NEET Physics Syllabus 2026
Complete chapter-wise Physics syllabus for NEET 2026. All 19 chapters with official NTA topics, marks weightage, key formulas and difficulty level.
High-Priority Chapters — Study These First
These 16 chapters contribute 2+ questions per paper on average. Prioritise them for maximum marks impact.
All 19 Chapters — NEET Physics
Physical World and Measurement
Physics: scope and excitement; nature of physical laws; Physics, technology and society · Need for measurement: units of measurement; systems of units; SI units, fundamental and derived units · Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy and precision of measuring instruments · +2 more
Kinematics
Frame of reference, motion in a straight line: position-time graph, speed and velocity · Elementary concepts of differentiation and integration for describing motion · Uniform and non-uniform motion, average speed and instantaneous velocity · +4 more
Laws of Motion
Intuitive concept of force, inertia, Newton's first law of motion; momentum and Newton's second law of motion; impulse; Newton's third law of motion · Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications · Equilibrium of concurrent forces; static and kinetic friction, laws of friction, rolling friction, lubrication · +1 more
Work, Energy and Power
Work done by a constant force and a variable force; kinetic energy, work-energy theorem, power · Notion of potential energy, potential energy of a spring, conservative forces; conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies) · Non-conservative forces; motion in a vertical circle, elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions
Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body
Centre of mass of a two-particle system, momentum conservation and centre of mass motion · Centre of mass of a rigid body; centre of mass of uniform rod, ring, disc, and sphere · Moment of a force, torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum with some examples · +3 more
Gravitation
Kepler's laws of planetary motion; gravitational force and Newton's law of gravitation · Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth · Gravitational potential energy; gravitational potential; escape velocity · +1 more
Properties of Bulk Matter
Elastic behaviour, stress-strain relationship; Hooke's law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, shear, modulus of rigidity, Poisson's ratio; elastic energy · Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, Reynold's number, streamline and turbulent flow; Bernoulli's theorem and its applications · Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, excess of pressure, application of surface tension ideas to drops, bubbles and capillary rise · +2 more
Thermodynamics
Thermal equilibrium and definition of temperature (zeroth law of thermodynamics) · Heat, work and internal energy; first law of thermodynamics · Isothermal and adiabatic processes; second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes · +1 more
Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory
Equation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas · Kinetic theory of gases: assumptions; concept of pressure; kinetic energy and temperature · RMS speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom, law of equipartition of energy (statement only) and application to specific heats of gases · +1 more
Oscillations and Waves
Periodic motion — period, frequency, displacement as a function of time; periodic functions · Simple harmonic motion (SHM) and its equation; phase; oscillations of a loaded spring; restoring force and force constant; energy in SHM · Simple pendulum — derivation of expression for its time period; free, forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only); resonance · +2 more
Electrostatics
Electric charges; conservation of charge; Coulomb's law; forces between two point charges; forces between multiple charges; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution · Electric field; electric field lines; electric field due to a point charge; electric dipole; electric field due to a dipole; torque on a dipole in uniform electric field · Electric flux, Gauss's theorem and its applications to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet, and uniformly charged thin spherical shell · +2 more
Current Electricity
Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity and mobility and their relation with electric current; Ohm's law; electrical resistance; V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear) · Electrical energy and power; electrical resistivity and conductivity · Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; series and parallel combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance · +3 more
Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism
Concept of magnetic field; Oersted's experiment; Biot-Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop · Ampere's law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids · Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields; Lorentz force; uniform circular motion of charge in magnetic field; cyclotron · +3 more
Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents
Electromagnetic induction; Faraday's laws; induced EMF and current; Lenz's law; eddy currents · Self and mutual inductance; transformer; energy stored in a coil · Alternating currents, peak and RMS value of alternating current/voltage; reactance and impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only) · +2 more
Electromagnetic Waves
Need for displacement current; electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only) · Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves; electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses
Optics
Reflection of light; spherical mirrors; mirror formula; refraction of light; total internal reflection and its applications · Optical fibres; refraction at spherical surfaces; lenses; thin lens formula; lensmaker's equation; power of a lens; combination of thin lenses in contact; refraction and dispersion of light through a prism · Scattering of light — blue colour of sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset · +4 more
Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter
Dual nature of radiation; photoelectric effect; Hertz and Lenard's observations; Einstein's photoelectric equation — particle nature of light · Matter waves — wave nature of particles; de Broglie relation; Davisson-Germer experiment (experimental details should be omitted; only conclusion should be explained)
Atoms and Nuclei
Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford's model of atom; Bohr model; energy levels; hydrogen spectrum · Composition and size of nucleus; atomic masses; isotopes, isobars; isotones · Radioactivity — alpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties; radioactive decay law · +1 more
Electronic Devices
Energy bands in conductors, semiconductors and insulators (qualitative ideas only) · Semiconductor diode — I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias; diode as a rectifier · Special purpose p-n junction diodes: LED, photodiode, solar cell and Zener diode and their characteristics; Zener diode as a voltage regulator · +2 more