JAMB Physics syllabus

The JAMB Physics syllabus has 62 examinable topics, listed alphabetically in full below. This is the same breakdown Handbook uses to track which topics you have mastered and which are still costing you marks.

All 62 topics on the JAMB Physics syllabus

1. 01Atmospheric Pressure
2. 02Capacitors
3. 03Change of State
4. 04Characteristics of Sound Waves
5. 05Conditions for equilibrium of rigid bodies
6. 06Conduction of Electricity Through Liquids
7. 07Current Electricity
8. 08Derived physical quantities and their units
9. 09Dispersion of Light and Colours
10. 10Elasticity
11. 11Electric Cells
12. 12Electrical Energy and Power
13. 13Electromagnetic Induction
14. 14Electromagnetic Spectrum
15. 15Electrostatics
16. 16Elementary Modern Physics
17. 17Energy and society
18. 18Equilibrium of Forces
19. 19Equilibrium of particles
20. 20Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
21. 21Friction
22. 22Gas Laws
23. 23Gravitational Field
24. 24Heat Transfer
25. 25Hooke’s Law and Young’s Modulus
26. 26In a Magnetic Field
27. 27Inductance
28. 28Introductory Electronics
29. 29Kinetic Theory
30. 30Linear motion
31. 31Liquids
32. 32Liquids At Rest
33. 33Magnets and Magnetic Fields
34. 34Mass
35. 35Measurements and Units
36. 36Molecular nature of matter
37. 37Motion
38. 38Motion in a circle
39. 39Newton’s laws of motion
40. 40Nuclear energy
41. 41Optical Instruments
42. 42Pressure
43. 43Pressure in liquids
44. 44Principles of moments
45. 45Projectiles
46. 46Propagation of light
47. 47Propagation of Sound Waves
48. 48Quantity of Heat
49. 49Reflection of Light
50. 50Refraction of Light
51. 51Scalars and Vectors
52. 52Simple A.C. Circuits
53. 53Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M)
54. 54Simple Machines
55. 55Solar energy
56. 56Sources of Light
57. 57Temperature and Its Measurement
58. 58Thermal Expansion
59. 59Types of motion
60. 60Vapours
61. 61Waves
62. 62Work, Energy and Power