VITEEE 2025 Physics Subject Wise Questions, List of Chapters & Topics

Shilpa Pradhan

Updated On: October 23, 2024 06:05 PM | VITEEE

It is important for aspirants to know the VITEEE 2025 Physics Subject Wise Questions and List of Chapters and Topics before beginning their VITEEE 2025 Preparation. We have highlighted the same for the candidates on this page.

 

VITEEE 2025 (Physics)Subject Wise Questions List of Chapters & Topics

VITEEE 2025 Physics Subject Wise Questions: The Vellore Institute of Technology conducts the Vellore Institute of Technology Engineering Entrance Examination (VITEEE) each year for the purpose of admitting students to its B.Tech and other undergraduate engineering programmes. At Vellore Institute of Technology, almost 2 lakh students apply for the exam each year. All qualified applicants will be given admission opportunities to the BTech at the campuses of VIT in Vellore, Chennai, Bhopal, and Amravati.

VITEEE exam is conducted as a computer-based test for 2 hours and 30 minutes, or 180 minutes. In order to keep up with the topics and subtopics on which the question paper will be based, candidates preparing for the B.Tech. programme at VIT must consult the VITEEE syllabus. In the article below, candidates can find details about the VITEEE 2025 Physics Subject Wise Questions, List of Chapters & Topics that are important from the perspective of VITEEE 2025 Exam.

VITEEE Subject Wise Questions 2025

As per the VITEEE exam pattern 2025 , the physics section will have 35 questions in total. The paper will be a two and half hour exam with no negative markings.

VITEEE 2025 Physics List of Chapters and Topics

Provided below in the table is the detailed list of Chapters for Physics of VITEEE 2025 Physics-

Units

Topics

Laws of Motion & Work, Energy and Power

  1. Law of conservation of linear momentum and its applications.
  2. Static and kinetic friction -
  • laws of friction
  • rolling friction
  • lubrication
  1. Work done by a constant force and a variable force;
  2. kinetic energy
  • Work
  • Energy Theorem
  • Power

5. 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

Properties of Matter

1. 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
  • Streamline and turbulent flow
  • Critical velocity
  • Bernoulli's theorem and its applications

2. Heat

  • Temperature
  • Thermal expansion
  • Thermal expansion of solids
  • Specific heat capacity
  • Cp
  • Cv
  • Latent heat capacity.
  • Qualitative ideas of Blackbody radiation
  • Wein's displacement Law - Stefan's law

Electrostatics

  1. Charges and their conservation
  • Coulomb’s law-forces between two point electric charges
  • Forces between multiple electric charges
  • Superposition principle.
  1. Electric field
  • Electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field intensity due to a dipole
  • Behaviour of a dipole in a uniform electric field.
  1. Electric potential
  • Potential difference-electric potential due to a point charge and Dipoleequipotential surfaces
  • Electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges.
  • Electric flux-Gauss’s theorem and its applications.
  1. Electrostatic Induction-Capacitor and Capacitance
  • Dielectric and electric polarization
  • Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric medium
  • Applications of capacitor
  • Energy stored in a capacitor
  • Capacitors in series and in parallel
  • Action points
  • Van de Graaff generator

Current Electricity

  1. Electric Current -
  • Drift velocity and mobility and their relation with electric current.
  • Ohm’s law, electrical resistance
  • V-I characteristics
  • Electrical resistivity and conductivity
  • Classification of materials in terms of conductivity
  1. Carbon resistors
  • Colour code for carbon resistors
  • Combination of resistors
  • Series and parallel
  • Temperature dependence of resistance
  • Internal resistance of a cell
  • Potential difference and emf of a cell
  • Combinations of cells in series and in parallel
  1. Kirchoff’s law - Wheatstone’s Bridge and its application - Metre Bridge - special case of Wheatstone bridge - Potentiometer principle - comparing the emf of two cells.
  2. Magnetic effect of electric current -  Concept of magnetic field - Oersted’s experiment -  BiotSavart law- Magnetic field due to a current carrying straight wire and circular coil -  Tangent galvanometer -  Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid -  magnetic field lines. Ampere’s circuital law and its application.
  3. Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic field and electric field -  cyclotron -  Force on current carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field -  Forces between two parallel current carrying conductors - definition of ampere.
  4. Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field - moving coil galvanometer -  conversion to ammeter and voltmeter -  current loop as a magnetic dipole - Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron.

Magnetic Effects of Electric Current

  • Magnetic effect of electric current
  • Oersted’s experiment
  • Biot-Savart law
  • Magnetic field due to an infinitely long current carrying straight wire and circular coil
  • Tangent galvanometer -  construction and working -  Bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid -  magnetic field lines. Ampere’s circuital law and its application.
  • Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic field and electric field -  cyclotron -  Force on current carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field -  Forces between two parallel current carrying conductors - definition of ampere.
  • Torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field - moving coil galvanometer -  conversion to ammeter and voltmeter -  current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment - Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron.

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current

Electromagnetic induction - Faraday’s law - induced emf and current - Lenz’s law. Self induction - Mutual induction - self inductance of a long solenoid - mutual inductance of two long solenoids. Methods of inducing emf -

  1. by changing magnetic induction (ii) by changing area enclosed by the coil and
  2. by changing the orientation of the coil (quantitative treatment). AC generator - commercial generator. (Single phase, three phase). Eddy current - applications - transformer - long distance transmission.

