Assam HS 2nd Year Physics Syllabus 2026-27 PDF Download – Check AHSEC Physics Exam Pattern

Units

Chapters

Marks

Unit I: Electrostatics

• Electric charges and fields

• Electrostatic potential and capacitance

9

Unit II: Current Electricity

Current electricity

8

Unit III: Magnetism Effect of Current and Magnetism

• Moving charges and magnetism

• Magnetism and matter

9

Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

• Electromagnetics Induction

• Alternating Current

9

Unit V: Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetics waves

3

Unit VI: Optics

• Ray optics and Optical instruments

• Wave optics

14

Unit VII: Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

Dual nature of radiation and matter

5

Unit VIII: Atom and Nuclei

Atoms

Nuclei

6

Unit IX: Electronic Devices

Semiconductor electronics: materials, devices, and simple circuits

7

Total

70

Units

Chapters

Electrostatics

• Electric Charge and Fields

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  • Electric Charges

  • Conservation of charge,

  • Coulomb's law of force between two point charges

  • Forces between multiple charges.

• Electrostatic Potential and Capacitance

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  • Electric potential, potential difference, electric potential due to a point charge, a dipole anda system of charges;

  • Equipotential surfaces, electrical potential energy of a system of two-point charges and of an electric dipole in an electrostatic field.

Current Electricity

• Current Electricity

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  • Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current.

  • Ohm's law, electrical resistance, combination of resistance.

  • Electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity, temperature dependence of resistance

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

• Moving charges and magnetism

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  • 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 an infinitely long straight wire.

  • Straight solenoids

• Magnetism and matter

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  • Bar magnet,

  • Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole

  • Magnetic properties of materials-Para-, dia-, and ferro-magnetic substances

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

• Electromagnetic induction

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  • Electromagnetic induction; Faraday's laws, induced EMF and current

  • Lenz's Law, Self and mutual induction.

• Alternating current

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  • Alternating currents, peak and RMS value of alternating current/voltage

  • Reactance and impedance

  • LCR series circuit resonance

  • Power in AC circuits.

  • AC generator and transformer.

Electromagnetic Waves

• Electromagnetic waves

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  • Basic idea of displacement current

  • Electromagnetic waves, their characteristics

  • Electromagnetic spectrum

Optics

• Ray Optics and optics

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  • Reflection of light

  • Spherical mirror and mirror formula

  • Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications

  • Microscopes, astronomical telescopes and their magnifying powers.

• Wave Optics

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  • Wave front and Huygen's principle

  • Reflection and refraction of a plane wave.

  • Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygen's principle.

  • Interference, Young's double slit experiment and expression for fringe width.

Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

• Dual nature of radiation and matter

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  • Dual nature of radiation

  • Photoelectric effect

  • Hertz and Lenard's observations

  • Einstein's photoelectric

Atoms and Nuclei

• Atoms

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  • Alpha-particle scattering experiment

  • Rutherford's model of the atom

  • Bohr model

  • Expression of the radius of the nth orbit

• Nuclei

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  • Composition and size of the nucleus

  • Nuclear force

  • Mass- energy relation, mass defect, binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number

  • Nuclear fission

Electronic Devices

• Semiconductor Electronics: Materials, Devices and Simple Circuits

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  • Energy bands in conductors, semiconductors and insulators

  • Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, p-type and n-type, p-n junction.

  • Semiconductor diode,