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CUET (UG) Physics Syllabus 2024

The CUET (UG) Physics Syllabus for the CUET (UG) 2024 is available by the National Testing Agency. The CUET (UG) Physics Syllabus is available for review from the link below. The CUET (UG) 2024 Physics syllabus defines and describes each unit covered on the CUET (UG) 2024 Physics exam.

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NTA Entrance Exam Physics Revised Syllabus

NTA Entrance Exam Physics and their Unit wise marks distribution

Units and Topics

#Unit/TopicWeightage
1  Electrostatics 
2  Current Electricity 
3  Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism 
4  Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents 
5  Electromagnetic Waves 
6  Optics 
7  Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation 
8  Atoms and Nuclei 
9  Electronic Devices 
10  Communication Systems 
 Total -
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Syllabus

1 Electrostatics
  • Electric Charges  
    • Point charge
    • Test charge
  • Basic Properties of Electric Charge  
    • Additive Nature of Charge
    • Quantization of Charge
    • Conservation of Charge
    • Forces between Charges
  • Coulomb’s Law - Force Between Two Point Charges  
    • Scalar form of Coulomb’s Law
    • Relative Permittivity or Dielectric Constant
    • Definition of Unit Charge from the Coulomb’s Law
    • Coulomb’s Law in Vector Form
  • Force Between Two Point Charges  
  • Superposition Principle - Forces Between Multiple Charges  
    • Superposition principle
    • Forces between multiple charges
  • Continuous Distribution of Charges  
    • Continuous distribution of charges
    • Types of charge distribution
      1) Linear charge distribution
      2) Surface charge distribution
      3) Volume charge distribution
  • Electric Field  
    • Electric Field Intensity due to a Point Charge in a Material Medium
    • Practical Way of Calculating Electric Field
    • Electric Lines of Force
    • Electric field intensity
    • Introduction of Electric Field  
    • Physical Significance of Electric Field  
    • Electric Field Due to a System of Charges  
  • Electric Field Due to a Point Charge  
  • Electric Field Lines  
  • Electric Dipole  
    • The field of an electric dipole
    • The physical significance of dipoles
    • Couple Acting on an Electric Dipole in a Uniform Electric Field
    • Electric Intensity at a Point due to an Electric Dipole
    • Electric dipole moment (p)
    • Electric field intensity·due to an electric dipole at a point on its axial line
    • Electric field intensity due to an electric dipole at a point on the equatorial line
    • Electric field intensity at a general point due to short electric dipole
  • Dipole in a Uniform External Field  
    • Torque on a Dipole in Uniform Electric Fleld
    • Work of an electric dipole
  • Electric Flux  
    • Electric Flux
    • Tube of force
    • Tube of induction
    • Normal Electric Induction (NEI)
    • Total Normal Electric Induction (TNEI)
  • Gauss’s Law  
  • Applications of Gauss’s Law  
    • Statement of Gauss'S Theorem and Its Applications to Find Field Due to Infinitely Long Straight Wire
    • Field due to an infinitely long straight uniformly charged wire
    • Field due to a uniformly charged infinite plane sheet
    • Field due to a uniformly charged thin spherical shell - Field outside the shell, Field inside the shell
  • Uniformly Charged Infinite Plane Sheet and Uniformly Charged Thin Spherical Shell (Field Inside and Outside)  
  • Electric Potential  
  • Electric Potential Difference  
  • Potential Due to a Point Charge  
    • Electric Potential Due to Point Charge
  • Potential Due to an Electric Dipole  
  • Potential Due to a System of Charges  
    • system of charges
  • Equipotential Surfaces  
    • Equipotential surface
    • Properties of equipotential surface
    • Shapes of equipotential surface due to various charge distributions
  • Electrical Potential Energy of a System of Two Point Charges and of Electric Dipole in an Electrostatic Field  
    • Electric potential energy
    • Electric potential energy of a system of two point charges
    • Electric potential energy of an electric dipole in uniform electric field
    • Dipole-dipole interaction
    • Equilibrium of charges
    • Types of equilibrium
      1) Stable equilibrium
      2) Unstable equilibrium
      3) Neutral equilibrium
    • Different cases of equilibrium of charge
  • Conductors and Insulators Related to Electric Field  
  • Free Charges and Bound Charges Inside a Conductor  
