The Notification has been passed for Joint Entrance Screening Test (JEST) an entrance for admission to a Ph.D. or Integrated Ph.D. program in physics or theoretical in various other subjects which shall be carried on February 16, 2020. The one-year score of the JEST exam shall be taken into consideration.

Important Dates:

 Exam pattern:

These are the main area of exams-

• Analytical Reasoning and its Deduction,
• Combinatorics,
• Data Structures and its Algorithms,
• Discrete math’s,
• Graph and its theory
• Principles of various Programming.

The official website to get more details on the JEST 2020 examination is https://www.jest.org.in/joint-entrance-screening-test .

The physics syllabus is as follows-

Mathematical Methods:

The chapters include-

• Vector Algebra and Vector Calculus,
• Tensors,
• Curvilinear Coordinate Systems,
• Linear Algebra;
• Linear Differential Equations,
• Elements of Sturm-Liouville Theory;
• Special Functions;

Classical Mechanics:

The chapters include-

• Newton’s Rules,
• Conservation of Energy and Momentum,
• Collisions;
• Generalized Coordinates,
• The Principle of Least Action,
• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations of Mechanics;
• Symmetry and Conservation Laws;
• Nuclear Force Problem,
• Kepler Problem;
• Small Oscillations and Normal Modes;

Electromagnetism & Optics:

The chapters include-

• Electrostatics and Magnetostatics,
• Boundary value and related Problems,
• Multipole and Expansion;
• Fields in Conducting,
• Diamagnetic and Paramagnetic Media;
• Faraday’s law and time
• Displacement Current;
• Maxwell’s and Equations;
• Energy and Momentum and its Electromagnetic Fields;
• Propagation of Plane and Electromagnetic waves,

Quantum Mechanics:

The chapters include-

• Uncertainty Principle;
• Schrodinger Equation;
• Cepotentials,
• Hydrogen Atom;
• Orbital and Spin Angular Momenta,
• The Addition of Angular Momenta;
• Matrix Formulation of Quantum Theory,
• Unitary Transformations,

Electronics:

The chapters include-

• Basics of semiconductor;
• P-n junctions,
• Diodes,
• Transistors;
• TCR Circuits,
• Amplifiers

Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics:

The chapters include-

• Laws of Thermodynamics,
• Work and Heat,
• Thermodynamic Potentials;
• Elements of Kinetic Theory;
• Maxwell’s Relations;
• Statistical Ensembles;
• Classical Ideal Gas,

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Also read, JEST 2020 Application Process.