The book attempts to describe the subject matter in minimum words, without sacrificing on necessary details. Most of the books for class XII physics students, based on CBSE syllabus, which are presently available in the market, have a frightening size, running into about 1500 pages or more. in the present book, any superfluous material or repetitions have been avoided. Thus a compact book consisting of less than 650 pages has been produced.

The book is equally useful to the engineering and medical streams of students, as also to the candidates taking the entrance examinations for these streams.