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CBSE Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2023-24: When we talk about a syllabus the first thing that comes to our mind is a document related to an exam that we need to follow to get a high score. This is correct but only when if you follow the latest and updated syllabus and not any previous year’s syllabus. Think like, you are travelling on a bus or train with an old ticket and get caught. Isn’t it dangerous? You pick the wrong syllabus, follow that and prepare for exams. Will that be of any use? No!
After the pandemic hit us the educational authorities have realised to introduce some changes into the traditional syllabus. These changes involve both addition and deletion of topics, exercises and even whole units. Thus, to prepare for your CBSE 2023-24 exams effectively and complete your academic year rightly you need to know what changes CBSE has introduced to your subjects’ syllabus.
The new syllabus is 30% lesser than the one CBSE used to follow before COVID. You should take this as a good news. As per the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP) which was framed considering the post-pandemic situation in schools, the weightage of the board exams considered for reduction to help students to get into colleges.
If say in NEP’s language “Curriculum content will be reduced in each subject to its core essentials, to make space for critical thinking and more holistic, inquiry-based, discovery-based, discussion-based, and analysis-based learning. The mandated content will focus on key concepts, ideas, applications, and problem-solving.” Apart from this, there are various changes that have been made. To know the updation read the NEP guidelines 2020.
Here in this post, we are primarily focusing on the updated syllabus of CBSE Class 11 Physics. You will get to know the deleted topics, exercises, questions and units. This will be beneficial to you as we have also mentioned the new topics that have been added to the new CBSE Physics syllabus recently for Class 11. Continue reading to know the updated Class 11 Physics syllabus.
CBSE Class 11 Physics Deleted Syllabus 2023-2024
| Chapter Name | Deleted Topics | Added Topics |
| Chapter 1: Physical World | Complete Chapter | - |
| Chapter 2: Units and Measurements | Length, mass and time measurements; accuracy and precision of measuring instruments; errors in measurement | - |
| Chapter 3: Motion in a Straight Line | Position-time graph, speed and velocity. Average Speed. | - |
| Chapter 4: Motion in a Plane | Relative Velocity, Acceleration Projectile | - |
| Chapter 5: Laws of Motion | - | - |
| Chapter 6: Work, Energy and Power | conservation of mechanical energy (kinetic and potential energies) | - |
| Chapter 7: System of Particles and Rotational Motion | Statement of parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications. | - |
| Chapter 8: Gravitation | Geo-stationary satellites, escape velocity changed to escape speed | - |
| Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Solids |
| - |
| Chapter 10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids | Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications changed to Bernoulli’s theorem and its simple applications | - |
| Chapter 11: Thermal Properties of Matter | Greenhouse effect | |
| Chapter 12: Thermodynamics |
| gaseous state of matter, change of condition of gaseous state -isothermal, adiabatic, reversible, irreversible, and cyclic processes. |
| Chapter 13: Kinetic Theory | - | - |
| Chapter 14: Oscillations | Free, forced and damped oscillations (qualitative ideas only), resonance. | periodic functions and their applications. |
| Chapter 15: Waves | Doppler effect | - |
CBSE Class 11 Physics List of Rationalised Content 2023-24
The National Council of Educational Research and Training has released the list of rationalised content for CBSE Class 7 to 12. Check the list of rationalised content for all the subjects. From that huge and complicated list, we have extracted the information for you to fulfil your reason to land on this page. Check below the list of all the topics dropped from the Class 11 CBSE Physics NCERT textbook 2023-24.
| Chapters | Topics Deleted |
| Chapter 1: Physical World | 1.1 What is Physics? 1.2 Scope and Excitement of Physics 1.3 Physics, Technology and Society 1.4 Fundamental Forces in Nature 1.5 Nature of Physical Laws |
| Chapter 2: Units and Measurements | 2.3 Measurement of Length 2.4 Measurement of Mass 2.5 Measurement of Time 2.6 Accuracy, Precision of Instruments and Errors in Measurement Exercises 2.13, 2.14, 2.19–2.22, 2.24–2.33 |
| Chapter 3: Motion in a Straight Line | 3.2 Position, Path Length and Displacement 3.3 Average Velocity and Average Speed 3.7 Relative Velocity Exercises 3.5, 3.7–3.9 and 3.23–3.28 Appendix 3.1 |
| Chapter 4: Motion in a Plane | 4.9 Relative Velocity in Two Dimensions Exercises 4.12–4.14; 4.26–4.32 |
| Chapter 5: Laws of Motion | Exercises 5.24–5.40 |
| Chapter 6: Work, Energy and Power | 6.10 Various Forms of Energy: the Law of Conservation of Energy Exercises 6.24–6.29 |
| Chapter 7: System of Particles and Rotational Motion | 7.10 Theorems of Perpendicular and Parallel Axes 7.14 Rolling Motion Exercises 7.10, 7.18–7.19, 7.21–7.33 |
| Chapter 8: Gravitation | 8.11 Geostationary and Polar Satellites 8.12 Weightlessness Exercises 8.3–8.5, 8.22–8.25 Appendix 8.1 |
| Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Solids | 9.2 Elastic Behaviour of Solids 9.6.2 Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire Exercises 9.17 – 9.21 |
| Chapter 10: Mechanical Properties of Fluids | 10.4.2 Venturi-meter 10.4.3 Blood Flow and Heart Attack 10.6.6 Detergents and Surface Tension Exercises 10.21–10.31 Appendix 10.1 |
| Chapter 11: Thermal Properties of Matter | 11.9.5 Greenhouse Effect Exercises 11.21 – 11.22 |
| Chapter 12: Thermodynamics | 12.9 Heat Engines 12.10 Refrigerators and Heat Pumps Exercises 12.7 and 12.10 |
| Chapter 13: Kinetic Theory | 13.6.5 Specific Heat Capacity of Water Exercises 13.11–13.14 |
| Chapter 14: Oscillations | 14.9 Damped Simple Harmonic Motion 14.10 Forced Oscillations and Resonance Exercises 14.16 (p. 365), 14.20–14.25 |
| Chapter 15: Waves | 15.8 Doppler Effect Exercises 15.20–15.27 |
| Answers | In accordance with the reduction in Exercises in text. |
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CBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2023-24 (All subjects)