  • Dielectrics and Polarisation  
    • Dielectrics
    • Types of dielectrics
      1) Polar dielectrics
      2) Non-polar dielectrics
    • Electric polarisation
    • Dielectric constant
    • Electric susceptibility of dielectric
  • Capacitors and Capacitance  
    • Capacitance
    • Redistribution of charges and concept of common potential
    • Capacitance of an isolated spherical conductor
    • Capacitor
    • Principle of a capacitor
    • Types of capacitor
      1) Parallel plate capacitor
      2) Spherical capacitor
      3) Cylindrical capacitor
    • Applications of capacitors
  • Combination of Capacitors  
    • Combination of Capacitors in Series and in Parallel
    • Wheatstone's bridge of capacitors
  • Capacitance of a Parallel Plate Capacitor with and Without Dielectric Medium Between the Plates  
    • Capacitance of parallel plate capacitor without dielectric medium
    • Capacitance of parallel plate capacitor with dielectric slab between the plates
  • Energy Stored in a Capacitor  
  • Van De Graaff Generator  
    • Principle
2 Current Electricity
  • Electric Current  
    • Ampere: Pioneer of Electric Current Measurement
    • Electric Current
  • Flow of Electric Charges in a Metallic Conductor  
  • Drift of Electrons and the Origin of Resistivity  
    • Drift velocity
    • Relaxation time
    • Mobility of electron
    • Relation of drift velocity with current
  • Ohm's Law (V = IR)  
    • Introduction
    • Limitations and Applications
  • Electrical Resistance  
  • V-I Characteristics (Linear and Non-linear)  
  • Electrical Energy  
    • Introduction
    • Applications of Electrical Energy
    • Storage of Electrical Energy
  • Electrical Power  
    • Electric power
    • Power-voltage rating
    • Power of electrical appliances connected in parallel
    • Power of electrical appliances connected in series
    • Power in mixed combination of cells
    • Practical units of electric energy in terms of power
    • Units of electrical power
  • Electrical Resistivity and Conductivity  
    • Electrical resistivity (specific resistance)
    • Conductivity
  • Resistivity of Various Materials  
    • Carbon resistors
    • Colour code for carbon resistors
  • Combination of Resistors - Series and Parallel  
  • Temperature Dependence of Resistance  
    • Temperature dependence of resistance
  • Cells, Emf, Internal Resistance  
    • E.M.F. and Internal Resistance of Cell
  • Potential Difference and Emf of a Cell  
  • Combination of Cells in Series and in Parallel  
    • Combination of cells in series and parallel
      1) Series combination of cells
      ⇒ Cells of different e.m.f's and internal resistances connected in series
      ⇒ For n identical cells in series (Assisting mode)
      2) Parallel combination of cells
      ⇒ For n identical parallel cells
      3) Mixed combination of cells
  • Kirchhoff’s Rules  
    • Kirchhoff's law
    • Kirchhoff's first law or Kirchhoff's current law (KCL)
    • Kirchhofrs second law or Kirchhoff's voltage law (KVL)
    • Applications of Kirchhoff's law
    • Wheatstone’s bridge
    • Meter bridge
    • Potentiometer
    • Comparison of emf of two cells with a potentiometer
    • Measurement of internal resistance of a cell by potentiometer
  • Wheatstone Bridge  
    • Wheatstone bridge
    • Balanced bridge
    • Unbalanced bridge
    • Different Measuring Instruments
  • Metre Bridge  
    • Metre bridge or slide-wire bridge
    • Applications of metre bridge
    • Measurement of unknown resistance (S)
    • Comparison of two unknown resistances
    • Measurement of unknown temperature
    • Measurement of unknown resistance of a galvanometer (Kelvin's method)
  • Potentiometer  
    • Potentiometer Principle
    • Applications to measure potential difference
    1. To Compare emf. of Cells
    2. To Find Internal Resistance (r) of a Cell
    3. Application of potentiometer
    1. Voltage Divider
    2. Audio Control
    3. Potentiometer as a senor
    • Advantages of a Potentiometer Over a Voltmeter
    1. Merits
    2. Demerits
  • Measurement of Internal Resistance of a Cell  
3 Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism
4 Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents
5 Electromagnetic Waves
  • Displacement Current  
    • Need for displacement current
    • Ampere-Maxwell's circuital law
    • Displacement current
    • Conduction current
    • Origin of electromagnetic waves
    • Maxwell's equations
      1) Gauss' law in electrostatics
      2) Gauss' law in magnetism
      3) Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction
