Physics topics

MDCAT Practice. 227 topics across 16 chapters — 5,147 questions in all. Each topic can be practised on its own, one question at a time with the explanation, or read with the answers shown.

Alternating Current

211 questions · 5 topics

Phase of AC 65 questions Practice Read
AC through capacitor 43 questions Practice Read
AC through resistor 38 questions Practice Read
AC through inductor 36 questions Practice Read
Electromagnetic Waves 29 questions Practice Read

Atomic Spectra

199 questions · 8 topics

Bohr's atomic theory 52 questions Practice Read
Hydrogen spectrum and its series 52 questions Practice Read
Spectra and their types 26 questions Practice Read
Production of atomic spectra (emission vs absorption spectra) 20 questions Practice Read
Limiting wavelength of hydrogen spectral series 17 questions Practice Read
First line of hydrogen spectral series 12 questions Practice Read
Ratio of shortest to longest wavelength of hydrogen spectral series 11 questions Practice Read
Maximum number of possible transitions 9 questions Practice Read

Circular Motion

286 questions · 21 topics

Centripetal force and Centripetal acceleration 77 questions Practice Read
Angular displacement 49 questions Practice Read
Angular velocity 30 questions Practice Read
Angular acceleration 17 questions Practice Read
Clock hand questions 16 questions Practice Read
Equations of motion and Newton's laws for angular motion 12 questions Practice Read
Uniform vs non-uniform circular motion 12 questions Practice Read
Angular motion and its types 11 questions Practice Read
Angular momentum and law of conservation of angular momentum 7 questions Practice Read
Rigid body and its properties 7 questions Practice Read
Tangential vs radial vs axial quantities 7 questions Practice Read
Work done by centripetal force 7 questions Practice Read
Angular analogues (moments) 6 questions Practice Read
Rotational KE and Banking of roads 6 questions Practice Read
Torque and couple 6 questions Practice Read
Assumptions during angular motion 4 questions Practice Read
Moment of inertia 4 questions Practice Read
Angular frequency 3 questions Practice Read
Horizontal vs vertical circle 3 questions Practice Read
Force on a particle moving in a vertical circle 1 questions Practice Read
Velocity of a particle moving in a vertical circle 1 questions Practice Read

Current Electricity

351 questions · 17 topics

Internal resistance, emf and terminal potential difference 53 questions Practice Read
Equivalent resistance and equivalent power in parallel combination of resistors 44 questions Practice Read
Ohm's law 39 questions Practice Read
Resistance and resistivity 38 questions Practice Read
Energy dissipation and power dissipation in electric circuits 35 questions Practice Read
Equivalent resistance and equivalent power in series combination of resistors 33 questions Practice Read
Effect of stretching and compressing a wire on resistance and resistivity of wire 25 questions Practice Read
Effect of temperature on resistance and resistivity 21 questions Practice Read
Introduction to current and charge carriers 19 questions Practice Read
Maximum power theorem 13 questions Practice Read
Drift velocity 9 questions Practice Read
Batteries in series 7 questions Practice Read
Batteries in parallel 6 questions Practice Read
Current vs time graph 3 questions Practice Read
Kirchoff's laws 3 questions Practice Read
Wheatstone bridge 2 questions Practice Read
Complex circuits 1 questions Practice Read

Dawn of Modern Physics

270 questions · 7 topics

Photoelectric effect 58 questions Practice Read
Photon theory of light 57 questions Practice Read
Pair production and annihilation of matter 46 questions Practice Read
Wave particle duality 45 questions Practice Read
Compton's effect 37 questions Practice Read
Comparison of classical physics and modern physics 21 questions Practice Read
Blackbody radiation 6 questions Practice Read

Electromagnetic Induction

338 questions · 14 topics

Introduction to transformer 52 questions Practice Read
Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction 51 questions Practice Read
Working of an AC generator 36 questions Practice Read
Introduction to electromagnetic induction 31 questions Practice Read
Lenz's law 31 questions Practice Read
Motional emf 30 questions Practice Read
Mutual Induction 23 questions Practice Read
Losses in a transformer 21 questions Practice Read
Applications of Lenz's law 17 questions Practice Read
Step up vs Step down transformer 16 questions Practice Read
Self Induction 13 questions Practice Read
Efficiency of a transformer 12 questions Practice Read
Energy stored in an inductor 3 questions Practice Read
Back motor effect 2 questions Practice Read