Alternating current - measurement of AC - AC circuit with resistance - AC circuit with inductor - AC circuit with capacitor - LCR series circuit - Resonance and Q - factor - power in AC circuits.

Optics

  • Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibers, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens maker’s formula. Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact, combination of a lens and a mirror.
  • Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism. Scattering of light-blue colour of sky and reddish appearances of the sun at sunrise and sunset. Wavefront and Huygens’s principle - Reflection, total internal reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wavefronts. Interference - Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width - coherent source - interference of light - Formation of colours in thin films - Newton’s rings.
  • Diffraction - differences between interference and diffraction of light- diffraction grating. Polarization of light waves - polarisation by reflection - Brewster’s law - double refraction - nicol prism - uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids - rotatory polarisation - polarimeter.

Dual Nature of Radiation and Atomic Physics

  • Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics - Electromagnetic spectrum - Photoelectric effect - Light waves and photons - Einstein’s photoelectric equation - laws of photoelectric emission - particle nature of light - photo cells and their applications.
  • Atomic structure -  discovery of the electron -  specific charge (Thomson’s method) and charge of the electron (Millikan’s oil drop method) -  alpha scattering -  Rutherford’s atom model.

Nuclear Physics

  1. Nuclear properties - nuclear radii, masses, binding energy, density, charge - isotopes, isobars and isotones - nuclear mass defect - binding energy - stability of nuclei - Bainbridge mass spectrometer.
  2. Nature of nuclear forces - Neutron - discovery - properties - artificial transmutation - particle accelerator.
  3. Radioactivity - alpha, beta and gamma radiations and their properties - Radioactive decay law - half life - mean life - artificial radioactivity - radioisotopes - effects and uses - Geiger - Muller counter.
  4. Radiocarbon dating. Nuclear fission - chain reaction - atom bomb - nuclear reactor - nuclear fusion - Hydrogen bomb - cosmic rays - elementary particles.

Semiconductor Devices and their Applications

  • Semiconductor basics - energy band in solids: difference between metals, insulators and semiconductors - semiconductor doping - Intrinsic and Extrinsic semiconductors.
  • Formation of P-N Junction - Barrier potential and depletion layer-P-N Junction diode - Forward and reverse bias characteristics - diode as a rectifier - Zener diode Zener diode as a voltage regulator - LED. Junction transistors - characteristics - transistor as a switch - transistor as an amplifier - transistor as an oscillator.
  • Logic gates - NOT, OR, AND, EXOR using discrete components - NAND and NOR gates as universal gates - De Morgan’s theorem - Laws and theorems of Boolean algebra.

VITEEE 2025 Physics Important Topics

Go through the list of the physics important topics here and make sure to prepare these topics in advance so that more time can be spent on revising these topics.
1. Electromagnetic induction
2. Thermodynamics
3. Alternating current
4. Semiconductor devices & applications

VITEEE 2025 Syllabus

The official brochure and the VITEEE syllabus 2025 for each subject is released by the Vellore Institute of Technology. For convenience, candidates can download the VITEEE 2025 syllabus from the official website to know the complete curriculum. VIT will conduct the VITEEE 2025 exam-based topics included in the VITEEE 2025 syllabus.

Candidates should therefore organize their study time and stick to the exam format. In the VITEEE 2025 syllabus, topics from physics, chemistry, mathematics, and english are mentioned. The VITEEE syllabus for candidates in biotechnology will also include topics from biology. Candidates taking the VITEEE 2025 exam should be aware of the topics that will be covered in each subject.

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FAQs

Who releases the VITEEE syllabus for Phyiscs?

The  Vellore Institute of Technology or VIT releases the Physics syllabus oif VITEEE every year in online mode.
 

Which are the topics asked from Electric field- Electrostatics in VITEEE Phyiscs?

Some of the topics asked from Electric field- Electrostatics in VITEEE Phyiscs are Electric field due to a point charge, electric field lines; electric dipole, electric field intensity due to a dipole, Behaviour of a dipole in a uniform electric field. 
 

Which are the important VITEEE Physics books?

Some of the the important VITEEE Physics books are Problem Book in Physics for IIT JEE by DC Pandey, Objective Physic Vol. 1 & 2 by DC Pandey and Arihant, Problems in General Physics by IE Irodov, Concept of Physics pt. 1 & 2    by HC Verma, Understanding Physics Series by HC Verma. 
 

Which are the topics asked from Magnetic Effects of Electric Current in VITEEE Phyiscs?

Magnetic effect of electric current, Oersted’s experiment, Biot-Savart law, Magnetic field due to an infinitely long current carrying straight wire and circular coil, Tangent galvanometer, construction, and working are some of the topics asked from Magnetic Effects of Electric Current in VITEEE Physics.

    

Which are the topics asked in Electric Current in in VITEEE Phyiscs exam?

Some of the topics asked in Electric Current in in VITEEE Phyiscs exam are Drift velocity and mobility and their relation with electric current, Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Classification of materials in terms of conductivity 
 

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