Questions
9
across 8 papers
Share of subject
2.3%
of 387 Physics Qs
Weightage rank
#21
of 30 chapters
Difficulty
3 easy · 4 medium · 2 hard
Laws of Motion contributed 9 of the 387 NEET Physics questions between 2020 and 2026 (Re-NEET 2026 included). That is 2.3% of the subject and makes it the #21 chapter out of 30 by weightage — roughly 1.1 questions per paper, peaking at 2 in NEET 2023.
Of the 9 questions tagged for difficulty, 33% were easy, 45% medium and 22% hard — a fairly balanced mix of easy and moderate questions.
It has been asked more often lately: 1.3 questions per paper across NEET 2025, NEET 2026 and Re-NEET 2026, against 0.7 in 2020–2022.
The single most-tested topic is Applications of Friction Force (Problems Involving Frictional Forces) — 3 questions across 3 papers.
7 topics tagged under Laws of Motion. Numbers show how many questions each topic had in each paper; E / M / H are the easy, medium and hard counts.
| Topic | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | Re | Total | E | M | H |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications of Friction Force (Problems Involving Frictional Forces) | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 2 | – | 1 |
| Application of Laws of Motion (Various Forces in Nature) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Friction (Friction as Contact Force and Friction Constant) | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Newton's First Law of Motion (Momentum) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Newton's Second Law of Motion | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Newton's Second Law of Motion (Application of Newton's Second Law of Motion) | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Newton's Second Law of Motion (Resultant Force) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
In the NEET papers from 2020 to 2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), 9 Physics questions came from Laws of Motion — 2.3% of the subject, or about 1.1 per paper.
By past weightage it ranks #21 of 30 Physics chapters, so it is a lower-weightage Physics chapter, with 9 questions over 2020–2026.
The most-tested topics are Applications of Friction Force (Problems Involving Frictional Forces) (3), Application of Laws of Motion (Various Forces in Nature) (1) and Friction (Friction as Contact Force and Friction Constant) (1). The topic table above lists every topic with its count in each paper.
Of the 9 difficulty-tagged questions, 33% were easy, 45% medium and 22% hard.
Applications of Friction Force (Problems Involving Frictional Forces), Newton's First Law of Motion (Momentum) and Newton's Second Law of Motion (Resultant Force) were asked in the 2026 papers.
Edurack has chapter-wise NEET previous-year questions for Laws of Motion. Use the practice button on this page to open the set, attempt questions and check your answers.
Counts come from Edurack's tagged set of NEET papers 2020–2026 (including Re-NEET 2026), mapped to NCERT chapters and topics. Use them as a trend guide — past frequency doesn't guarantee what a future paper will ask.