Important Topics for CUET Physics 2025

Unit I- Electrostatics

Electric Charges and Electric Fields

• Coulomb’s Law

• Electric Field due to a Point Charge

• Statement of Gauss’s Theorem

• Uniformly Charged Infinite Plane Sheet

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

• Electric Potential Due to a Point Charge.

• Equipotential Surfaces

• The Capacitance of a Parallel Plate Capacitor with and without Dielectric Medium between the Plates

• Energy Stored in a Capacitor

• Potential Energy

Unit II- Current Electricity

Current Electricity

• Drift Velocity

• Temperature Dependence of Resistance

• The Internal Resistance of a Cell

• Potential Difference and EMF of a Cell

• Kirchhoff’s Laws and Simple Applications

• Potentiometer

Unit III -Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

Moving Charges and Magnetism

• Biot-Savart Law

• Current Carrying Circular Loop

• Ampere’s Law and its Applications to an Infinitely Long Straight Wire

• Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor in a Uniform Magnetic Field

• Moving Coil Galvanometer- Its Current Sensitivity and Conversion to Ammeter and Voltmeter

Magnetism and Matter

• Current Loop as a Magnetic Dipole

• Magnetic Dipole Moment of a Revolving Electron

• Earth’s Magnetic Field and Magnetic Elements

Unit IV- Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

Electromagnetic Induction

• Faraday’s Law

• Lenz’s Law

• Eddy Currents

• Self and Mutual Induction

Alternating Currents

• Peak and RMS Value of Alternating Current and Voltage

• LCR Series Circuit

• AC Generator and Transformer

Unit V-Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic Waves

• Displacement Current

• Energy of EM Wave

• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays)

• Including Elementary Facts About Their Uses

Unit VI- Optics

Ray Optics and Optical Instrument

• Mirror Formula

• Lens Formula

• TIR

• Refraction and Dispersion of Light Through a Prism

Wave Optics

• Huygens’ Principle

• Young’s Double Hole Experiment

• Diffraction Due to a Single Slit, Width of Central Maximum

Unit VII- Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

• Photoelectric Effect

• Matter waves – Wave Nature of Particles, De Broglie Relation

Unit VIII- Atoms and Nuclei

Atoms

• Rutherford’s Model of Atom

• Bohr's Model

Nuclei

• Radioactivity

• Nuclear Fission

• and Fusion

Unit IX- Electronic Devices

Electronic Devices

• Semi-Conductor Devices

• Semi-Conductor Diode- Forward and Reverse Bias of Diode

• LED, Solar Cell, Photodiode

• Characteristics and Graph

• PN Junction

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