SYLLABUS FOR THE SUBJECT OF PHYSICS
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Mechanics
Vectors -Dots, Cross and triple products, Gradient, divergence and applications. Curl of a vector field; Gauss’s Theorem; Stokes theorem
Newtonian laws of motion; motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields; Motion in a circle, Law of conservation of energy; Conservation of linear and angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid body; spin and precession; gyroscope; Gravitation; planetary motion including satellite work energy theorem.
Special theory of relativity. Mischelson – Morley experiment, Einstein’s postulates; Lorentz transformation; time dilation, length contraction; equivalence of mass and energy.
Fluid Mechanics
Surface tension; Viscosity; elasticity; fluid motion and Bernoulli’s theorem.
Waves and Oscillation
Free oscillation with one and two degrees of freedom; free and forced oscillations, Lissagous figure, Coupled oscillations, Travelling waves and transmission of energy; Phase and Group velocity; Standing waves Longitudinal waves.
Reflection, Refraction, Interference, Diffraction and Polarization of waves; interfero meter and Newton’s rings; Diffraction Gratings and their resolving power; Spectrometers. Electromagnetic wave equation; Normal and anamolous dispersion;
Coherence, lasers and its application.
Heat and Thermodynamics
Perfect gas and Vander Waals equation; Three Laws of Thermodynamics; Entropy, entropy of an ideal gas; Helmbroltz function, Gibbs function; Maxwell’s equations; Enthalpy, Thermal properties of Simple system; Production and measurement of low temperatures; Kinetic theory of gases; Maxwellian distribution of molecular velocities; Brownian motion; Transport phenomena. Classical Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics and its applications, Quantum Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics.
