The Rajasthan Board Class 12 Physics syllabus for the 2025 board exams is now available on the official website of the RBSE. The board has updated the syllabus landing page with the new one. The syllabus for Class 12 is provided in a single PDF for all the subjects. Students can download the subject-wise separate syllabus PDFs from RBSE Class 12 Syllabus 25.
Here, the detailed syllabus for Rajasthan Board Class 12 Physics is provided for the 2025 board examination. The information here includes the exam scheme, course structure, detailed syllabus, and other important links like mock tests and topic-wise video tutorials. Read this article for further details.
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RBSE Class 12 Physics Examination Scheme
The detailed exam scheme for Class 12 Physics paper is given below for the theory and practical parts. Check the scheme and understand the structure carefully.
Question Paper | Time (Hrs.) | Marks for the Paper | Sessional | Total Marks |
Theory | 3:15 | 56 | 14 | 70 |
Practical | 3:00 | 30 | 0 | 30 |
Rajasthan Board Class 12 Physics Course Structure 2025
The course structure is a formatted and concise version of the syllabus. It tells about the number and types of units covered in the syllabus along with their weightage. Check the RBSE Class 12 Physics course structure for the 2025 board exams, here.
Units | Name of the unit | Marks |
1 | Electrostatics | |
Chapter–1: Electric Charges and Fields | 4 | |
Chapter–2: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance | 3 | |
2 | Chapter–3: Current Electricity | 4 |
3 | Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism | |
Chapter–4: Moving Charges and Magnetism | 4 | |
Chapter–5: Magnetism and Matter | 3 | |
4 | Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents | |
Chapter–6: Electromagnetic Induction | 4 | |
Chapter–7: Alternating Current | 5 | |
5 | Chapter–8: Electromagnetic Waves | 2 |
6 | Optics | |
Chapter–9: Ray Optics and Optical Instruments | 7 | |
Chapter–10: Wave Optics | 5 | |
7 | Chapter–11: Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter | 4 |
8 | Atoms and Nuclei | |
Chapter–12: Atoms | 4 | |
Chapter–13: Nuclei | 3 | |
9 | Electronic Devices | 7 |
Chapter–14: Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits | 4 | |
TOTAL | 56 |
RBSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus 2025
Chapter–1: Electric Charges and Fields
Electric charge, conductors and insulators, basic properties of electric charge, coulomb’s law, forces between multiple charges, electric field, electric field lines, electric flux, electric dipole, dipole in a uniform external field, continuous charge distribution, gauss’s law, applications of gauss’s law.
Chapter–2: Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
Electrostatic Potential, Potential due to a Point Charge, Potential due to an Electric Dipole, Potential due to a System of Charges, Equipotential Surfaces, Potential Energy of a System of Charges, Potential Energy in an External Field, Electrostatics of Conductors, Dielectrics and Polarisation, Capacitors and Capacitance, The Parallel Plate Capacitor, Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance, Combination of Capacitors, Energy Stored in a Capacitor (only formula).
Chapter–3: Current Electricity
Electric Current, Electric Currents in Conductors, Ohm’s law, Drift of Electrons and the Origin of Resistivity, Limitations of Ohm’s Law, Resistivity of Various Materials, Temperature Dependence of Resistivity, Electrical Energy, Power, Cells, emf, Internal Resistance, Cells in Series and in Parallel, Kirchhoff’s Rules, Wheatstone Bridge.
Chapter–4: Moving Charges and Magnetism
Magnetic Force, Motion in a Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic Field on the Axis of a Circular Current Loop, Ampere’s Circuital Law, The Solenoid, Force between Two Parallel Currents - the Ampere, Torque on Current Loop, Magnetic Dipole, The Moving Coil Galvanometer.
Chapter–5: Magnetism and Matter
The Bar Magnet, Magnetism and Gauss’s Law, Magnetisation and Magnetic Intensity, Magnetic Properties of Materials.
Chapter–6: Electromagnetic Induction
The Experiments of Faraday and Henry, Magnetic Flux, Faraday’s Law of Induction, Lenz’s Law and Conservation of Energy, Motional Electromotive Force, Inductance , AC Generator.
Chapter–7: Alternating Current
AC Voltage Applied to a Resistor, Representation of AC Current and Voltage by Rotating Vectors — Phasors, AC Voltage Applied to an Inductor, AC Voltage Applied to a Capacitor, AC Voltage Applied to a Series LCR Circuit, Power in AC Circuit: The Power Factor, Transformers.
Chapter–8: Electromagnetic Waves
Displacement Current, Electromagnetic Waves , Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Chapter–9: Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
Reflection of Light by Spherical Mirrors, Refraction, Total Internal Reflection, Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and by Lenses, Refraction through a Prism, Optical Instruments.
Chapter–10: Wave Optics
Huygens Principle, Refraction and Reflection of Plane Waves using Huygens Principle, Coherent and Incoherent Addition of Waves, Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment, Diffraction, Polarisation.
Chapter–11: Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
Electron Emission, Photoelectric Effect, Experimental Study of Photoelectric Effect, Photoelectric Effect and Wave Theory of Light, Einstein’s Photoelectric Equation: Energy Quantum of Radiation, Particle Nature of Light: The Photon, Wave Nature of Matter.
Chapter–12: Atoms
Alpha-particle scattering and Rutherford's nuclear model of atom, atomic spectra, bohr model of the hydrogen atom, the line spectra of the hydrogen atom, de broglie’s explanation of bohr’s second postulate of quantisation.
Chapter–13: Nuclei
Atomic masses and composition of nucleus, size of the nucleus, mass energy and nuclear binding energy, nuclear force, radioactivity, nuclear energy.
Chapter–14: Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits
Classification of Metals, Conductors and Semiconductors, Intrinsic Semiconductor, Extrinsic Semiconductor, p-n Junction, Semiconductor Diode, Application of Junction Diode as a Rectifier.