      4) Ampere - Maxwell's law
  • Electromagnetic Waves  
    • Sources of electromagnetic waves: Hertz's experiment
    • Nature of electromagnetic waves
    • Speed of electromagnetic waves
    • Production and properties of electromagnetic waves
    • Electromagnetic Waves and Their Characteristics
      1) Energy density
      2) Poynting vector
      3) Momentum
  • Transverse Nature of Electromagnetic Waves  
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum  
    • Electromagnetic spectrum (Discovered by, Wavelength range, Production, Detection, Characteristics, applications
    1. Gamma rays (γ-rays)
    2. X-rays
    3. Ultraviolet rays (UV rays)
    4. Visible light
    5. Infrared rays
    6. Microwaves
    7. Radio waves
    • Approximate ranges of wavelength and frequency
    • Properties common to all the electromagnetic waves
  • Elementary Facts About Electromagnetic Wave Uses  
6 Optics
  • Reflection of Light  
    • Introduction
    • Activity
    • Experiment
  • Reflection of Light by Spherical Mirrors  
    • Sign convention
    • Focal length of spherical mirrors
    • The mirror equation
  • Ray Optics - Mirror Formula  
  • Refraction  
  • Total Internal Reflection  
    • Total Internal Reflection
    • Essential conditions for the total internal reflection
    • Total internal reflection in nature - optical fibres
    • Rainbow production
    • Refraction and total internal reflection of light rays at different angles of incidence
    • Consequences of total internal refraction
    • Applications of total internal reflection
  • Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and Lenses  
    • Refraction at Spherical Surfaces  
      • Refraction at spherical surfaces
      1. Refraction from rarer to denser medium
      2. Refraction from denser medium to rarer medium
    • Refraction by a Lens  
    • Combination of Thin Lenses in Contact  
      • Equivalent lens (Two thin lenses placed in contact)
      • Combination of a lens and a mirror:
        ⇒ Effect of silvering, one of the refracting surfaces of a lens
      • Defects in lenses
        1) Chromatic aberration
        2) Spherical aberration
        ⇒ Methods to reduce spherical aberrations in lenses
        3) Coma
        4) Curvature
  • Thin Lens Formula  
  • Lens Maker's Formula  
  • Magnification  
  • Power of a Lens  
  • Refraction Through a Prism  
  • Dispersion by a Prism  
  • Applications of Scattering of Light  
    • Applications of Scattering of Light
    1. Red colour of sun at sunrise and sunset
    2. White colour of sky at noon
    3. Blue colour of sky
    4. Black colour of sky in absence of atmosphere
    5. White colour of clouds
    6. Use of red light for the danger signal
  • Optical Instruments  
  • Optical Instruments: Simple Microscope  
    1. Near point focusing
    2. Normal focusing
    3. Resolving power of microscope
    4. Resolving power of telescope
  • Optical Instruments: Compound Microscope  
    1. Magnification in compound microscope
  • Optical Instruments: Telescope  
    1. Astronomical telescope and Magnification in astronomical telescope
    2. Terrestrial telescope
    3. Reflecting telescope
  • Optical Instruments: the Eye  
    1. Nearsightedness (myopia)
    2. Farsightedness (hypermetropia)
    3. Astigmatism
  • Working of the Human Eye  
    • Image Formation and Light Control
    • Vision Range and Optical Properties
  • Eye Defect and Its Correction: Myopia Or Near-sightedness  
    • Myopia and Its Causes
    • Types and Symptoms of Myopia
    • Myopia Correction and Treatment
  • Eye Defect and its Correction: Hypermetropia or Far-sightedness  
    • Hypermetropia and Its Causes
    • Types and Symptoms of Hypermetropia
    • Hypermetropia Correction and Treatment
  • Introduction of Wave Optics  
    • Wave Optics
    • Newton's Corpuscular Theory of light
    • Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory
    • Huygens' Wave Theory of light
    • Merits of Huygens' Wave Theory
    • Limitations of Huygens' wave theory
    • Properties of Luminiferous Ether
  • Huygens' Principle  
    • Wavefront
    • Wave normal
    • Wave surface
    • Huygens' Principle
    • Spherical Wavefront
    • Plane Wavefront
    • Cylindrical wavefront
  • Reflection and Refraction of Plane Wave at a Plane Surface Using Wave Fronts  
  • Proof of Laws of Reflection and Refraction Using Huygens' Principle  
    • Proof of laws of reflection by using Huygens' principle
    • Proof of laws of refraction using Huygens' Principle
  • Interference  
  • Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment  
