25% of the NEET paper

NEET Physics flashcards,
built on the NTA syllabus.

Physics is a quarter of the NEET paper and the subject most aspirants are weakest in. These are spaced-repetition flashcards for every chapter and subtopic of the NTA NEET Physics syllabus: formulae, conditions, standard results and limiting cases, scheduled by FSRS-5.

180
of 720 marks
45
of 180 questions
20
chapters
123
subtopics tracked
Why Physics slips

You do not forget how to solve.
You forget which case applies.

Physics looks like the subject flashcards cannot help with, because it is problem solving rather than memory. Half of that is true, and the half that is false is expensive. In the hall, with roughly a minute a question, you are not deriving anything. You are recognising: which chapter this is, which standard result applies, what the condition of validity is, which sign convention is in force.

What actually decays in Physics is not the method. It is the inventory the method runs on: formulae and the conditions attached to them, standard results, limiting cases, dimensional forms, constants, and the small set of exceptions that NTA likes to build a question around. Those are exactly the kind of facts active recall and spaced repetition were built for.

And recognition speed is itself a memory problem. Forty-five questions against the clock means the recognition step has to be automatic, because every second you spend working out what kind of question this is comes out of the time you needed to solve it.

The syllabus

The NTA NEET Physics syllabus,
chapter by chapter.

All 20 chapters and 123 subtopics, in the order the NTA syllabus sets them out. This is the structure NeetFlash organises Physics by: cards are tagged to the subtopic, and your progress is tracked at that level, so what you see is which subtopic is slipping, not just which chapter.

01

Physics and Measurement

  • Units of measurements; system of units; SI units; fundamental and derived units
  • Least count, significant figures
  • Errors in measurements
  • Dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional analysis and its applications
02

Kinematics

  • Frame of reference; motion in a straight line; position-time graph; speed and velocity
  • Uniform and non-uniform motion; average speed and instantaneous velocity
  • Uniformly accelerated motion; velocity-time and position-time graphs; equations of motion
  • Scalars and vectors; vector addition and subtraction; scalar and vector products; unit vector; resolution
  • Relative velocity; motion in a plane; projectile motion
  • Uniform circular motion
03

Laws of Motion

  • Force and inertia; Newton's First Law of Motion
  • Momentum; Newton's Second Law of Motion; impulse
  • Newton's Third Law of Motion; conservation of linear momentum and applications
  • Equilibrium of concurrent forces
  • Static, kinetic and rolling friction; laws of friction
  • Dynamics of uniform circular motion: centripetal force, vehicle on level and banked roads
04

Work, Energy and Power

  • Work done by a constant force and a variable force
  • Kinetic and potential energies; work-energy theorem; power
  • Potential energy of a spring; conservation of mechanical energy
  • Conservative and non-conservative forces; motion in a vertical circle
  • Elastic and inelastic collisions in one and two dimensions
05

Rotational Motion

  • Centre of mass of a two-particle system and a rigid body
  • Basic concepts of rotational motion; moment of a force; torque
  • Angular momentum, conservation and applications
  • Moment of inertia, radius of gyration; values for simple geometrical objects
  • Parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and applications
  • Equilibrium of rigid bodies; rigid body rotation and equations of rotational motion; comparison of linear and rotational motions
06

Gravitation

  • Universal law of gravitation
  • Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth
  • Kepler's laws of planetary motion
  • Gravitational potential energy and gravitational potential
  • Escape velocity; motion of a satellite: orbital velocity, time period and energy
07

Properties of Solids and Liquids

  • Elastic behaviour; stress-strain relationship; Hooke's law; Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity
  • Pressure due to a fluid column; Pascal's law and applications; effect of gravity on fluid pressure
  • Viscosity; Stokes' law; terminal velocity; streamline and turbulent flow; critical velocity; Bernoulli's principle and applications
  • Surface energy and surface tension; angle of contact; excess pressure across curved surface; drops, bubbles, capillary rise
  • Heat, temperature, thermal expansion; specific heat capacity; calorimetry; change of state; latent heat
  • Heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation
08

