WBCHSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus 2025 has been released by the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE). This syllabus is crucial for students preparing for their final exams, providing clear insights into the topics covered for both Semester 3 and Semester 4. Along with the syllabus, details regarding the WBCHSE Class 12 exam pattern and key exam dates are also provided to guide students through their preparation.
The syllabus, available in PDF format, includes important topics across theory and practicals and carries a total of 100 marks. Students should download the PDF to familiarize themselves with the exam structure and begin focusing on the key areas to score well in the upcoming exams. The exam dates for Class 12 Physics are expected to be announced soon, so staying updated is important.WBCHSE 2025 Exam Overview | |
Particulars | Details |
Full Exam Name | West Bengal Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination |
Short Exam Name | West Bengal HSC Board 2025 |
Conducting Body | West Bengal State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Pune |
Frequency of Conduct | Once a year |
Exam Level | Intermediate |
Languages | English, Hindi, Marathi |
Mode of Application | Offline |
Mode of Exam | Offline |
Exam Duration | 3 Hours |
WBCHSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus 2025 Semester -3 | |||
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UNIT No. | TOPICS | SUBTOPICS | MARKS |
1 | Electrostatics |
Electric Charges and Fields
: Conservation of charge, Coulomb’s law, electric field, electric dipole, torque on dipole, Gauss’s theorem, application to straight wire, plane sheet, spherical shell.
Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance : Potential, potential energy, conductors, dielectrics, polarization, capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor. |
8 |
2 | Current Electricity | Electric current, Ohm’s law, resistivity, conductivity, V-I characteristics, series/parallel resistances, EMF of cells, Kirchhoff’s laws, Wheatstone bridge, Potentiometer. | 8 |
3 | Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism |
Moving Charge and Magnetic Field
: Oersted’s experiment, Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s circuital law, Lorentz force, cyclotron, force between current-carrying conductors, galvanometer.
Magnetism and Matter : Magnetic dipole, Earth's magnetic field, B-H curve, types of magnetic substances. |
8 |
4 | Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Current |
Electromagnetic Induction
: Magnetic flux, Faraday’s laws, Lenz's law, self and mutual inductance.
Alternating Current : AC circuits, reactance, impedance, resonance, power factor, AC generator, transformer. |
8 |
5 | Electromagnetic Waves | Displacement current, characteristics of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, visible light, X-rays, gamma rays), uses of electromagnetic waves. | 3 |
WBCHSE Class 12 Physics Syllabus 2025 Semester - 4 | |||
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UNIT No. | TOPICS | SUBTOPICS | MARKS |
6 | Optics | Ray Optics and Optical Instruments : Reflection, spherical mirrors, refraction, total internal reflection, lenses, magnification, combination of lenses, scattering of light, optical instruments (eye, microscopes, telescopes). Wave Optics : Huygens’ principle, interference, diffraction, polarization. | 14 |
7 | Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter | Dual nature of radiation, photoelectric effect, Einstein's photoelectric equation, de Broglie relation, wave-particle duality. | 4 |
8 | Atoms and Nuclei | Atoms : Rutherford and Bohr models, X-ray production, hydrogen spectrum. Nuclei : Composition of nucleus, isotopes, radioactivity, mass-energy relation, binding energy, nuclear fission and fusion. | 6 |
9 | Electronic Devices | Thermal emission, semiconductors, p-n junction diode, Zener diode, LED, photodiode, solar cell, transistors, amplifier, logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND, NOR), binary numbers, digital signals. | 8 |
10 | Communication System | Elements of communication systems, modulation (amplitude, frequency), bandwidth of signals, electromagnetic wave propagation, sky and space wave propagation. | 3 |
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