Course Structure

Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for CSIR NET Exam

Section	Expected No. of Questions	Expected Marks
Part-A	4-5	14-17.5
Part-B	3-4	15-20

• There will be approximately 30-38 marks out of 200 marks for CSIR-NET Exam.
• Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for GATE Exam: 6 to 7 Questions and 9-12 marks out of 100 marks.
• Expected Number of Questions & Marks Weightage for JEST Exam: 5 to 6 Questions and 12-13 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: Electrostatics

• Electrostatics: Gauss’s Law and Applications, Laplace and Poisson Equations and Boundary Value Problems
• Method of Images, Multipole Expansion

Module 2: Magnetostatics

• Magnetostatics: Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Law

Module 3: Dynamics of Charged Particles

• Dynamics of Charged Particles in Static and Uniform Electromagnetic Fields 

Module 4: Electrodynamics & Maxwell Equations

• Electrodynamics: Faraday’s Law, Displacement Current, 
• Maxwell’s Equations & Boundary Conditions at Interfaces
• Lorentz Invariance of Maxwell's Equations

Module 5: Potentials & Invariances

• Scalar and Vector Potentials: Coulomb and Lorentz Gauges; Gauge Invariance

Module 6: Electromagnetic Waves

• Electromagnetic Waves: Propagation in Free Space and Media; Reflection, Transmission, Polarization, Fresnel's Law
• Poynting Vector and Theorem
• Radiation: Moving Charges, Dipoles, Retarded Potentials

Module 7: Plasma & Waveguides

• Dispersion Relations in Plasma 
• Transmission Lines and Waveguides

Module 8: Optical Phenomena

• Optical Phenomena: Interference, Diffraction, Coherence

Reference Books:

• Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths