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PHYSICS (PH)
Mathematical Methods:Calculus of single and multiple variables, partial derivatives, Jacobian,
imperfect and perfect differentials, Taylor expansion, Fourier series. Vector algebra, Vector Calculus,
Multiple integrals, Divergence theorem, Greens theorem, Stokes theorem. First order equations and
linear second order differential equations with constant coefficients. Matrices and determinants,
Algebra of complex numbers.
Mechanics and General Properties of Matter:Newtons laws of motion and applications, Velocity
and acceleration in Cartesian, polar and cylindrical coordinate systems, uniformly rotating frame,
centrifugal and Coriolis forces, Motion under a central force, Keplers laws, Gravitational Law and
field, Conservative and non-conservative forces. System of particles, Center of mass, equation of
motion of the CM, conservation of linear and angular momentum, conservation of energy, variable
mass systems. Elastic and inelastic collisions. Rigid body motion, fixed axis rotations, rotation and
translation, moments of Inertia and products of Inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorem.
Principal moments and axes. Kinematics of moving fluids, equation of continuity, Eulers equation,
Bernoullis theorem.
Oscillations, Waves and Optics:Differential equation for simple harmonic oscillator and its general
solution. Superposition of two or more simple harmonic oscillators. Lissajous figures. Damped and
forced oscillators, resonance. Wave equation, traveling and standing waves in one-dimension.
Energy density and energy transmission in waves. Group velocity and phase velocity. Sound waves
in media. Doppler Effect. Fermats Principle. General theory of image formation. Thick lens, thin lens
and lens combinations. Interference of light, optical path retardation. Fraunhofer diffraction. Rayleigh
criterion and resolving power. Diffraction gratings. Polarization: linear, circular and elliptic
polarization. Double refraction and optical rotation.
Electricity and Magnetism:Coulombs law, Gausss law. Electric field and potential. Electrostatic
boundary conditions, Solution of Laplaces equation for simple cases. Conductors, capacitors,
dielectrics, dielectric polarization, volume and surface charges, electrostatic energy. Biot-Savart law,
Amperes law, Faradays law of electromagnetic induction, Self and mutual inductance. Alternating
currents. Simple DC and AC circuits with R, L and C components. Displacement current, Maxwells

equations and plane electromagnetic waves, Poyntings theorem, reflection and refraction at a
dielectric interface, transmission and reflection coefficients (normal incidence only). Lorentz Force
and motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields.
Kinetic theory, Thermodynamics:Elements of Kinetic theory of gases. Velocity distribution and
Equipartition of energy. Specific heat of Mono-, di- and tri-atomic gases. Ideal gas, van-der-Waals
gas and equation of state. Mean free path. Laws of thermodynamics. Zeroth law and concept of
thermal equilibrium. First law and its consequences. Isothermal and adiabatic processes. Reversible,
irreversible and quasi-static processes. Second law and entropy. Carnot cycle. Maxwells
thermodynamic relations and simple applications. Thermodynamic potentials and their applications.
Phase transitions and Clausius-Clapeyron equation. Ideas of ensembles, Maxwell-Boltzmann,
Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions.
Modern Physics:Inertial frames and Galilean invariance. Postulates of special relativity. Lorentz
transformations. Length contraction, time dilation. Relativistic velocity addition theorem, mass energy
equivalence. Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, Compton effect, Bohrs atomic model, X-rays.
Wave-particle duality, Uncertainty principle, the superposition principle, calculation of expectation
values, Schrdinger equation and its solution for one, two and three dimensional boxes. Solution of
Schrdinger equation for the one dimensional harmonic oscillator. Reflection and transmission at a
step potential, Pauli exclusion principle. Structure of atomic nucleus, mass and binding energy. Radioactivity and its applications. Laws of radioactive decay.
Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics: Crystal structure, Bravais lattices and basis. Miller
indices. X-ray diffraction and Bragg's law; Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, variation of
resistivity with temperature. Fermi level. p-n junction diode, I-V characteristics, Zener diode and its
applications, BJT: characteristics in CB, CE, CC modes. Single stage amplifier, two stage R-C
coupled amplifiers. Simple Oscillators: Barkhausen condition, sinusoidal oscillators. OPAMP and
applications: Inverting and non-inverting amplifier. Boolean algebra: Binary number systems;
conversion from one system to another system; binary addition and subtraction. Logic Gates AND,
OR, NOT, NAND, NOR exclusive OR; Truth tables; combination of gates; de Morgans theorem.

REFERENCE BOOKS
Mathematical Methods In The Physical Sciences: Mary L Boas
An Introduction to Mechanics: Kleppner and Kolenkow
Waves and Oscillations: N.K. Bajaj
Introduction to Electrodynamics: David J. Griffiths

 Quantum Physics: H.C. Verma

Solid State Physics: S.O. Pillai

1.IIT JAM physics by Anand Kumar

(medium -English)
Unique Publishers books
2.course in physics 2013
Publisher :Tata McGraw hill
3.IIT JAM Physics and Geo Physics by Vishal Deoarshi

