NAME OF THE STUDENT

CLASS XII SYLLABUS 2025-26

NO OF
NUMERICAL
TOPIC DONE PROGRESS
Unit I: Electrostatics
1. Electric charges: conservation of charge
2. Coulomb's law—force between two-point charges
3. Forces between multiple charges, superposition principle
4. Electric field lines
5. Electric dipole,
6. Electric field at axial position of the dipole
7. Electric field at equatorial position of the dipole
8. Electric field at general position of the dipole
9. Torque on a dipole in a uniform Electric field
10. Work done in rotating the dipole in the uniform magnetic field
11. Electric flux
12. Gauss's law
13. applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire,
14. uniformly charged infinite plane sheet
15. uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside).
16. Properties of the conductor
17. Electric potential
18. potential difference,
19. electric potential due to a point charge,
20. electric potential at axial position of the dipole
21. electric potential at equatorial position of the dipole
22. electric potential at general position of the dipole
23. equipotential surfaces,
24. electrical potential energy of a system of two-point charges
25. Potential energy in an external field
26. Conductors and insulators,
27. free charges and bound charges inside a conductor.
28. Dielectrics polar and non-polar
29. electric polarization,
30. capacitors and capacitance,
31. Principle of capacitor
32. combination of capacitors in series and in parallel,
33. capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium
between the plates,
34. energy stored in a capacitor (no derivation, formulae only).
35. Energy stored in a capacitor
36. Energy density
Unit II: Current Electricity
24. Electric current
25. Flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor
26. Thermal velocity, relaxation time mean free path
27. Drift velocity
28. Mobility
29. Current density
30. Ohm’s law
31. Electrical resistance
32. V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear)
33. Electrical energy and power
34. Electrical resistivity and conductivity
35. Deduction of ohm s law
36. Vector form of ohm s law
37. Temperature dependence of resistance
38. Internal resistance of a cell
39. Potential difference and emf of a cell
40. cell formula
41. Combination of cells in series and parallel and mixed
42. Kirchhoff’s laws first and second
43. Wheatstone bridge
44. Meter bridge

Unit III: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

41. Concept of magnetic field
42. Oersted’s experiment
43. Biot–Savart law
44. Magnetic field due to a current-carrying straight wire
45. Magnetic field due to a circular loop
46. Ampere’ law
47. Magnetic field due to a solenoid
48. Force on a moving charge in a uniform magnetic field
49. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
50. Torque on a current loop
51. Moving coil galvanometer—its current sensitivity ,voltage sensitivity
52. conversion into ammeter and voltmeter
53. Bar magnet,
54. bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid (qualitative treatment only),
55. magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis
and perpendicular to its axis (qualitative treatment only),
56. torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field
(qualitative treatment only),
57. magnetic field lines.
58. Magnetic properties of materials- Para-, dia- and ferro – magnetic
substances with examples,
59. Magnetization of materials,
60. effect of temperature on magnetic properties.

Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

61. Electromagnetic induction
62. Faraday's laws,
63. induced EMF and current
64. Lenz's Law
65. Motional emf
66. Self-induction
67. mutual induction.
Alternating Currents
68. Alternating currents
69. Peak and RMS value of alternating current/voltage
70. AC circuit with resistor
71. AC circuit with inductor
72. AC circuit with capacitor
73. LCR series circuit
74. Resonance in AC circuits
75. Power in AC circuits
76. Power factor
77. Wattless current
78. AC generator
79. Transformers

Unit V: Electromagnetic Waves

77. Need for displacement current
78. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics
79. Transverse nature of the em wave(qualitative idea)
80. Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible,
ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays)
81. Applications of EM waves

Unit VI: Optics

81. Reflection of light
82. Spherical mirrors, mirror formula
83. Refraction of light (snells law )
84. Total internal reflection and its applications,optical fibre
85. Refraction at spherical surfaces
86. Lenses and thin lens formula
87. Lens maker formula
88. Factors affecting the focal length
89. magnification
90. Power of lens
91. Combination of thin lenses in contact
92. Refraction through a prism
93. Dispersion of light
94. Optical instruments: microscope
95. astronomical telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying
powers
96. Wavefront and Huygens’ principle
97. Reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wave front
98. Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygen’s principle.
Interference,
99. Interference
100. coherent sources
101. sustained interference of light,
102. Young’s double slit experiment
103. Diffraction due to a single slit
104. Width of central maxima(qualitative treatment only)

Unit VII: Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

98. Dual nature of radiation,
99. Photoelectric effect,
100. Hertz and Lenard's observations;
101. Einstein's photoelectric equation-
102. particle nature of light.
103. Experimental study of photoelectric effect
104. laws of pef
105. Matter waves-wave nature of particles,
106. de-Broglie relation.

Unit VIII: Atoms and Nuclei

104. Alpha-particle scattering experiment;
105. Rutherford's model of atom;
106. Bohr model of hydrogen atom,
107. Expression for radius of nth possible orbit, velocity and energy of electron
in nth orbit,
108. hydrogen line spectra (qualitative treatment only).
109. Energy levels
110. Composition of nucleus
111. Size of nucleus
112. Mass-energy relation
113. Nuclear binding energy
114. Nuclear fission
115. fusion

Unit IX: Electronic Devices

115. Semiconductors—intrinsic and extrinsic
116. p-type and n-type semiconductors
117. p-n junction
118. Junction diode
119. I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias
120. Application of diode as rectifier