1st Year Physics Chapter 2 Notes (New Book 2025-26): Force and Motion – All Punjab Boards
Force and Motion is often the chapter where physics problems start to feel like puzzles. A question describes an object that is pushed, pulled or moving, and your job is to turn those words into quantities and equations. These notes cover Chapter 2 of the new PECTAA Class 11 Physics textbook, which Punjab boards have used since the 2025-26 session, and they give you worked material to practise that skill.
Five parts make up the file: MCQs, short questions with answers, long questions with answers, numericals with solutions, and the solved end-of-chapter exercise. You can download it free on this page itself.
The notes belong to the new book alone. Before 2025-26, Class 11 students in Punjab studied from a different physics textbook with its own sequence of chapters, so guides written for that course may not match this chapter’s questions.
The same file serves FSc students in all nine Punjab boards, from Rawalpindi and Gujranwala to Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan. Read on for a description of each part, a table linking the parts to the paper, and a study routine for a problem-heavy chapter.
About Chapter 2 in brief
Going by its title, Force and Motion is concerned with how forces relate to the way objects move. Broadly, it looks at what changes an object’s motion and how that change can be described with quantities. What follows is a guide to the notes, not a summary of the chapter itself.
What’s inside the 1st year physics chapter 2 notes
Five sections divide the Chapter 2 notes. Each section prepares you for a different style of question, so it pays to use them for different purposes.
MCQs
The MCQs check how well you can tell related ideas apart. In a chapter about forces and motion, a single word in a statement can change whether it is true, and multiple-choice options are a good test of whether you notice that word.
Try a set under light time pressure, about a minute per question. Afterwards, sort your errors into two piles: ideas you misunderstood, and questions you misread. Each pile needs a different fix, one in the textbook and the other in how carefully you read.
Short questions with answers
Short questions in this part come with written answers. Expect questions that ask why something happens, what a law states, or how one quantity affects another.
Notice how a good short answer often gives a reason in one sentence and then backs it with a simple example. When you practise, try that pattern yourself: state the point, then show it in a single concrete case. Keep the example small and familiar so it does not take over the answer.
Long questions with answers
The long-question part offers detailed answers to extended questions. In a chapter like this one, such questions can ask you to explain a principle with reasoning, describe a situation in stages, or relate two ideas to each other.
Before reading an answer, spend two minutes writing your own outline for the same question. Then read the answer in the notes and compare outlines rather than wording. Missing stages show up quickly this way, and you end up with a plan you understand instead of a paragraph you memorised.
Numericals (solved)
This part presents solved numerical problems on Chapter 2. Problems on force and motion often involve several steps and more than one formula, so this section deserves regular time in your week.
Start each attempt on paper, not in your head. Draw a rough sketch of the situation if it helps, mark directions, and list what is given and what is unknown. Pick the relation that links them, then substitute values with their units. When you compare with the solution, check your setup first; an error often begins before any arithmetic is done.
Solved exercise
This part solves the exercise printed at the end of Chapter 2. Because the exercise comes straight from the textbook, it shows the range of questions the chapter is built to handle, from quick conceptual items to longer problems.
Treat it as an answer check, not a reading text. Attempt a batch of exercise questions first, then open the solutions for just those items. Leave a tick beside the ones you got right on your own and a circle beside the rest, and come back to the circled ones a few days later.
Why these notes are useful
Chapter 2 asks for a lot of practice, and the file keeps that practice organised.
- Tied to the PECTAA edition. The questions and solutions follow Chapter 2 of the 2025-26 textbook.
- Worked problems to check against. Solved numericals and the solved exercise let you test your own method.
- Theory and problems side by side. Short and long answers come in the same file as the numericals, so you can revise ideas and their use in the same session.
- Free download. You pay nothing for the file on this page.
Worked solutions can make a problem look easy. The real test is whether you can solve a similar one with the solution closed, so keep the textbook and your own attempts at the centre of your study.
Which exam questions these notes help with
Below, each part of the notes is matched with a type of question that commonly appears in the intermediate physics paper. Your board sets the actual pattern, number of questions and marks, so confirm the details in its official pairing scheme for the current session.
| Part of the notes | Type of paper question it relates to |
| MCQs | Multiple-choice questions set in the objective paper |
| Short questions with answers | Brief answers in the subjective section |
| Long questions with answers | Extended theory answers |
| Numericals (solved) | Problems needing calculation in the subjective section |
| Solved exercise | Items drawn from or modelled on the textbook exercise |
Guess papers and “important question” lists for Chapter 2 come from many sources, and none of them is official. Use them, if at all, only after you have worked through the chapter and the exercise yourself.
How to study with these notes
Force and motion problems become easier the more of them you solve. Here is a routine that keeps reading and practice in balance:
- Read a section of the chapter. Stop after each worked example in the book and redo it without looking.
- Write the laws in your own words. One or two lines each, on a single revision card.
- Try the exercise questions in rough. Include the numericals, even the ones that look hard.
- Mark your work against the solved exercise. Find exactly where your working went off track, not just whether the final answer matched.
- Practise the solved numericals. For each one, write the given data, the unknown, the formula and the units before you calculate, then compare with the solution.
- Rewrite a few short and long answers. Read, close the notes, and write from memory.
- Use the MCQs as a self-check. Revisit the textbook for each idea you got wrong.
Go back to the problems you circled once more just before a class test. Solving them cleanly a second time builds confidence that reading alone does not.
Who should use these notes
The notes are designed for Class 11 students in Punjab taking physics from the new 2025-26 textbook. Both FSc pre-engineering and pre-medical students have physics in their intermediate course, so both groups can use them.
Private candidates and other students with physics as a subject can use the file as well, provided their board has set the new book for their session.
Download the notes
You can download the 1st year physics chapter 2 notes free from this very page, with no need to visit any other site.
If you like working on paper, copy a few numericals into your notebook and keep your rough attempts beside them.
Frequently asked questions
Do these notes match the new Force and Motion chapter?
Yes. They are written for Chapter 2, Force and Motion, of the PECTAA Class 11 Physics book taught in Punjab from 2025-26.
Are numericals included for Chapter 2?
They are. The file has a section of solved numericals, and the solved exercise works through the problems set at the end of the chapter in the textbook.
I understand the theory but get stuck on problems. How can I improve?
Slow down at the setup stage. List the given values and the unknown, sketch the situation, and choose a formula only after that. Then compare your setup with the solved numericals.
Is there any fee for the file?
No. The Chapter 2 notes are free to download here.