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