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CBSE - CLASS 12 – PHYSICS

MOST IMPORTANT DERIVATIONS
Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and Fields
❖ Electric field at an axial point of an electric dipole & E Vs r Graph
❖ Electric field at an equatorial point of an electric dipole
❖ Torque on a dipole in a uniform electric field
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - field due to an infinitely long charged wire
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - electric field due to a uniformly charged
infinite plane sheet
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - field due to a uniformly charged thin
spherical shell & E Vs r Graph
Chapter 2 - Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
❖ Electric Potential Due to dipole
❖ Potential Energy in an External Field
❖ Effect of Dielectric on Capacitance
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ Drift of Electrons and the origin of resistivity
Chapter 4 - Moving Charges & Magnetism
❖ Magnetic field on the Axis of a circular current loop
❖ Force between Two Parallel Currents, the Ampere
Chapter 6 - Electromagnetic Induction
❖ Inductance
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ AC Voltage Applied to a Series LCR Circuit
Chapter 9 - Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
❖ Optical Instruments
Chapter 10 - Wave Optics
❖ Refraction and Reflection of Plane waves
 IMPORTANT DERIVATIONS
Chapter 2 - Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
❖ Electric Potential Due to a Point Charge
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ Cells in series and in parallel
❖ Wheatstone bridge
Chapter 4 - Moving Charges & Magnetism
❖ Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart law
❖ Torque on current loop, Magnetic dipole
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ AC Voltage Applied to a Capacitor
❖ Transformers
Chapter 9 - Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
❖ Reflection of light by spherical mirrors
❖ Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and by Lenses

MOST IMPORTANT THEORY

Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and Fields
❖ Gauss’s law
Chapter 2 - Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
❖ Equipotential surface
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ Drift of Electrons and the origin of resistivity
❖ Temperature dependence of resistivity
❖ Cells, Emf , Internal resistance
Chapter 5 - Magnetism and Matter
❖ Magnetic Properties of Materials
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ AC generator
Chapter 8 - Electromagnetic Waves
❖ Displacement current
❖ Electromagnetic Waves
❖ Electromagnetic spectrum
Chapter 10 - Wave Optics
❖ Huygens Principle
❖ Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment
❖ Diffraction
Chapter 11 - Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
❖ Experimental Study of Photoelectric Effect
❖ Einstein’s Photoelectric Equation: Energy Quantum of Radiation
Chapter 12 – Atoms
❖ Alpha-Particle Scattering and Rutherford’s Nuclear Model of Atom
❖ Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
❖ de-Broglie’s Explanation of Bohr’s Second Postulate of Quantisation
Chapter 13 – Nuclei
❖ Size of the Nucleus
❖ Mass-Energy and Nuclear Binding Energy
❖ Nuclear Force
❖ Nuclear Energy
Chapter 14 - Semiconductor Electronics : Materials, Devices and Simple
Circuits
❖ Extrinsic Semiconductor
❖ p-n Junction
❖ Semiconductor Diode
❖ Application of Junction Diode as a rectifier
 IMPORTANT THEORY
Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and Fields
❖ Electric field lines - drawing pattern of electric field lines
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ Ohm’s law
❖ Electrical Energy, power
Chapter 5 - Magnetism and Matter
❖ Magnetism & Gauss’s law
❖ Magnetisation & Magnetic intensity
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ Transformers
MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS
Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and Fields
❖ Coulomb’s law
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - field due to an infinitely long charged wire
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - electric field due to a uniformly charged
infinite plane sheet
❖ Application of Gauss’s law - field due to a uniformly charged thin
spherical shell
Chapter 2 - Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance
❖ Electric Potential Due to a Point Charge
❖ Potential Energy of a System of Charges
❖ Potential Energy in an External Field
❖ Combination of capacitors
❖ Energy Stored in a Capacitor
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ 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 & Magnetism
❖ Motion in a magnetic field
❖ Magnetic field on the Axis of a circular current loop
❖ Force between Two Parallel Currents, the Ampere
❖ The Moving Coil Galvanometer
Chapter 6 - Electromagnetic Induction
❖ Inductance
❖ Faraday's law of induction
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ AC Voltage Applied to a Series LCR Circuit
❖ Power in AC Circuit: The Power Factor
❖ Transformers
Chapter 9 - Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
❖ Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and by Lenses
❖ Refraction through a Prism
❖ Optical Instruments
Chapter 11 - Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
❖ Wave Nature of Matter
Chapter 12 - Atoms
❖ Alpha-Particle Scattering and Rutherford’s Nuclear Model of Atom
❖ 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
❖ Mass-Energy and Nuclear Binding Energy
❖ Nuclear Energy
 IMPORTANT PROBLEMS
Chapter 1 - Electric Charges and Fields
❖ Electric flux
Chapter 3 - Current Electricity
❖ Ohm’s law
Chapter 4 - Moving Charges & Magnetism
❖ Magnetic Field due to a Current Element, Biot-Savart law
❖ Torque on current loop, Magnetic dipole
Chapter 5 - Magnetism and Matter
❖ Bar Magnet
Chapter 6 - Electromagnetic Induction
❖ Motional Electromotive force
Chapter 7 - Alternating Current
❖ AC generator
❖ Transformers
Chapter 9 - Ray Optics and Optical Instruments
❖ Reflection of light by spherical mirrors
❖ Total internal reflection
Chapter 10 - Wave Optics
❖ Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment
❖ Diffraction
Chapter 11 - Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
❖ Experimental Study of Photoelectric Effect
❖ Einstein’s Photoelectric Equation: Energy Quantum of Radiation
Chapter 14 - Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple
Circuits
❖ Intrinsic Semiconductor
❖ Extrinsic Semiconductor