CBSE 12th Physics Exam 2024: Topics that will have high weightage this year

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Feb 15, 2024

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CBSE 12th Physics Exam will be conducted on March 4, 2024. Here are some high weightage topics for this year

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Electric Charges and Fields

Coulomb's law, electric field and potential due to a point charge, Gauss's law, electric field lines, electric dipole and its properties

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Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

Electric potential due to a point charge, potential due to an electric dipole, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor, combination of capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor

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Current Electricity

Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, series and parallel combinations of resistors, Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer,, heating effect of current

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Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, magnetic field due to a current-carrying straight wire, solenoid, and toroid, force on a moving charge in a magnetic field, and cyclotron.

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Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

Faraday's law, Lenz's law, induced emf and current, self and mutual inductance, AC generator and transformer and LC oscillations

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Electromagnetic Waves

Characteristics of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum, and their applications

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Optics

Reflection and refraction, Lensmaker's formula, refraction through a prism, dispersion of light, optical instruments, wave optics, Young's double-slit experiment, interference

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Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

Photoelectric effect, Einstein's photoelectric equation, particle nature of electromagnetic radiation, de Broglie wavelength

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Atoms and Nuclei

Atomic structure, Bohr's model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum, radioactive decay, nuclear reactions, and nuclear fission and fusion

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Electronic Devices

Semiconductor diode, junction transistor, logic gates, and communication systems

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