    • Young's Double Slit Experiment and Expression for Fringe Width or Young’s Experiment
    • Young's double-slit experiment: set up, diagram, geometrical deduction of path difference ∆x = dsinθ, between waves from the two slits
    • Using ∆x = nλ for bright fringe and ∆x = (n + ½)λ for dark fringe and sin θ = tan θ = yn/D as y and θ are small, obtain yn = (D/d)nλ and fringe width β = (D/d)λ.
    • Graph of distribution of intensity with angular distance.
  • Coherent and Incoherent Sources and Sustained Interference of Light  
    • Coherent sources
    • Incoherent sources
    • Sustained interference pattern
    • Conditions necessary to obtain sustained (steady) interference pattern
  • Fraunhofer Diffraction Due to a Single Slit  
    • Single slit Fraunhofer diffraction (elementary explanation only)
    • Formulae based comparison between secondary maxima and minima
    • Diffraction at a single slit: experimental setup, diagram, diffraction pattern, obtain an expression for the position of minima, a sinθn = nλ, where n = 1, 2, 3 … and conditions for secondary maxima, asinθn = (n + ½)λ.
    • Distribution of intensity with angular distance
    • Diffraction at plane grating
    • Diffraction due to circular aperture
    • Comparison between interference and diffraction
    • Fresnel distance
  • Width of Central Maximum  
  • Diffraction of Light  
    • Resolving Power of Microscope and Astronomical Telescope  
      • Resolution of images
      • Rayleigh's criterion for resolution
      • Resolving the power of an optical instrument
      • Resolving power of microscope
      • Resolving power of telescopes
    • Seeing the Single Slit Diffraction Pattern  
    • The Single Slit  
    • The Validity of Ray Optics  
  • Polarisation  
    • Method of producing polarised light
    1. Polarisation by reflection
    2. By Dichroism
    3. By double refraction
    4. Nicol prism
    5. By scattering
    • Uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids
  • Plane Polarised Light  
  • Brewster's Law  
7 Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation
  • Photoelectric Effect and Wave Theory of Light  
  • Photoelectric Effect - Hertz’s Observations  
  • Photoelectric Effect - Hallwachs’ and Lenard’s Observations  
    • Hertz and Lenard's Observations
    • Hallwach and Lenard's Experiment
  • Einstein’s Equation - Particle Nature of Light  
    • Einstein's equation Emax = hυ - W0; threshold frequency
    • Einstein used Planck’s ideas and extended it to apply for radiation (light); the photoelectric effect can be explained only assuming the quantum (particle) nature of radiation.
    • Determination of Planck’s constant (from the graph of stopping potential Vs versus frequency f of the incident light).
    • Momentum of photon p = E/c = hν/c = h/λ.
  • Wave Nature of Matter  
    • Matter waves
    • De Broglie wave relation
    • De Broglie wavelength of an electron
    • Ratio of de Broglie wavelengths of photon and electron
  • de-Broglie Relation  
    • De Broglie hypothesis, phenomenon of electron diffraction (qualitative only).
    • Wave nature of radiation is exhibited in interference, diffraction and polarisation; particle nature is exhibited in photoelectric effect.
    • Dual nature of matter: particle nature common in that it possesses momentum p and kinetic energy KE. The
      wave nature of matter was proposed by Louis de Broglie, λ = h/p = h/mv.
  • Davisson and Germer Experiment  
8 Atoms and Nuclei
  • Alpha-particle Scattering and Rutherford’s Nuclear Model of Atom  
    • Alpha-particle Scattering Experiment and Rutherford's Model of Atom
    • Alpha-particle trajectory
    • Electron orbits
    • Rutherford’s nuclear model of atom (mathematical theory of scattering excluded), based on Geiger - Marsden experiment on α-scattering; nuclear radius r in terms of closest approach of α particle to the nucleus,
      obtained by equating ∆K = ½ mv2 of the α particle to the change in electrostatic potential energy ∆U of the system `"U" = (2e xx "Ze")/(4πε_0r_0) r_0 ∼ 10^(-15) "m" = 1` fermi; atomic structure; only general qualitative ideas, including atomic number Z, Neutron number N and mass number A.
  • Bohr’s Model for Hydrogen Atom  
    • Explanation of the line spectrum of hydrogen using Bohr theory
    • Bohr's theory and atomic spectrum of hydrogen
    • Ionization energy
  • Energy Levels  
  • Hydrogen Spectrum  
  • Atomic Masses and Composition of Nucleus  
    • Composition and Size of Nucleus
  • Isotopes, Isobars and Isotones  
  • Radioactivity  
    • Alpha Decay  

