Kerala Board Class 12 Physics Syllabus 2025-26: Download PDF Below Now

Chapter Number

Chapter Name

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 Number

Chapter Name

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: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

Chapter 15

Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

Part

Chapter

Topics

1

Chapter 1: Electric Charges and Fields

• Electric Charge (delete only activity with paper strips and making electroscope)
• Conductors and Insulators (delete only concept of earthing)
• Charging by Induction Exercises (1.13, 1.25 - 1.34)

Chapter 2: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

• Energy Stored in a Capacitor (delete only derivation)
• Exercises (2.12 to 2.36)

Chapter 3: Current Electricity

• Resistivity of Various Materials (delete Tables 3.1 and 3.2 and Carbon resistors, Colour code for carbon resistor)
• Combinations of Resistors
• Meter Bridge Potentiometer
• Exercises (3.3, 3.4, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-3.23)

Chapter 4: Moving Charges and Magnetism

• Velocity Selector
• Cyclotron
• The Toroid
• The Magnetic Dipole Moment of a Revolving Electron
• Exercises (4.14-4.28)

Chapter 5: Magnetism and Matter

• Bar Magnet as an Equivalent Solenoid (only mathematical treatment)
• The Dipole in a Uniform Magnetic Field (only mathematical treatment)
• Earth’s Magnetism
• Magnetic Declination and Dip Table
• Paramagnetism (delete only Curie’s Law)
• Ferromagnetism (delete only Curie’s temperature; and Hysteresis)
• Permanent Magnets and Electromagnets
• Exercises (5.1, 5.2, 5.9–5.11, 5.13–5.25)

Chapter 6: Electromagnetic Induction

• Energy Consideration: A Quantitative Study Eddy Currents
• Exercises 6.6, 6.10–6.17

Chapter 7: Alternating Current

• Magnetisation and Demagnetisation of an Inductor Figure
• Charging and Discharging of a Capacitor
• Analytical Solution (of series LCR circuit)
• Resonance (delete only Sharpness of Resonance)
• LC Oscillations
• Exercises (7.6, 7.8, 7.10, 7.12-7.26)

Chapter 8: Electromagnetic Waves

• Nature of Electromagnetic Waves (delete only about etherand page 277)
• Example 8.4 and 8.5
• Exercises (8.11-8.15)

Part 2

Chapter 9: Ray Optics and Optical Instruments

• Refraction (delete only advanced sunrise and delayed sunset), (i) Mirage (ii) Diamond Some Natural Phenomena due to Sunlight
• The Rainbow Scattering of Light
• Exercise 9.18.

Chapter 10: Wave Optics

• Doppler Effect
• Example 10.1
• Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment (retain the final expressions for dark and bright fringes but delete the derivation; delete expression for fringe width)
• Diffraction (retain only qualitative treatment)
• Resolving Power of Optical Instruments
• Validity of Ray Optics
• Polarisation by Scattering
• Polarisation by Reflection
• Exercises (10.7-10.21)

Chapter 11: Dual Nature Of Radiation and Matter

• Wave Nature of Matter (delete only derivation for de Broglie wavelength of accelerated electron; and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle)
• Davisson and Germer Experiment Appendix
• The History of Wave- Particle Flip-Flop
• Exercises (11.5, 11.7, 11.12 - 11.14, 11.16, 11.17, 11.19 –11.37)

Chapter 12: Atoms

• Spectral Series
• Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom (retain only the expression for radius of nth possible orbit but delete its derivation)
• The Line Spectra of the Hydrogen Atom (retain only qualitative treatment)
• Example 12.6
• Exercises (12.3, 12.11-12.17)

Chapter 13: Nuclei

• Law of Radioactive Decay
• Alpha Decay, Beta Decay
• Gamma Decay
• Nuclear Reactor
• Exercises (13.1, 13.2, 13.6–13.10, 13.12–13.14,13.18, 13.22–13.31)

Chapter 14: Semiconductor Electronics: Material Devices and Simple Circuits

• Special Purpose p-n junction Diodes
• Digital Electronics and Logic Gates
• Exercises (14.7-14.15)