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Simple Explanations: Mechanics

This document provides an overview of topics covered in mechanics, fluid mechanics, waves and oscillations, heat and thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, electronics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Key areas in mechanics include vectors, Newton's laws of motion, conservation laws, and relativity. Fluid mechanics covers surface tension, viscosity, and Bernoulli's theorem. Waves and oscillations discusses free, forced, and damped oscillations, as well as traveling and standing waves. Heat and thermodynamics outlines the three laws of thermodynamics and applications. Electricity and magnetism presents Gauss' law, electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell's equations, and circuits. Electronics summarizes diodes, transistors, and basic circuits. Atomic physics covers

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Simple Explanations: Mechanics

This document provides an overview of topics covered in mechanics, fluid mechanics, waves and oscillations, heat and thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, electronics, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Key areas in mechanics include vectors, Newton's laws of motion, conservation laws, and relativity. Fluid mechanics covers surface tension, viscosity, and Bernoulli's theorem. Waves and oscillations discusses free, forced, and damped oscillations, as well as traveling and standing waves. Heat and thermodynamics outlines the three laws of thermodynamics and applications. Electricity and magnetism presents Gauss' law, electric and magnetic fields, Maxwell's equations, and circuits. Electronics summarizes diodes, transistors, and basic circuits. Atomic physics covers

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Mechanics

Simple
explanations

Vectors - Dots, Cross and triple products, Gradient, divergence and applications.

Newtonian laws of motion; conservation law of energy; conservation of linear and


angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid body; spin and pie-cession; gyroscope;
Gravitation; planetary motion including satellite.

Special theory of relativity. Mischelson - Morely experiment and Einstein's


postulates; Lorentz transformation; time dilation and length con traction;
equivalence of mass and energy.

Fluid Mechanics

Surface tension; Viscosity; Elasticity; fluid motion and Bernoullie's theorem.

Waves and Oscillation

Free oscillation with one and two degrees of freedom; forced and damped oscillations
and phenomenon of resonance. Travelling waves and transmission of energy; Phase
and Group velocity; standing waves.

Reflection, Refraction, Interference, Diffraction and Polarization of waves; interferometer and Newton's rings; Diffraction Gratings and their resolving power; spectrometers. Electromagnetic wave equation: normal and anamolous dispersion;
coherence, laser and its application.

Heat and Thermodynamics

Perfect gas and Van der Waals equation; Three Laws of Thermodynamics, 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
application: Quantum Bose - Einstein and Fermi-Dirac Statistics.

PAPER - II (Marks-100)

Electricity and Magnetism

Electric field due to point charges, Gauss' law Electric potential and poisson and
Laplace's equation Dielectric medium and Polarization:

Capacitance; Moving charges and magnetic field Ampere's law; Vector potential;

Magnetic properties of matter; Transient current: Faraday's law of electromagnetic


induction; Alternating current and LRO circuit. Maxwell's equations; Poynting
theorem and Poynting Vector.
Electronics

Thermionic emission; Space charge: Diode. Triode Tetrode; Pentode and their static
and dynamic characteristics; Amplitude modulation and demodulation or detection.
Various basic circuits for rectification, amplification modulation and detection
connected with radio receivers and transmission; n and p type semiconductors;
Biased function; Transistors; Common base and common emitter configurations.

Atomic Physics

Bohr theory and quantum numbers including electron spin; Pauli's exclusion
principle; Spectra of simple systems with one or two valence electrons. Photo electric
effect Compton scattering; pair production; Lande's g factor and Zeeman effect.
Rainan effect; Waves and particles and De Broglie's Hypothesis; Shrodinger wave
equation and its application to one dimensional harmic oscillator. Heisen berg's
uncertainly principle.

Nuclear Physics

Structure of Nuclei; Radioactivity infinity, beta and decay. Methods of detection,


Mass Sepectrometer. Accelerators. Phenomenon of fission; reactor and nuclear
power, nuclear fusion and its application. Elementary particles and their properties.
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Suggested Readings

Title

Author

Prospectives of Modern Physics

A. Beiser

Fundamentals of Physics

Halliday & Resnick

Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

D. Corson & P. Lorrain

Engineering Electronics

J.D. Ryder

Semiconductor Electronics

J.F. Gibbons

Physics Course

Barkeley

Heat and Thermodynamics

W. Zemanasky

Nuclear Physics

W.E. Burcham

Nuclear Physics

Kaplan

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