How to prepare for Physics with a reduced syllabus of NEET 2024

Unit from class 11

Deleted Topics from Class 11

U-1 Physical World and Measurement

• Physics - Scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology, and society.
• Need for Measurement - Length, mass, and time measurements, accuracy and precision of measuring instruments.

U-2 Kinematics

Scalar and vector quantities: Position and displacement vectors, Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion, multiplication of vectors by a real number of general vectors and notation, equality of vectors

U-3 Laws of Motion.

Equilibrium of concurrent forces - Lubrication

U-5 Rotational Motion

Momentum conservation, and center of mass motion.

U-6 Gravitation

Geostationary satellites.

U-7 Properties of Bulk Matter /Solids /Liquids

• Shear, Poisson’s ratio; elastic energy.  Reynold’s number, Anomalous expansion. Specific heat capacity: Cp, Cv- calorimetry; change of state – latent heat. Qualitative ideas of Black Body Radiation, Wein’s displacement law, and Green House effect.
• Newton’s law of cooling and Stefan’s law.

U-8 Thermodynamics 

Heat engines and refrigerators

U-10 Oscillations and Waves.

• Free, forced, and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance.
• Doppler effect

Unit from class 12

Deleted Topics from Class 12

U-1 Electrostatics 

Free charges and bound charges inside a conductor, Van de Graaff generator

U-2 Current Electricity

The flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, Carbon resistors, color code for carbon resistors, Potentiometer-principle and applications to measure potential difference, and for comparing emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell

U-3 Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

Concept of the magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment.  Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field, and magnetic elements. Electromagnetic and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets

U-4 Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only)

U-6 Optics

• Reflection and refraction of plane waves at a plane surface using wavefronts.
• Scattering of the light-blue color of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.
• Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation, correction of eye defects (myopia and hypermetropia) using lenses.
• Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers.

U-7 Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

Davisson-Germer experiment (experimental details should be omitted; only the conclusion should be explained)

U-8 Atoms and Nuclei

Isotopes, isobars; isotones. Radioactivity- alpha, beta, and gamma particles/ rays and their properties decay law. 

U-9 Electronic Devices

Energy bands in solids (qualitative ideas only), conductors, insulators, Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator, Transistor as a switch