Electromagnetism

294 questions · 16 topics

Force on a moving charge in a magnetic field 37 questions Practice Read
Magnetic flux 34 questions Practice Read
Circular path of a moving charge in magnetic field 33 questions Practice Read
Introduction to electromagnetism 24 questions Practice Read
Lorentz force and velocity selector 20 questions Practice Read
Magnetic field around a straight current carrying conductor 18 questions Practice Read
Ampere's law for a solenoid 16 questions Practice Read
Force on a current carrying conductor 16 questions Practice Read
Magnetic field around a loop of wire carrying current 16 questions Practice Read
Helical path of a charged particle in magnetic field 13 questions Practice Read
Magnetic field of a solenoid 13 questions Practice Read
Path of a moving charge in an electric field 13 questions Practice Read
Force between two current-carrying conductors 12 questions Practice Read
Magnetic flux density / Magnetic Induction 12 questions Practice Read
Torque on a current carrying coil 10 questions Practice Read
Ampere's law for a straight conductor 7 questions Practice Read

Electronics

248 questions · 7 topics

p-n junction and its properties 81 questions Practice Read
Semi-conductors 49 questions Practice Read
Rectification and its types 40 questions Practice Read
Form factor, ripple factor and peak inverse voltage 26 questions Practice Read
Characteristic IV curve of a diode 24 questions Practice Read
Full wave rectification 16 questions Practice Read
Half wave rectification 12 questions Practice Read

Electrostatics

564 questions · 26 topics

Coulomb's law 74 questions Practice Read
Electric potential and potential difference 64 questions Practice Read
Electric field 48 questions Practice Read
Capacitors and capacitance 44 questions Practice Read
Energy stored in a capacitor 39 questions Practice Read
Charging and discharging of a capacitor 36 questions Practice Read
Series and parallel combinations of capacitors 36 questions Practice Read
Introduction to charge 35 questions Practice Read
Applications of Gauss's law 24 questions Practice Read
Neutral zone 22 questions Practice Read
Electric field as potential gradient 17 questions Practice Read
Gauss's law 17 questions Practice Read
Graphical explanation of potential changes for a sphere 17 questions Practice Read
Effect of insertion of dielectric between the plates of a capacitor with battery connected 13 questions Practice Read
Electric field lines 12 questions Practice Read
Electric polarization of dielectric 12 questions Practice Read
Electric flux 11 questions Practice Read
Effect of insertion of dielectric between the plates of a capacitor with battery disconnected 8 questions Practice Read
Effect of increasing the separation between the plates of a capacitor with battery connected 6 questions Practice Read
Time constant 6 questions Practice Read
Electric field vs distance graph for a system of two charges 5 questions Practice Read
Energy sharing between capacitors 5 questions Practice Read
Q-T curves for charging and discharging 5 questions Practice Read
Effect of increasing the separation between the plates of a capacitor with battery disconnected 4 questions Practice Read
Q-T, I-T, V-T graphs for charging and discharging of capacitor 3 questions Practice Read
Third charge at equilibrium between two charges 1 questions Practice Read

Fluid Dynamics

240 questions · 6 topics

Equation of Continuity 47 questions Practice Read
Bernoulli's Effect 46 questions Practice Read
Bernoulli's Equation for a Horizontal Tube of Different Heights at Different Portions 42 questions Practice Read
Bernoulli's Equation for Blood Physics 41 questions Practice Read
Fluid Flow 36 questions Practice Read
Torricelli's Theorem 28 questions Practice Read

Force and Motion

582 questions · 31 topics

Height, range and time of flight of a projectile 53 questions Practice Read
Dot product & cross product 48 questions Practice Read
Momentum and impulse 39 questions Practice Read
Distance, displacement, speed and velocity 31 questions Practice Read
Elastic collision in one dimension 31 questions Practice Read
Average velocity and relative velocity 30 questions Practice Read
Newton's second law of motion 30 questions Practice Read
Projectile motion and its types 28 questions Practice Read
Horizontal projectile 24 questions Practice Read
Equations of motion for a freely falling body 23 questions Practice Read
Equations of motion 20 questions Practice Read
v-t and a-t graphs 20 questions Practice Read
Conditions of equilibrium 19 questions Practice Read
d-t graphs 18 questions Practice Read
Oblique projectile 17 questions Practice Read
Vectors and their types (position vector, unit vector) 16 questions Practice Read
Distance covered in n seconds and nth second for a freely falling body 15 questions Practice Read
Law of conservation of linear momentum 15 questions Practice Read
Perpendicular components of a vector 15 questions Practice Read
Acceleration 14 questions Practice Read
Acceleration and its types (uniform and instantaneous acceleration) 13 questions Practice Read
Acceleration due to gravity 12 questions Practice Read
Newton's first law of motion 11 questions Practice Read
d-t and v-t graphs for an object falling freely 8 questions Practice Read
Newton's third law of motion 8 questions Practice Read
KE of a projectile 7 questions Practice Read
Head-to-tail rule and law of cosine 5 questions Practice Read
Inclined plane 4 questions Practice Read
PE of a projectile 4 questions Practice Read
Trigonometric functions 3 questions Practice Read
Elastic collision in two dimensions 1 questions Practice Read

