PlanetPhysics/GRE Physics Study Guide

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
- 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

Electromagnetism
- Circuits \\ - Induction \\ - Electric Field \\ - Electric Potential \\ -

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Specific heat \\ - conduction \\ - Heat and work \\ - Mean Free Path \\

Atomic Physics
- The Bohr Model \\ - atomic spectra \\ - Zeeman effect \\