ICAR AIEEA 2025 Physics Syllabus: Detailed Syllabus, Important Topics and Sub-Topics

Physical World and Measurement

• Physical quantities
• Units and measurements
• Dimensional analysis
• Accuracy and precision of instruments
• Errors in measurements

Current Electricity

• Electric current and its sources
• Drift velocity and Ohm’s law
• Electrical resistivity and conductivity
• Series and parallel combinations of resistors
• Kirchhoff’s laws and their applications
• Potentiometer, metre bridge

Communication Systems

• Basic concepts of communication systems
• Need for modulation
• Types of modulation: amplitude and frequency modulation
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves
• Satellite and optical fibre communications

Electrostatics

• Electric charges, properties of electric charge
• Coulomb’s law
• Electric field and electric dipole
• Electric flux, Gauss’s law, and its applications
• Potential energy and potential difference
• Equipotential surfaces
• Capacitors and capacitance

Laws of Motion

• Newton’s laws of motion and their applications
• Inertia, impulse, and momentum
• Conservation of linear momentum
• Friction – laws of friction, applications
• Circular motion and dynamics of uniform circular motion

Properties of Bulk Matter

• Elastic behaviour and Hooke’s Law
• Stress-strain relationship
• Pressure due to a fluid column
• Pascal’s law and its applications
• Viscosity, Stoke’s law, terminal velocity
• Surface energy, surface tension
• Heat transfer: conduction, convection, and radiation
• Newton’s law of cooling

Electronic Devices

• Semiconductors and their properties
• P-N junction diode, its characteristics
• Rectification, Zener diode, transistors
• Logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR)
• Use of semiconductors in electronics

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• Biot-Savart law and Ampere’s law
• Magnetic field due to a current-carrying conductor
• Force on a moving charge in a magnetic field
• Torque on a current loop
• Moving coil galvanometer
• Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s laws, Lenz’s law
• Alternating currents, transformer, and AC generator

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

• Photoelectric effect
• Einstein’s photoelectric equation
• Wave-particle duality of matter
• De Broglie hypothesis
• X-rays: production, properties, and uses

Kinematics

• Motion in a straight line and motion in a plane
• Velocity and acceleration
• Uniform and non-uniform motion
• Uniformly accelerated motion
• Scalar and vector quantities
• Relative velocity

Thermodynamics

• Thermal equilibrium and temperature
• Heat, work, and internal energy
• First law of thermodynamics
• Second law of thermodynamics
• Reversible and irreversible processes
• Carnot engine, efficiency

Electromagnetic Waves

• Displacement current
• Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves to gamma rays)
• Properties of electromagnetic waves
• Uses of different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum

Work, Energy and Power

• Work done by a constant force and a variable force
• Kinetic energy, potential energy
• Work-energy theorem
• Conservation of mechanical energy
• Power
• Elastic and inelastic collisions

Oscillations and Waves

• Simple harmonic motion: oscillatory motion and its characteristics
• Energy in SHM: kinetic and potential energies
• Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
• Wave motion: transverse and longitudinal waves
• Speed of a wave, superposition principle, interference
• Standing waves, Doppler effect

Optics

• Reflection and refraction of light
• Mirror formula, lens formula, and magnification
• Total internal reflection
• Wave optics: Huygens’ principle, Young’s double-slit experiment
• Diffraction, interference of light
• Polarisation

Gravitation

• Newton’s law of gravitation
• Gravitational potential energy
• Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude, depth
• Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
• Orbital velocity, escape velocity

Atoms and Nuclei

• Atomic models: Rutherford and Bohr’s model
• Energy levels, line spectra
• Radioactivity: alpha, beta, and gamma decay
• Nuclear fission and fusion

Behaviour of Perfect Gas and Kinetic Theory

• Equation of state of a perfect gas
• Kinetic theory of gases: assumptions, concept of pressure
• Average kinetic energy of molecules, degrees of freedom
• Law of equipartition of energy
• Specific heat capacities of gases

Motion of Systems of Particles and Rigid Body

• The centre of mass of a system of particles
• Motion of the centre of mass
• Rotational motion
• Torque, angular momentum
• Moment of inertia, radius of gyration
• Conservation of angular momentum

Optics

4-5

Kinematics

2-3

Laws of motion

2-3

Work, energy, and power

1-2

The motion system of particles and rigid body

1-2

Gravitation

2-3

Properties of bulk matter

1-2

Thermodynamics

4-5

Behaviour of perfect gas and kinetic theory

1-2

Oscillations and Waves

2-3

Electrostatics

4-5

Current Electricity

5-6

Magnetic effects of current and magnetism

1-2

Electromagnetic induction and alternating current and electromagnetic waves

2-3

Dual nature of matter and radiation

1-2

Atoms and Nuclei

1-2

Electronic Devices

2-3

Communication Systems

2-3

Mechanics

• Rotation
• Gravitation
• Newton's law of motion and friction
• Motion in a straight line

Heat/Thermodynamics

• Calorimetry
• Thermo dynamical process
• Radiation

Wave Optics

• SHM
• Young double-slit model
• Doppler effect

Ray Optics

• Prism
• Optical instrument

Electrostatics

• Electric field due to different shape
• Wheatstone bridge
• Potentiometer

Magnetism

• The motion of charged particles in a magnetic field
• The force between two parallel current-carrying wire
• Faraday’s law
• Lenz Law

Modern Physics

• Bohr’s atomic model
• Binding energy
• Radiation
• Logic gate
• Circuit base
• Zener diode
• P.N junction diode

Objective Physics

R.K. Gupta

Understanding Physics

D.C. Pandey

New Pattern Physics

D.B. Singh

Objective Physics for NEET

D.C. Pandey

A Textbook of Physics for Class XI & XII

Jain and Gupta

Concepts of Physics - Part 1 & 2

H.C. Verma

Physics for Medical Entrance Examinations

C.P. Singh

Objective Physics

Satya Prakash Arya

University Physics

Sears and Zemansky

Previous Year ICAR AIEEA Papers (Physics)

Arihant

Fundamentals of Physics

Resnick, Halliday and Walker

Problems and Solutions in Physics

S. Mishra

NCERT Physics Textbooks

NCERT 

Physics Galaxy: Advanced Illustration in Physics

Ashish Arora

Problems in General Physics

I.E. Irodov