Nuclear Physics

365 questions · 16 topics

Absorbed dose, equivalent dose and uses of radiations 93 questions Practice Read
Half life 57 questions Practice Read
Radioactivity, nuclear transmutation and laws of radioactivity 30 questions Practice Read
Beta emission 27 questions Practice Read
Decay constant 27 questions Practice Read
Decay rate 25 questions Practice Read
Theories about nucleus and nucleons 21 questions Practice Read
Comparison of alpha, beta and gamma rays 18 questions Practice Read
Alpha emission 16 questions Practice Read
Mean life and third life 14 questions Practice Read
Nuclear radius, nuclear volume and nuclear forces (weak and strong nuclear forces) 12 questions Practice Read
Gamma emission 8 questions Practice Read
Isotopes, isotones, isobars and isodiaphers 8 questions Practice Read
Gamma rays vs X-rays 5 questions Practice Read
Notation for writing nuclear equation 2 questions Practice Read
Types of radiation 2 questions Practice Read

Oscillations and Waves

561 questions · 22 topics

Speed of sound in air 67 questions Practice Read
Basics of wave motion 60 questions Practice Read
Waves and its types 49 questions Practice Read
Stationary waves in a stretched string 46 questions Practice Read
Stationary waves in an air column 42 questions Practice Read
Basics of SHM (amplitude, wavelength, time period, frequency) 41 questions Practice Read
Doppler's effect 37 questions Practice Read
Superposition principle 34 questions Practice Read
Introduction to stationary waves 32 questions Practice Read
Energy conservation in SHM 29 questions Practice Read
Phase difference and Path difference 29 questions Practice Read
Basics of SHM (v-t graph, d-t graph, a-x graph and v-x graph for SHM) 25 questions Practice Read
SHM and circular motion 13 questions Practice Read
Electromagnetic waves and their properties 10 questions Practice Read
Simple pendulum 10 questions Practice Read
Mass-spring system 9 questions Practice Read
Phase of SHM 9 questions Practice Read
Reflection and refraction of waves 9 questions Practice Read
Motion of source relative to observer 4 questions Practice Read
Periodic motion and its types and SHM 3 questions Practice Read
Motion of observer relative to source 2 questions Practice Read
Motion of source and observer together at the same time 1 questions Practice Read

Out of the physics syllabus

17 questions · 1 topics

Out of the physics syllabus 17 questions Practice Read

Thermodynamics

293 questions · 11 topics

Thermodynamic processes and their types (isothermal, isobaric, adiabatic and isochoric) 70 questions Practice Read
Laws of thermodynamics 40 questions Practice Read
Types of molar specific heat (at constant pressure and at constant volume) 40 questions Practice Read
Gas laws 31 questions Practice Read
Introduction to thermodynamics and kinetic molecular theory of gases 29 questions Practice Read
Thermodynamic system and its types 20 questions Practice Read
Heat and work 17 questions Practice Read
State variables and path variables 17 questions Practice Read
Temperature scales 14 questions Practice Read
Kinetic Interpretation of temperature 8 questions Practice Read
Thermodynamic equilibrium 7 questions Practice Read

Work and Energy

328 questions · 19 topics

Power 42 questions Practice Read
Work and its types 42 questions Practice Read
Kinetic energy 41 questions Practice Read
Work-energy principle 27 questions Practice Read
Absolute gravitational PE 22 questions Practice Read
Potential energy (gravitational and elastic) 22 questions Practice Read
Conservative vs non-conservative field 17 questions Practice Read
Electron volt and horsepower 16 questions Practice Read
Stopping distance and stopping time 15 questions Practice Read
Interconversion of energies 13 questions Practice Read
Brick Stacking Problems 11 questions Practice Read
Energy and its types 10 questions Practice Read
Efficiency 9 questions Practice Read
Interconversion of energies for a simple pendulum 9 questions Practice Read
Calculating velocity of a dropped object anywhere in the air and on hitting the ground 8 questions Practice Read
Conditions where work done is zero 8 questions Practice Read
Calculating velocity of fluid escaping from a hole in a container filled with fluid 6 questions Practice Read
Object falling down in absence and in presence of friction 5 questions Practice Read
Object thrown upwards in absence and in presence of friction 5 questions Practice Read