      Alpha Particles Or Rays and Their Properties

    • Beta Decay  

      Beta Particles Or Rays and Their Properties

    • Gamma Decay  
      • Gamma Particles Or Rays and Their Properties
  • Law of Radioactive Decay  
  • Atomic Mass, Mass - Energy Relation and Mass Defect  
    • Atomic Mass
    • Mass-Energy Relation
    • Mass Defect
    • Packing fraction
  • Mass-energy and Nuclear Binding Energy  
    • Nuclear Binding Energy  
      • Binding Energy per Nucleon and Its Variation with Mass Number
    • Mass - Energy  
  • Nuclear Energy  
    • Nuclear Fission  
    • Nuclear Fusion – Energy Generation in Stars  
9 Electronic Devices
  • Energy Bands in Conductors, Semiconductors and Insulators  
    • Elementary ideas about electrical conduction in metals [crystal structure not included]. Energy levels (as for hydrogen atom), 1s, 2s, 2p, 3s, etc. of an isolated atom such as that of copper; these split, eventually forming ‘bands’ of energy levels, as we consider solid copper made up of a large number of isolated atoms, brought together to form a lattice; definition of energy bands - groups of closely spaced energy levels separated by band gaps called forbidden bands. 
    • An idealized representation of the energy bands for a conductor, insulator and semiconductor; characteristics, differences; distinction between conductors, insulators and semiconductors on the basis of energy bands, with examples; qualitative discussion only; energy gaps (eV) in typical substances (carbon, Ge, Si); some electrical properties of semiconductors.
  • Semiconductor Diode  
    • Semiconductor Diode
    • Potential barrier at the junction diode
    • Biasing of the p-n junction diode
      1) Forward biasing
      2) Reverse biasing
    • V-I Characteristics of a p-n junction diode
      1) p-n junction diode under forward bias: Cut-off or knee voltage
      2) p-n junction diode under reverse bias: Breakdown voltage
      3) Reverse Breakdown: Zener breakdown, Avalanche breakdown
    • Dynamic Resistance
  • Diode as a Rectifier  
  • Special Purpose P-n Junction Diodes  
    • Special Purpose p-n Junction Diodes: Led, Photodiode, Solar Cell and Zener Diode
    • characteristics of Led, Photodiode, Solar Cell and Zener Diode
    • Zener diode
    • Optoelectronic junction devices - Photodiode, Light emitting diode, Solar cell
  • Zener Diode as a Voltage Regulator  
    • Zener diode
    • I-V characteristics of Zener diode
    • Zener diode as voltage regulator
    • Line regulation in Zener diode
    • Load regulation in Zener diode
    • Ratings of a Zener diode
  • Junction Transistor  
    • Feedback Amplifier and Transistor Oscillator  
      • Transistor as an oscillator: Construction, Working
      • Gain and Berkhausen's criterion
      • Uses
    • Transistor as an Amplifier (Ce-configuration)  
      • npn Transistor as Common Emitter Amplifier
      • Various gains in amplifiers
      • Comparison between CB, CE and CC amplifier
  • Transistor Action  
  • Transistor and Characteristics of a Transistor  
    • Configurations of a transistor
      i) Common-base configuration (CB)
      ii) Common-emitter configuration (CE)
      iii) Common-collector configuration (CC)
    • Types of characteristic curves
      i) Input characteristics curve
      ii) Output characteristics curve
      iii) Transfer characteristics curve
    • Transistor characteristics in CE configuration
      a) Input Characteristics
      b) Output characteristics of a transistor: Active region, Cut-off region, Saturation region
    • Different modes of operation of a transistor
    • Current-transfer Characteristics
    • Transistor as a switch
  • Digital Electronics and Logic Gates  
    • Logic Gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR)
    • Logic gates - NOT gate, OR Gate, AND Gate, NAND Gate, NOR Gate
    • Basic Idea of Analog and Digital Signals
  • Transistor as a Switch  
10 Communication Systems
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