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The CBSE Class 12 Physics syllabus for 2024-25 includes a theory paper worth 70 marks and practicals worth 30 marks, totaling 100 marks. Key units cover topics such as electrostatics, current electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, optics, dual nature of matter, atomic structure, and electronic devices. Each unit consists of various subtopics that detail fundamental principles and applications in physics.

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? CBSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus

The CBSE Class 12 Physics syllabus for 2024-25 includes a theory paper worth 70 marks and practicals worth 30 marks, totaling 100 marks. Key units cover topics such as electrostatics, current electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, optics, dual nature of matter, atomic structure, and electronic devices. Each unit consists of various subtopics that detail fundamental principles and applications in physics.

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📘 CBSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus (2024–25)

📂 Theory Paper – 70 Marks

📂 Practical – 30 Marks

Total: 100 Marks

🔹 Unit I: Electrostatics

1. Electric Charges and Fields

 Electric charges; conservation of charge

 Coulomb’s law-force between two point charges

 Forces between multiple charges; superposition principle

 Electric field, electric field lines

 Electric field due to a point charge

 Electric dipole, field due to a dipole

 Torque on a dipole in uniform electric field

 Electric flux, Gauss’s theorem and its applications

2. Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

 Electric potential, potential difference

 Potential due to a point charge, dipole and system of charges

 Equipotential surfaces

 Electric 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 capacitance

 Combination of capacitors in series and in parallel

 Capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor

 Energy stored in a capacitor

🔹 Unit II: Current Electricity

 Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor

 Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics

 Resistance of a system of resistors

 Resistivity, temperature dependence of resistance

 Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf

 Series and parallel combinations of cells

 Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications

 Wheatstone bridge

 Meter bridge

🔹 Unit III: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

3. Moving Charges and Magnetism

 Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment

 Biot – Savart law and its application to straight wire


 Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields

 Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field

 Torque experienced by a current loop

 Moving coil galvanometer – its current sensitivity and conversion to


ammeter and voltmeter

4. Magnetism and Matter

 Bar magnet, magnetic field lines

 Magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole

 Torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field

 Magnetic field of Earth and its magnetic elements

 Para-, dia-, and ferromagnetic substances

 Electromagnets and permanent magnets

🔹 Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

5. Electromagnetic Induction

 Faraday’s laws, induced emf and current

 Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents

 Self and mutual induction

6. Alternating Current

 AC voltage applied to a resistor, inductor, and capacitor

 Reactance and impedance

 LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only)


 LCR series circuit (resonance, power factor, wattless current)

 Transformer

🔹 Unit V: Electromagnetic Waves

 Basic idea of displacement current

 Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible,


ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays)

 Applications of EM waves

🔹 Unit VI: Optics

7. Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

 Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula

 Refraction at plane surface, total internal reflection and applications

 Refraction at spherical surfaces, lens formula

 Power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact

 Magnification

 Microscope and astronomical telescope (reflecting and refracting)

8. Wave Optics

 Wavefront and Huygens’ principle

 Reflection and refraction of plane wave

 Interference, Young’s double slit experiment and fringe width

 Diffraction due to a single slit


 Polarisation

🔹 Unit VII: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

 Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations

 Einstein’s photoelectric equation

 Particle nature of light

 Matter waves – wave nature of particles

🔹 Unit VIII: Atoms and Nuclei

9. Atoms

 Alpha-particle scattering experiment

 Bohr model of hydrogen atom

 Energy levels, hydrogen spectrum

10. Nuclei

 Composition and size of nucleus

 Mass-energy relation

 Nuclear binding energy

 Radioactivity and decay law

 Nuclear fission and fusion

🔹 Unit IX: Electronic Devices

 Semiconductors; semiconductor diode


 I-V characteristics of diode in forward and reverse bias

 Applications of junction diode: rectifier

 Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND, NOR) – truth tables

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