

Sound Waves 1 3.3%

Elasticity 1 3.3%

Error in Measurement 1 3.3%

Circular Motion 1 3.3%

Electromagnetic Waves 1 3.3%

Semiconductors 1 3.3%

Communication Systems 1 3.3%

Magnetic Ef f ect of Current and

2 6.6%
Magnetism

Alternating Current 2 6.6%

Kinetic Theory of Gases &

2 6.6%
Thermodynamics

Kinematics 2 6.6%

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 Work, Energy, and Power 2 6.6%

Laws of Motion 2 6.6%

Centre Of Mass 2 6.6%

Rotational Dynamics 2 6.6%

Modern Physics 2 6.6%

Wave Optics 2 6.6%

Current Electricity 3 9.9%

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Best Books for JEE Main Physics

Students must select the right book f or their JEE Main preparation. Books
play a more role in how much a student would score in the exam.
Candidates are provided here some of the best books f or JEE Main
Physics preparation recommended by subject experts and previous
toppers.

Best Physics Books for JEE Main

Name of Book Author/Publisher
NCERT Texbooks f or Class 11
NCERT
and 12
Understanding Physics f or JEE
Main & Advanced D.C. Pandey, Arihant Publications

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 Concepts of Physics, Volume 1
H.C. Verma
and 2
Fundamentals of Physics Halliday, Resnick and Walker
Problems and Solutions of
Sashi Bhusan Tiwari
Physics

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