NEET 2022 Physics Syllabus: NCERT Class 12 Important Chapters

According to the revised NEET 2022 Exam Pattern, the NEET 2022 Physics paper will have 50 questions, split into two sections, Section A and section B. Wherein section A comprises 35 questions and section B with 15 questions, respectively. In section B, students will have the option to answer only 10 questions.

Check the NEET Exam Pattern 2022: Marking Scheme, Types of Questions, Total Questions | AESL here. 

Chapter 1: Electric Charges and Fields

Chapter 2: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

Chapter 3: Current Electricity

Chapter 4: Moving Charges and Magnetism

Chapter 5: Magnetism and Matter

Chapter 6: Electromagnetic Induction

Chapter 7: Alternating Current

Chapter 8: Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 9: Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

Chapter 10: Wave Optics

Chapter 11: Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

Chapter 12: Atoms

Chapter 13: Nuclei

Chapter 14: Semiconductor Electronics

• Coulomb’s law-force between two point charges, forces between multiple charges, superposition principle and continuous charge distribution. Electric charges and their conservation. 

• Electric field due to a point charge, electric field, electric field lines; electric field due to a dipole, electric dipole; torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field.

• Electric flux, statement of Gauss’s theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell (field inside and outside)

• Electric potential, electric potential due to a point charge, potential difference, a dipole and system of charges: equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and electric dipoles in an electrostatic field.

• Conductors and insulators, free charges and bound charges inside a conductor. Capacitors and capacitance, dielectrics and electric polarisation, the combination of capacitors in series and parallel, capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium between the plates, Van de Graaff generator, energy stored in a capacitor.

• The flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, electric current, drift velocity and mobility, and their relation with electric current; electrical resistance, Ohm’s law, electrical energy and power, V-I characteristics (linear and nonlinear), electrical resistivity, and conductivity.

• Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; parallel and series combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance.

• Potential difference and emf of a cell, internal resistance of a cell, the combination of cells in parallel and series.

• Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge. Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications. 

• Potentiometer principle and applications to measure potential difference and compare emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

• Biot-Savart law and its application to the current-carrying circular loop. Concept of the magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment. 

• Ampere’s law and its applicability to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids. Cyclotron. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. 
• The force between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Torque experienced by a current loop in a magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

• The magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Magnetic field intensity is due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; magnetic field lines, bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid; Earth’s magnetic elements and magnetic field.

• Para-, dia-and ferromagnetic substances, with examples.

• Permanent magnets. Electromagnetic factors affect their strengths. 

• Electromagnetic induction; Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Eddy currents, Lenz’s Law. Self and mutual inductance.

• Peak and RMS value of alternating current/ voltage, alternating currents; impedance and reactance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit, resonance; power in AC circuits, wattles current.

• AC transformers and generators.

• Need for displacement current.

• Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only). 

• Electromagnetic spectrum (microwaves, radio waves, visible, infrared, x-rays, ultraviolet, gamma rays) includes elementary facts about their uses.

• Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and applications to optical fibres, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula. Magnification and its combination of thin lenses in contact, a lens and a mirror, and the power of a lens. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.

• Scattering of the light-blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

• Optical instruments: Image formation and accommodation, a human eye, correction of eye defects (hypermetropia and myopia) using lenses.

• Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (refracting and reflecting) and their magnifying powers.

• Wave optics: Wavefront and Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction of plane waves at a plane surface using wavefronts.

• Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle.

• Young’s double hole experiment and expression for fringe width, Interference, coherent sources, and sustained light interference.

• Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum. 

• Resolving the power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes. Polarisation, polarised plane light; uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids, Brewster’s law.

• Hertz and Lenard’s observations, Photoelectric effect; Einstein’s photoelectric equation- particle nature of light.

• Matter waves- de Broglie relation, wave nature of particles. Davisson-Ger

• Rutherford’s model of atom; Alpha-particle scattering experiments; Bohr model, hydrogen spectrum, energy levels. Atomic masses, composition and size of nucleus, isotopes, isobars, and isotones.

• Mass-energy relation, mass defect; Radioactivity- alpha, beta and gamma particles/ rays and their properties decay law. Binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number, nuclear fission and fusion.

• Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), insulators and semiconductors, conductors; semiconductor diode- I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier; diode, I-V characteristics of LED, solar cell, and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator.

• Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator. Transistor as a switch. Logic gates (OR, NAND, NOT, AND and NOR). 

• Electrostatistics

• Atoms and Nuclei

• Electromagnetic Waves

• Magnetic effect of Current and Magnetism

• Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

• Alternating Current

• Electronic Devices

• Optics

• Electromagnetic Induction 

• Current Electricity