Reference Books for Mathematical Methods

Mathematical Methods for Physicists by Arfken, Weber

Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas

Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering by Riley

Mathematical Methods in Physics and Engineering by John Warren Dettman

Introduction to Mathematical Physics by Charlie Harper

Reference Books for Mechanics and General Properties of Matter

An Introduction to Mechanics by Daniel Kleppner, Robert Kolenkow

Mechanics by D S Mathur

Mechanics by Keith R. Symon

Classical Mechanics & General Properties of Matter by S. N. Maiti

Mechanics & General Properties of Matter by Chakrabarti

Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole

Statistical Mechanics by Kerson Huang

Reference Books for Oscillations, Waves and Optics

Fundamentals of Waves & Oscillations by K. Uno Ingard

Problems in Optics: Waves and Oscillations by D R Brown

Vibrations and Waves by A. P. French

The Physics of Waves and Oscillations by N.K. Bajaj

Reference Books for Electricity and Magnetism

Electricity and Magnetism by D C Tayal

Electricity and Magnetism by J.H.Fewkes & John Yarwood

Understanding Physics Electricity & Magnetism for IIT JEE by Pandey

Physics for IIT-JEE: Electricity and Magnetism by B. M. Sharma

Electricity and Magnetism by Edward M. Purcell

Reference Books for Kinetic theory, Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory of Gases by D John

Kinetic Theory and Irreversible Thermodynamics by Byung Chan

Molecular Physics: Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics by S. K. Sinha, T. K. Dey

Statistical Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory by Charles E. Hecht

Thermodynamic Equilibrium By Lambert M Surhone , Miriam T Timpledon , Susan F

Marseken

Reference Books for Modern Physics

Optics & Modern Physics For IIT JEE by DC Pandey

Physics for IIT-JEE: Optics & Modern Physics by B. M. Sharma

Modern Physics by B L Theraja

Modern Physics by G Aruldhas, P Rajagopal

Reference Books for Solid State Physics, Devices and Electronics

Solid State Electronic Devices by Ben G Streetman, Sanjay Kumar Banerjee

Solid State Devices and Electronics by S. P. Singh, Kamal Singh

Solid State Electronic Devices by D. K. Bhattacharya, Rajnish Sharma

Aspirants need to prepare well with the help of these reference books to be successful in this
exam. A systematic study plan should be set up to prepare for this exam.

IIT DELHI STUDENTEdit#1: Recently I got to know, there is a coaching institute called Career Endeavour in Jia
Sarai, Delhi. Some noble soul made really beautiful notes which are available at a nearby
Chaudhary photostate shop. I've been told they are good enough to clear NET/JRF so I
assume they will be good enough for JAM too. You can buy that.

Edit#2: There are very nice books on each topic available by a single author Lim. But these
books are of Masters level, however they are really good compilation of Problems at a single
place. You may want to give it a try.
[1]Atomic and Nuclear Physics: http://iate.oac.uncor.edu/~manue...
[2]Mechanics:
http://kimphysics.pe.kr/solution...
[3]Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics:
http://paginas.fisica.uson.mx/la...
[4]Solid State Physics, Relativity :
http://www.fulviofrisone.com/att...

[5]Electromagnetism:
http://bayanbox.ir/view/54765108...
[6]Quantum Mechanics:
http://www.fulviofrisone.com/att...
[7]Optics:
I'm unable to find the pdf for the time being. Please help me updating this answer if you are
able to find the link.
The level of these books are actually way above than what you might need in IIT JAM,
however one should be proficient enough in some core topics like QM, ED and Classical
Mechanics and these books help you achieve the feat. On a brighter side, you are actually
preparing for NET/JRF through these books.

You should refer some standard books like following. The emphasis here is to do a lot of
problems. And the books in bold one should prefer for problem solving.
Quantum Mechanics - By Zetili / Griffith / Schaums Series
Solid State Physics - By Kittel / M A Omar / S O Pillai
Statistical Physics - By Reif
Mathematical Physics - By Riley, Hobson and Bence /Arfken Weber
Classical Mechanics - By Goldstein / J. R. Taylor / David Morin (J C Upadhyaya can be
referred to )
Thermodynamics - By Zeemansky / F. W. Sears and G. L. Salinger

Optics - By Ghatak / Brijlal and Subhramanyam

Electrodynamics - By Griffith
Semiconductor and Electronics - By Boylested /Gaekwad
Nuclear Physics - By Irwin / Devnathan
Molecular and Atomic Physics - By Rajkumar / White
You shouldn't try to finish whole syllabus. I think 60% hardcore preparation will be enough

BOOKS FOR THEORY BY AIR22

Resnick & Haliday
Feynman Lectures I, II, III
Griffiths (Quantum Mechanics)
Griffiths (Electromagnetism)
Kittel (Solid state physics)
Goldstein (Classical Mechanics)
Neeman (Solid state devices)
Ghatak (Optics)

AIR-3
IIT JAM tests the standard undergraduate physics curriculum. I don't think there is any one
book that can help you master the curriculum.
If you intend to do well on the exam, you must first focus on absorbing the standard
curriculum thoroughly using any books you like on the topics which are in a typical physics
undergraduate course and also in the IIT JAM syllabus.

Once that is swept aside, you can begin the exclusive exam preparation. I used Arihant's IIT
JAM Physics solved papers book that is published every year. It has 10 previous year
papers and 5 model test papers based on the latest exam pattern. Solve all the questions to
get a hang of the kind of questions asked.
That should be enough for a great performance in the exam. No need for any rote
memorization or burning the midnight oil.