This article is aimed at helping students prepare for the GRE Phyics subject test. It will contain helpful hints and tips along with a jumping off spot for exploring the subjcects that will be on the test. please contribute your own ideas with the forum or through corrections/addendum.
Since 1997, the percentage of allocated test questions does not appear to have changed and is given in the below table.
Classical mechanics | 20% |
Electromagnetism | 18% |
Optics and wave phenomena | 9% |
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics | 10% |
quantum mechanics | 12% |
Atomic Physics | 10% |
special relativity | 6% |
Laboratory Methods | 6% |
Spceialized Topics | 9% |
- Newton's laws of motion
- friction
- collisions
- Oscillations
- Uniform Circular Motion
examples:
- example constant acceleration and speed of sound
- 1D example of the relation between force and potential energy
- Circuits
- Induction
- Electric Field
- Electric Potential
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- Specific heat
- conduction
- Heat and work
- Mean Free Path
- The Bohr Model
- atomic spectra
- Zeeman effect
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