Product Description

This test preparation book includes four full-length exams with detailed explanations modeled after the actual GRE in Physics. Knowledge of mechanics, electromagnetism, atomic physics, physicoptics and wave phenomena, quantum mechanics, special relativity, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, laboratory methods, and advanced topics tested. Includes a general physics review of all topics tested on the exam. For physics students bound for graduate school.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #366045 in Books
• Published on: 1991-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Unhelpful, irrelevant
If you studied for the GRE Physics test with this book you would probably do really bad.

To be honest, the actual exam has very few involved calculations. Remember that you are not allowed to use a calculator, so all numbers tend to work out very nicely. The actual exam covers more concepts than really in depth problems.

This book, however, deals with complicated problems. There are many differential equations that need to be solved, and then boundary conditions placed on the solutions. I have not seen this in any GRE practice exam or when I took the exam.

The best test prep I can think of is to go through the practice exams and see what you know, what you need to review and then try it all again. Anything you get right twice, you can start skipping if you redo it a 3rd time. Make sure to keep time -- I just barely got through all 100 questions in the time given.

Horrible Book
Many of the answers they provide are simply wrong. The content does not match the actual Physics GRE material.

Really good
This book covers a lot of material.
There's much even a bright undergraduate student in Physics is not expected to have studied or ever encountered.
But so goes the GRE exam too, to a lesser extent.
This can be somewhat annoying for those who are accustomed to quickly and easily going through problem sets.
However, provided you accept working on the exercises of this book as something which will add to your background and "enlightment", not merely as exercises that will test how well you master the minimal physics background every would-be graduate student is expected to be well acquainted with, you will greatly benefit from this book.