Maharashtra Board 12th Physics Syllabus 2025-26: Download PDF Below

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

Prateek Tomar
Prateek Tomar

Maharashtra Board 12th Physics syllabus is a good source of knowledge for students studying this subject. The syllabus for class 12th Maharashtra board has more than sufficient content that is needed to appear in the Maharashtra 12th board exam. It includes all the necessary information, like the list of units and chapters that need to be covered to score good marks in the examination. It helps students prepare better for the MSBSHSE 12th board exams. All the students of Class 12th will be able to download the Maharashtra Board 12th Physics syllabus 2025-26 online from the boards' official website,mahahsscboard.in.

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Maharashtra Board 12th Physics syllabus 2025-26

Below given is the detailed syllabus:

Units

Competency Statements

Unit 1:

Rotational Motion and Mechanical Properties of fluids

  • Distinguish between centrifugal and centripetal forces.
  • Visualise the concepts of moment of inertia of an object.
  • Relate the moment of inertia of a body with its angular momentum.
  • Differentiate between translational and rotational motions of rolling objects.
  • Relate the pressure of a fluid to the depth below its surface.
  • Explain the measurement of atmospheric pressure by using a barometer.
  • Use Pascal's law to explain the working of a hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes.
  • Relate the surface energy of a fluid to its surface tension.
  • Distinguish between fluids that show capillary rise and fall.
  • Identify processes in daily life where surface tension plays a major role.
  • Explain the role of viscosity in everyday life.
  • Differentiate between streamline flow and turbulent flow.

Unit 2:

Kinetic theory and Thermodynamics

  • Relate various gas laws to form the ideal gas equation.
  • Distinguish between an ideal gas and a real gas.
  • Visualise the mean free path as a function of various parameters.
  • Obtain the degrees of freedom of a diatomic molecule.
  • Apply the law of equipartition of energy to monatomic and diatomic molecules.
  • Compare the emission of thermal radiation from a body with blackbody radiation.
  • Apply Stefan’s law of radiation to hot bodies .
  • Identify thermodynamic processes in everyday life.
  • Relate mechanical work and thermodynamic work.
  • Differentiate between different types of thermodynamic processes.
  • Explain the working of a heat engine, a refrigerator and an air conditioner.

Unit 3:

Oscillations and Waves

  • Identify periodic motion and simple harmonic motion.
  • Obtain the laws of motion for a simple pendulum.
  • Visualise damped oscillations.
  • Apply wave theory to understand the phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference and diffraction.
  • Visualise polarised and unpolarized light.
  • Apply concepts of diffraction to calculate the resolving power.
  • Distinguish between the stationary waves in pipes with open and closed ends.
  • Verify laws of vibrating string using a sonometer.
  • Explain the physics involved in musical instruments

Unit 4:

Electrostatics and electric current

  • Use Gaus's law to obtain the electric field for a charge distribution.
  • Relate potential energy to work done to establish a charge distribution.
  • Determine the electrostatic potential for a given charge distribution.
  • Distinguish between conductors and insulators.
  • Visualise polarisation of dielectrics.
  • Categorise dielectrics based on molecular properties.
  • Know the effect of the dielectric material used between the plates of a capacitor on its capacitance.
  • Apply Kirchhoff’s laws to determine the current in different branches of a circuit.
  • Find the value of an unknown resistance by using a meter bridge.
  • Find the emf and internal resistance of a cell using a potentiometer.
  • Convert a galvanometer into a voltmeter and an ammeter by using a suitable resistor.

Unit 5:

Magnetism

  • Realise that the Lorentz force law is the basis for defining the unit of magnetic field.
  • Visualise cyclotron motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field.
  • Analyse and calculate the magnetic force on a straight and arbitrarily shaped current-carrying wire and a closed wire circuit.
  • Apply the Biot-Savart law to calculate the magnetic field produced by various distributions of currents.
  • Use Ampere’s law to get magnetic fields produced by a current distribution.
  • Compare gravitational, magnetic and electrostatic potentials.
  • Distinguish between paramagnetic, diamagnetic and ferromagnetic materials.
  • Relate the concept of flux to the experiments of Faraday and Henry.
  • Relate Lenz’s law to the conservation of energy.
  • Visualise the concept of eddy currents.
  • Determine the mutual inductance of a given pair of coils.
  • Apply the laws of induction to explain the working of a generator.
  • Establish a relation between the power dissipated by an AC current in a resistor and the value of the rms current.
  • Visualise the concept of phases to represent AC current.
  • Explain the passage of AC current through circuits having resistors, capacitors and inductors.
  • Explain the concept of resonance in LCR circuits.

Unit 6:

Modern Physics

  • Establish the validity of the particle nature of light from experimental results.
  • Determine the necessary wavelength range of radiation to obtain photocurrent from given metals.
  • Visualise the dual nature of matter and the dual nature of light.
  • Apply the wave nature of electrons to illustrate how better resolution can be obtained with an electron microscope.
  • Check the correctness of different atomic models by comparing the results of various experiments.
  • Identify the constituents of atomic nuclei.
  • Differentiate between electromagnetic and atomic forces.
  • Obtain the age of a radioactive sample from its activity.
  • Judge the importance of nuclear power.
  • Explain the use of p-n junction diode as a rectifier.
  • Find applications of special-purpose diodes for everyday use.
  • Explain the working of a solar cell, LED and a photodiode.
  • Relate the p-n junction diode and special-purpose diodes.
  • Realise the transistor as an important building block of electronic circuits, and analyse situations in which a transistor can be used.

Maharashtra HSC Physics Syllabus 2025-26 for Practicals

The list of practicals that you may have to perform in the Maharashtra Board HSC exam 2026 are listed below:

  • To determine Young’s modulus of elasticity of the material of a given wire.
  • To find the force constant and effective mass of the helical spring by plotting the T2--m graph using a method of oscillations.
  • To determine the surface tension of water by capillary rise method.
  • To study the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time by plotting a cooling curve.
  • To study the relation between frequency and length of a given wire under constant tension using a sonometer.
  • To study the relation between the length of a given wire and tension for constant frequency using a sonometer.
  • To find the speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube.
  • To find resistance of a given wire using a metre bridge and hence determine the specific resistance of its material.
  • To verify the laws of combination (series/ parallel) of resistances using a metre bridge.
  • To compare the emf of two given cells using potentiometer.
  • To determine the internal resistance of a given cell using potentiometer.
  • To determine resistance of a galvanometer using a metre bridge.
  • To draw the I-V characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward bias and reverse bias.
  • To study the characteristics of a common emitter npn or pnp transistor and to find out the values of current and voltage gains.
  • To draw the characteristic curve of a zener diode and to determine its reverse breakdown voltage.

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