Thermodynamics

  • Thermal equilibrium; zeroth law of thermodynamics; concept of temperature
  • Heat, work and internal energy; first law of thermodynamics
  • Isothermal and adiabatic processes
  • Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes
09

Kinetic Theory of Gases

  • Equation of state of a perfect gas; work done on compressing a gas
  • Kinetic theory of gases: assumptions, concept of pressure, kinetic interpretation of temperature
  • RMS speed of gas molecules; degrees of freedom
  • Law of equipartition of energy and applications to specific heat capacities of gases
  • Mean free path; Avogadro's number
10

Oscillations and Waves

  • Periodic motion: time period, frequency, displacement as a function of time; periodic functions
  • Simple harmonic motion (SHM) and its equation; phase
  • Oscillations of a spring: restoring force, force constant, energy in SHM
  • Simple pendulum: derivation of expression for time period
  • Wave motion; longitudinal and transverse waves; speed of travelling wave; displacement relation for a progressive wave
  • Principle of superposition of waves; reflection of waves
  • Standing waves in strings and organ pipes; fundamental mode and harmonics; beats
11

Electrostatics

  • Electric charges; conservation of charge; Coulomb's law; superposition principle and continuous charge distribution
  • Electric field due to a point charge; electric field lines; electric dipole and its field; torque on a dipole in a uniform field
  • Electric flux; Gauss's law and applications: infinitely long charged wire, infinite plane sheet, thin spherical shell
  • Electric potential: point charge, dipole, system of charges; potential difference; equipotential surfaces
  • Electrical potential energy of a system of two point charges and of an electric dipole in an electrostatic field
  • Conductors and insulators; dielectrics and electric polarization
  • Capacitors and capacitance; combinations in series and parallel; parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectric; energy stored
12

Current Electricity

  • Electric current; drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current; Ohm's law
  • Electrical resistance; V-I characteristics of ohmic and non-ohmic conductors; electrical energy and power
  • Electrical resistivity and conductivity; series and parallel combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance
  • Internal resistance, potential difference and EMF of a cell; combination of cells in series and parallel
  • Kirchhoff's laws and applications; Wheatstone bridge; metre bridge
13

Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism

  • Biot-Savart law and application to current carrying circular loop
  • Ampere's law and applications: infinitely long current carrying straight wire and solenoid
  • Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields; force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field
  • Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors: definition of ampere; torque experienced by a current loop in a uniform magnetic field
  • Moving coil galvanometer: sensitivity, conversion to ammeter and voltmeter
  • Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its dipole moment; bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid; magnetic field lines
  • Magnetic field due to a magnetic dipole along its axis and perpendicular to its axis; torque on a magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field
  • Para-, dia- and ferromagnetic substances with examples; effect of temperature on magnetic properties
14

Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents

  • Electromagnetic induction: Faraday's law; induced EMF and current; Lenz's law; eddy currents
  • Self and mutual inductance
  • Alternating currents: peak and RMS value; reactance and impedance
  • LCR series circuit; resonance; power in AC circuits; wattless current
  • AC generator and transformer
15

Electromagnetic Waves

  • Displacement current
  • Electromagnetic waves and characteristics; transverse nature of EM waves
  • Electromagnetic spectrum: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays
  • Applications of electromagnetic waves
16

Optics

  • Reflection of light; spherical mirrors; mirror formula
  • Refraction of light at plane and spherical surfaces; thin lens formula and lens maker's formula
  • Total internal reflection and its applications
  • Magnification; power of a lens; combination of thin lenses in contact
  • Refraction of light through a prism
  • Microscope and astronomical telescope (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers
  • Wave optics: wavefront and Huygens' principle; laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens' principle
  • Interference; Young's double-slit experiment and fringe width; coherent sources and sustained interference
  • Diffraction due to a single slit; width of central maximum
  • Polarization; plane-polarized light; Brewster's law; uses of polarized light and Polaroid
17

Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation

  • Dual nature of radiation; photoelectric effect; Hertz and Lenard's observations
  • Einstein's photoelectric equation; particle nature of light
  • Matter waves: wave nature of particle; de Broglie relation
18

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
  • Mass-energy relation; mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number
  • Nuclear fission and fusion
19

Electronic Devices

  • Semiconductors; semiconductor diode: I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias
  • Diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell
  • Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator
  • Logic gates: OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR
20

Experimental Skills

  • Vernier calipers: internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel
  • Screw gauge: thickness and diameter of thin sheet/wire
  • Simple pendulum: dissipation of energy by plotting square of amplitude vs time
  • Metre scale: mass of an object by the principle of moments
  • Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire
  • Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents
  • Coefficient of viscosity of a viscous liquid by terminal velocity of a spherical body
  • Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube
  • Specific heat capacity of solid and liquid by method of mixtures
  • Resistivity of the material of a wire using a metre bridge
  • Resistance of a wire using Ohm's law
  • Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method
  • Focal length of convex mirror, concave mirror, and convex lens by parallax method
  • Plot of angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism
  • Refractive index of a glass slab using a travelling microscope
  • Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias
  • Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and reverse breakdown voltage
  • Identification of diode, LED, resistor and capacitor from a mixed collection
The schedule

How FSRS-5 handles Physics.

A Physics card carries the result and the condition it holds under, because the condition is what NTA tests. Your own rating of Forgot, Struggled, Got It or Too Easy is what separates “I could state it” from “I could use it under pressure”, and it is the biggest single input into when the card comes back. NeetFlash also checks that rating against your actual answer, so marking “Got It” on something you answered wrong still books it as a lapse.

The interval is not a setting you pick. It is computed from your own ratings, per card, and it is the day your recall of that fact is predicted to fall to 90%: your own forgetting curve for that one fact, rather than a weekly rotation everybody shares. How the engine works ›

Past papers

NEET previous year questions,
sorted by Physics topic.

Physics rewards this more than most: the same standard setups recur, and recognising a setup you have met before is most of the work. NeetFlash serves NEET previous year questions sorted by topic, so you can drill Rotational Motion past questions in the same week you revised the Rotational Motion cards, and put the timing under real +4 / −1 mock-test marking rather than untimed practice.

Questions

NEET Physics flashcards: common questions

Can flashcards really help with Physics?
For the recall layer, yes, and that layer is bigger than it looks: formulae and their conditions, standard results, limiting cases, sign conventions and constants are all things you either retrieve instantly or lose time to. What flashcards do not replace is solving practice, so NeetFlash pairs them with chapter tests and full-length mock tests marked +4 / −1, which is where the method gets exercised against the clock.
Are these aligned with the latest NTA NEET Physics syllabus?
Yes. The list on this page is the structure the cards are organised by: 20 chapters and 123 subtopics from the NTA NEET syllabus. Cards are tagged to the subtopic, and your progress is tracked at that level.
What about numericals?
Cards carry the results and conditions; the arithmetic gets tested in chapter tests and in full-length mock tests scored +4 / −1 with negative marking, so exam-hall pressure is familiar before you sit the real paper. Everything you get wrong goes into the mistake bank tagged by topic.
Physics is my weakest subject. Where do I start?
Not with chapter one. NeetFlash builds a weak-spot map that ranks topics by where your recall is actually slipping, which is usually not where you assume it is. You start there, and the schedule keeps bringing those cards back until the map changes.
Do I have to pay to use it?
No. Every new account opens with 7 days of Premium, free, no card needed. After that the free plan gives you 10 flashcard reviews and 50 searches a day, with progress tracking, weak-spot analysis, streaks and the mistake bank free and uncapped.
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