Course Structure

Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for CSIR NET Exam

Section	Expected No. of Questions	Expected Marks
Part-A	3-4	10.5-14
Part-B	2-3	10-15

• There will be approximately 20-30 marks out of 200 marks for CSIR-NET Exam.
• Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for GATE Exam: 4 to 5 Questions and 6-10 marks out of 100 marks.
• Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for JEST Exam: 8 to 9 Questions and 16-20 marks out of 100 marks.

Course Details:

We designed this integrated syllabus to provide a comprehensive and efficient preparation pathway for CSIR-NET, GATE, JEST, and SET exams by unifying overlapping topics, enabling aspirants to master core physics concepts and confidently appear for multiple competitive exams with a single course.

We separated the syllabus into focused modules to cover common topics across CSIR-NET, GATE, JEST, and SET, ensuring efficient and targeted preparation.

Module 1: Fundamentals of Thermodynamics

• Laws of Thermodynamics and Their Consequences; Thermodynamic Potentials; Maxwell Relations
• Chemical Potential

Module 2: Phase Transitions & Critical Phenomenone

• Phase Equilibria; Critical Points

Module 3: Radiation and Kinetic Theory

• Blackbody Radiation and Planck’s Law
• Kinetic Theory of Gases

Module 4: Foundation of Statistical Mechanics

• Statistical Ensembles: Microcanonical, Canonical, Grand-Canonical

Module 5: Partition Function and Thermodynamics Quantitites

• Partition Functions; Free Energy; Thermodynamic Quantities

Module 6: Classical & Quantum Statistics

• Classical and Quantum Statistics
• Classical Ideas Gas, Harmonic Oscillators

Module 7: Quantum Gasses

• Ideal Bose and Fermi Gases; Bose-Einstein Condensation
• Degenerate Fermi Gas
• First and Second Order Phase Transitions

Module 8: Stochastic Processes

• Random Walk; Diffusion Equation; Brownian Motion
• Principle of Detailed Balance

Module 9: Magnetic Systems

• Statistics of Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism and Ferromagnetism, Ising Model

Module 10: Introduction to Non-equilibrium Processes

• Non-equilibrium Processes (Introduction)

Reference Books:

• Thermodynamics by Garg, Bansal and Ghosh
• Statistical Mechanics by R.K Pathria
• Fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics and Thermal Physics by F. Reif