Haryana Board HBSE Class 11th Physics Syllabus 2025, Download PDF Here

The Haryana Central Board of School Education has published the syllabi for numerous subjects on its official website. This information is crucial for newly enrolled class 11 students needing academic direction. Specifically, the physics syllabus is available for download as a PDF below.

This syllabus is a key resource that details the curriculum, learning goals, and assessment methods for the subject for the 2025-26 academic year. By making these syllabi easily accessible, the board intends to assist students and teachers in achieving a well-organised and knowledgeable learning journey.

HBSE Board Class 11 Physics Syllabus 2025-26 and Chapter-wise distribution of Marks

Class- XI 

Subject: Physics 

Code: 850 

General Instructions: 

1. There will be an Annual Examination based on the entire syllabus. 
2. The annual examination (Theory) will be of 70 Marks, whereas Practical examination will be of 30 marks (Internal). Therefore, the Total annual evaluation (70+30) will be of 100 marks. 
3. For the Practical examination, the criteria are as follows:

Total Time: 3 Hours

HBSE Class 11 Physics Chapter Wise Weightage of Marks and Course Structure

The syllabus provides a detailed list of chapter and their weightage of marks in the table below.

HBSE CLASS 11 Physics Syllabus Total Units And Chapters 

UNIT I: Physical World and Measurement

Chapter 1: Units and Measurement

The International System of Units, Significant Figures: Rules for Arithmetic Operations with Significant Figures, rounding off the Uncertain Digits, Rules for Determining the Uncertainty in the Results of Arithmetic Calculations, Dimensions of Physical Quantities, Dimensional Formulae and Dimensional Equations, Dimensional Analysis and its Applications: Checking the Dimensional Consistency of Equations, Deducing Relation among the Physical Quantities.

UNIT II: Kinematics

Chapter 2: Motion in a Straight Line

Instantaneous Velocity and Speed, Acceleration, Kinematic Equations for Uniformly Accelerated Motion, x-t, v-t and a-t graphs

Chapter 3: Motion in a Plane

Scalars And Vectors: Position and Displacement Vectors, Equality of Vectors, Multiplication Of Vectors By Real Numbers, Addition And Subtraction Of Vectors — Graphical Method, Resolution Of Vectors, Vector Addition – Analytical Method, Motion In A Plane, Motion In A Plane With Constant Acceleration, Projectile Motion, Uniform Circular Motion

UNIT III: Laws of Motion

Chapter 4: Laws of Motion

Aristotle’s Fallacy, The Law Of Inertia, Newton’s First Law Of Motion, momentum, impulse, Newton’s Second Law Of Motion, Newton’s Third Law Of Motion, Conservation Of Momentum, Equilibrium Of A Particle, Common Forces In Mechanics: Friction, rolling friction, Circular Motion: motion of a car on a level road, banked road, Solving Problems In Mechanics

UNIT IV: Work, Energy and Power

Chapter 5: Work, Energy and Power

The Scalar Product, Notions of Work And Kinetic Energy: The WorkEnergy Theorem, Work, Kinetic Energy, Work Done by a Variable, Force, The Work-Energy Theorem for a Variable Force, The Concept of Potential Energy, The Conservation of Mechanical Energy, The Potential Energy Of A Spring, conservative and non-conservative force, Power, Collisions: Elastic And Inelastic Collisions, Collisions In One Dimension, Collisions In Two Dimensions.

UNIT V: Motion of System of Particles and Rigid Body

Chapter 6: Systems of Particles and Rotational Motion

What kind of motion can a rigid body have, Centre of Mass, Motion of Centre of Mass, Linear Momentum of a System of Particles, Vector Product of Two Vectors, Angular Velocity and its Relation with Linear Velocity: Angular Acceleration, Torque and Angular Momentum: Moment of Force (Torque), Angular Momentum of a Particle, Equilibrium of a Rigid Body: Principle of Moments, Centre of Gravity, Moment of Inertia, Kinematics of Rotational Motion about a Fixed Axis, work done by torque, Dynamics of Rotational Motion about a Fixed Axis, Angular Momentum in Case of Rotation about a Fixed Axis: Conservation of Angular Momentum.

UNIT VI: Gravitation

Chapter 7: Gravitation

Kepler’s Laws, the Universal Law of Gravitation, The Gravitational Constant, Acceleration Due to the Gravity of the Earth, Acceleration Due to Gravity below and above the Surface of the Earth, Gravitational Potential Energy, Escape Speed, Earth Satellites, Energy of an Orbiting Satellite.

UNIT VII: Properties of Bulk Matter

Chapter 8: Mechanical Properties of Solids

Stress and Strain, Hooke’s Law, Stress-Strain Curve, Elastic Moduli: Young’s Modulus, Shear Modulus, Bulk Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire, Applications of Elastic Behaviour of Materials.

