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.
0.1 Classical Mechanics
- 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
0.2 Electromagnetism
- Circuits
- induction
- electric field
- Electric Potential
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0.3 Optics and Wave Phenomena
0.4 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Specific heat
- conduction
- Heat and work
- Mean Free Path
0.5 Quantum Mechanics
0.6 Atomic Physics
- The Bohr Model
- atomic spectra
- Zeeman effect
0.7 Special Relativity
0.8 Laboratory Methods
0.9 Spceialized Topics
