GATE Physics (PH)

Your paper has no Engineering Mathematics section. Its mathematics is Section 2, Mathematical Physics, one of eleven physics sections, and it is asked the way physics uses it. Linear vector spaces and basis are in the Vector Spaces chapter (its rank–nullity section; its decompositions and quadratic forms go beyond your list); eigenvalues, eigenvectors and diagonalisation are in the Linear Algebra chapter. Your linear differential equations are the first-order linear form in the borrowed first-order chapter and the second-order equations in the Differential Equations chapter — its Laplace and PDE sections are beyond your list. Complex analysis — Cauchy–Riemann, Cauchy’s theorem, residues — is the Complex Variables chapter; Fourier analysis starts in the first two sections of the Transforms chapter, and you can skip its z-transform. Two chapters are written for this paper alone, because no shared chapter teaches what they do: inner products, orthogonality, Gram–Schmidt and completeness, similarity transformations with Hermitian and unitary matrices, and tensors; and the classification of singularities, real integrals by contour integration, Parseval’s theorem, the Fourier transform of a Gaussian and the Dirac delta. Vector calculus is not named in Section 2, but the electromagnetic-theory chapter uses it throughout, and the Vector Calculus chapter is there if you need it. All ten discipline sections — Measurements and Error Analysis through Electronics — have chapters of their own.

Paper pattern

65 questions
100 marks
180 minutes
Yes negative marking

Mathematics, as this paper sets it

Physics — discipline chapters

Frequently asked questions

Is this GATE Physics material free?

Yes. Every chapter is free to read in English and Hindi. A free account adds scored practice, the full-length PH mock test in the real 65-question pattern, and the AI mentor.

How much of the GATE PH syllabus is covered?

The whole paper: 8 mathematics chapters as this paper's syllabus words them, and 12 chapters across all 10 discipline sections. General Aptitude is shared by every paper.

What is the GATE exam pattern?

65 questions for 100 marks in 180 minutes: General Aptitude for 15 marks and the paper for 85. A wrong MCQ costs a third of its marks; MSQ and NAT questions carry no negative marking.

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