Chapter 9: Mechanical Properties of Fluids

Pressure: Pascal’s Law, Variation of Pressure with Depth, Atmospheric Pressure and Gauge Pressure, Hydraulic Machines, Streamline Flow, Bernoulli’s Principle: Speed of Efflux: Torricelli’s Law, Dynamic Lift, Viscosity: Stokes’ Law, Surface Tension: Surface Energy, Surface Energy And Surface Tension, Angle of Contact, Drops and Bubbles, Capillary Rise.

Chapter 10: Thermal Properties of Matter

Temperature and Heat, Measurement of Temperature Ideal-Gas Equation and Absolute Temperature, Thermal Expansion, Thermal stress, Specific Heat Capacity, Molar specific heat capacity, Calorimetry, Change of State: Latent Heat, Heat Transfer: Conduction, Convection, Radiation, Weins displacement law, Stefan- Boltzmann law, Newton’s Law of Cooling.

UNIT VIII: Thermodynamics

Chapter 11: Thermodynamics

Thermal Equilibrium, Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics, Heat, Internal Energy and Work, First Law of Thermodynamics, Specific Heat Capacity, Specific heat capacity of water, Thermodynamic State Variables and Equation of State, Thermodynamic Processes: QuasiStatic Process, Isothermal Process, Adiabatic Process, Isochoric Process, Isobaric Process, Cyclic Process, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Reversible and Irreversible Processes.

UNIT IX: Behaviour of Perfect Gases and Kinetic Theory of Gases

Chapter 12: Kinetic Theory

Molecular Nature of Matter, Behaviour of Gases, Kinetic Theory of an Ideal Gas: Pressure of an Ideal Gas, Kinetic Interpretation of Temperature, Law of Equipartition of Energy, Specific Heat Capacity: Monatomic Gases, Diatomic Gases, Polyatomic Gases, Mean Free Path.

UNIT X: Oscillations and Waves

Chapter 13: Oscillations

Periodic and Oscillatory Motions: Period and Frequency, Displacement, Simple Harmonic Motion, Simple Harmonic Motion and Uniform Circular Motion, Velocity and Acceleration in Simple Harmonic Motion, Force Law for Simple Harmonic Motion, Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion, The Simple Pendulum.

Chapter 14: Waves

Transverse and Longitudinal Waves, Displacement Relation in a Progressive Wave: Amplitude and Phase, Wavelength and Angular Wave Number, Period, Angular Frequency and Frequency, The Speed of a Travelling Wave: Speed of a Transverse Wave on Stretched String, Speed of a Longitudinal Wave (Speed Of Sound), The Principle of Superposition of Waves, Reflection of Waves: Standing Waves and Normal Modes, Stretched string fixed at both ends, Organ pipe, Beats.

PRACTICALS:

The record to be submitted by the students at the time of their annual examination must include:

• Record at least 08 Experiments [with 4 from each section], to be performed by the students.
• Record at least 6 Activities [with 3 each from section A and section B], to be performed by the students.
• The Report of the project carried out by the students.

Section-A

1. Use of vernier callipers

• To measure the diameter of a small spherical/cylindrical body.
• To measure dimensions of a given regular body of known mass and hence find its density.
• To measure the internal diameter & depth of a given beaker and find its volume

2. Use of Screw gauge:-

• To measure the diameter of a given wire.
• To measure the thickness of a given sheet.
• To measure the volume of an irregular lamina.

3. To determine the radius of curvature of a given spherical surface by a spherometer.
4. To measure the mass of two different objects using a beam balance.
5. To find the weight of a given body using the parallelogram law of vector.
6. Using a simple pendulum, plot L-T and L-T2 graphs. Find the effective length of a second’s pendulum using the appropriate Graph.
7. To study the relationship between the free of limiting friction and normal reaction and to find the coefficient of friction between a block and a horizontal surface.
8. To find the downward force along on an inclined plane acting on a roller due to the gravitational pull of the earth and study its relationship with the angle of inclination by plotting a graph between free and sin Ɵ.

Section-B

1. To determine Young’s modulus of elasticity of the material of a given wire.
2. To find the force constant and effective mass of a helical spring by plottingT2- m graph using the Method of oscillations.
3. To study the variation in volume with pressure for a sample of air at constant temperature by plotting graphs between P&V and P&1/V.
4. To determine the surface tension of water by the capillary rise method.
5. To determine the coefficient of viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of a given spherical body.
6. To study the relationship between the temperature of a hot body and time by plotting a cooling curve.
7. To study the relation between the length of a given wire and tension for constant frequency using a sonometer.
8. To find the speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube by two resonance positions.
9. To determine the Specific heat Capacity of a given 1. Solid 2. Liquid by Methods of mixtures.

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