CBSE Class 12 Physics: chapter-wise study guide

Electric Charges and Fields

• Coulomb's Law and Superposition
• Electric Dipole
• Gauss's Law and Its Applications

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

• Electric Potential and Potential Energy
• Parallel Plate Capacitor and Dielectrics
• Combination of Capacitors and Energy Stored

Energy stored in a capacitor: formulae only, no derivation.

Current Electricity

• Drift Velocity, Mobility and Resistivity
• EMF, Internal Resistance and Cells
• Kirchhoff's Rules and Wheatstone Bridge

Moving Charges and Magnetism

• Motion of a Charge in a Magnetic Field
• Torque on a Current Loop and Magnetic Dipole
• Moving Coil Galvanometer

The straight solenoid is treated qualitatively only.

Magnetism and Matter

• Bar Magnet as an Equivalent Solenoid
• Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity
• Diamagnetic, Paramagnetic and Ferromagnetic Substances

Bar magnet as a solenoid, its axial and equatorial field and the torque on it are qualitative only.

Electromagnetic Induction

• Faraday's and Lenz's Laws
• Motional EMF
• Self and Mutual Inductance

Alternating Current

• AC Through Resistor, Inductor and Capacitor
• Series LCR Circuit and Resonance
• Transformer

The series LCR circuit is done with phasors only.

Electromagnetic Waves

• Displacement Current
• Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
• Electromagnetic Spectrum

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

• Total Internal Reflection
• Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and Lenses
• Microscopes and Telescopes

Wave Optics

• Huygens Principle and Wavefronts
• Young's Double Slit Experiment
• Single Slit Diffraction

Fringe width is quoted without derivation, single-slit diffraction is qualitative, and polarisation is not in the syllabus.

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

• Photoelectric Effect: Experimental Study
• Einstein's Photoelectric Equation
• de Broglie Wavelength

Atoms

• Alpha-Particle Scattering and Rutherford's Model
• Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
• Energy Levels and Hydrogen Spectrum

Hydrogen line spectra are qualitative only.

Nuclei

• Composition, Size and Density of Nucleus
• Mass Defect and Binding Energy
• Nuclear Fission and Fusion

Radioactivity and radioactive decay are not in the syllabus.

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors
• p-n Junction and Diode Characteristics
• Diode as a Rectifier

Energy bands are qualitative; the only diode application is the rectifier.