GUJCET Physics Syllabus 2026 Released – Chapter-Wise Topics List

Electric Charges and Electric Field

• Properties of electric charges and conservation of charge.

• Coulomb’s law: force between two point charges, extension to multiple charges, principle of superposition, and continuous charge distribution.

• Electric field: definition, field due to a point charge, field lines, electric dipole and its field, torque on a dipole in a uniform field.

• Electric flux, Gauss’s theorem (statement and applications): field of an infinitely long straight wire, infinite plane sheet, and a thin spherical shell (inside and outside).

Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

• Electric potential and potential difference: due to a point charge, a dipole, and a system of charges. Equipotential surfaces, potential energy of charge systems and dipoles in an electrostatic field.

• Conductors and insulators: free and bound charges in conductors. Dielectrics, polarization, capacitance, capacitors in series/parallel, parallel plate capacitor (with and without dielectric), energy of a capacitor, Van de Graaff generator.

Current Electricity

• Electric current in conductors, drift velocity, mobility, and relation with current.

• Ohm’s law, resistance, V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear), electrical energy and power, resistivity and conductivity.

• Carbon resistors and colour code. Series and parallel resistor combinations, effect of temperature on resistance.

• EMF, potential difference, internal resistance of a cell; cells in series and parallel.

• Kirchhoff’s laws with applications, Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge.

• Potentiometer: principle and use, measuring potential difference, comparing EMFs, and finding internal resistance of a cell.

Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

• Magnetic field concept, Oersted’s experiment, Biot-Savart law and application to circular current loop.

• Ampere’s law with applications: straight wire, solenoids (straight and toroidal).

• Force on moving charges in uniform fields, cyclotron.

• Force on a current-carrying wire, force between parallel conductors (ampere definition). Torque on a current loop, moving-coil galvanometer (sensitivity, conversion to ammeter/voltmeter).

• Current loop as a magnetic dipole, dipole moment, magnetic moment of revolving electron.

• Magnetic field due to dipole (bar magnet) along axis and perpendicular axis. Torque on dipole in uniform field. Bar magnet as solenoid, field lines, Earth’s magnetic field and elements.

Magnetism and Matter

• Para-, dia-, ferro-magnetic materials with examples.

• Electromagnets, permanent magnets and factors affecting strength.

Electromagnetic Induction

• Faraday’s law induced EMF/current, Lenz’s law, eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance.

Properties of Bulk Matter

• Elasticity: Stress-strain, Hooke’s law, Young’s, bulk, shear modulus, Poisson’s ratio, elastic energy.

• Fluids: Pressure in fluid column, Pascal’s law (hydraulic lift/brakes), gravity effect.

• Viscosity: Stokes’ law, terminal velocity, Reynolds number, streamline/turbulent flow, critical velocity, Bernoulli’s theorem (applications).

• Surface tension: Surface energy, angle of contact, excess pressure, drops, bubbles, capillary rise.

• Heat & Expansion: Thermal expansion of solids, liquids, gases; anomalous expansion; Cp, Cv, calorimetry, latent heat.

• Heat transfer: Conduction, convection, radiation; black body, Wien’s law, greenhouse effect.

• Cooling laws: Newton’s law, Stefan’s law.

Electromagnetic Waves

• Displacement current and its necessity.

• Electromagnetic waves: characteristics and transverse nature.

• Electromagnetic spectrum; radio, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays; basic applications.

Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory

• Perfect gas law; work in compression.

• Kinetic theory: assumptions, pressure, KE–temperature relation, rms speed.

• Degrees of freedom, equipment (statement), heat capacities.

• Mean free path, Avogadro’s number.

Ray Optics

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Prism refraction and dispersion.

• Scattering of light

• Optical instruments

Wave Optics

• Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction using wavefronts, proof of laws.

• Interference

• Diffraction

• Polarisation

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

• Photoelectric effect

• Matter waves

• Davisson-Germer experiment

Atoms

• Rutherford’s alpha scattering experiment

• Bohr’s model

Nuclei

• Nucleus: size, composition, isotopes, isobars, isotones.

• Radioactivity: alpha, beta, gamma rays and properties; decay law.

• Mass-energy relation, mass defect, binding energy per nucleon, variation with mass number.

• Nuclear fission and fusion.

Semiconductor Electronics

• Energy bands in solids (basic idea), conductors, semiconductors, insulators.

• Semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics (forward/reverse bias), diode as rectifier.

• LED, photodiode, solar cell, Zener diode (as regulator).

• Transistors: action, characteristics, use as amplifier (common emitter), oscillator, and switch.

• Logic gates: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR.

Communication Systems

• Elements of communication system (block diagram).

• Bandwidth of signals (speech, TV, data) and transmission medium.

• Propagation of EM waves: sky, space, ground waves.

• Modulation: need, production and detection of amplitude-modulated waves.

Alternating Current

• Alternating current: peak and RMS values, reactance, impedance. LC oscillations (qualitative), LCR series circuit, resonance, power in AC circuits, wattless current.

• AC generator and transformer.

Physics

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Chemistry

40

40

Mathematics/Biology

40

40

Total

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