CBSE Class 12

CBSE Class 12 Physics β€” chapter-wise notes, questions and revision

Study Physics one chapter at a time with NCERT-aligned notes, sample questions and quick-revision points.

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About Class 12 Physics

Physics is part of the CBSE Class 12 syllabus. CBSERevision covers it chapter by chapter across 14 chapters. Each chapter page explains the NCERT chapter in student-friendly language, lists the key points to revise, and includes sample MCQs and questions with answers.

Class 12 Physics chapters

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Chapter 1

Electric Charges and Fields

This chapter opens the study of electrostatics, the branch of physics that deals with forces, fields and potentials arising from charges at rest.

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Chapter 2

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

This chapter extends the ideas of work, energy and electric fields to electrostatic situations.

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Chapter 3

Current Electricity

Current Electricity is the study of charges in steady motion. In earlier chapters charges were treated at rest; here we learn how a steady electric field inside a…

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Chapter 4

Moving Charges and Magnetism

Moving Charges and Magnetism explores how moving charges and electric currents create magnetic fields, and how those fields exert forces on other moving charges and…

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Chapter 5

Magnetism and Matter

Magnetism and Matter explores magnetism as a subject in its own right, building on the idea that moving charges and currents produce magnetic fields.

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Chapter 6

Electromagnetic Induction

Electromagnetic induction is the phenomenon in which a changing magnetic flux through a circuit induces an electromotive force (emf) and hence a current in it.

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Chapter 7

Alternating Current

Alternating current is the form in which electrical energy reaches our homes, schools and industries.

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Chapter 8

Electromagnetic Waves

This chapter explains how changing electric and magnetic fields give rise to electromagnetic waves.

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Chapter 9

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments explains how light behaves when it meets mirrors, lenses, prisms and the human eye.

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Chapter 10

Wave Optics

Wave Optics is the branch of optics that treats light as a wave rather than as a stream of particles.

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Chapter 11

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

This chapter explores the dual nature of radiation and matter, a cornerstone of modern physics.

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Chapter 12

Atoms

This chapter traces how our picture of the atom developed from Thomson's plum pudding model to Rutherford's nuclear model and finally to Bohr's quantised model of the…

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Chapter 13

Nuclei

The chapter Nuclei takes you inside the tiny central core of the atom, where almost all of its mass is packed into a space about ten thousand times smaller than the atom…

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Chapter 14

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

Semiconductor Electronics is the branch of physics that explains how modern electronic devices control the flow of electrons inside solid materials.

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Frequently asked questions

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Is the Class 12 Physics content NCERT-aligned?

Every chapter page is written from the NCERT textbook chapter, so what you study matches what is taught in school.

How is Class 12 Physics organised on CBSERevision?

It is organised chapter by chapter into 14 chapters. Each chapter page gives a summary, key points for quick revision, sample MCQs and questions with answers, and frequently asked questions.

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