This course aims to teach students key concepts in the properties of matter, central force motion, oscillations, and the special theory of relativity. Learning outcomes include understanding physical body behavior, planetary motion dynamics, and developing analytical thinking in mechanics. The course content covers topics such as Hooke's law, Kepler's laws, simple harmonic motion, and the principles of relativity.
This course aims to teach students key concepts in the properties of matter, central force motion, oscillations, and the special theory of relativity. Learning outcomes include understanding physical body behavior, planetary motion dynamics, and developing analytical thinking in mechanics. The course content covers topics such as Hooke's law, Kepler's laws, simple harmonic motion, and the principles of relativity.
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Course Objectives:
This course alms to enable the students to
acquire the key concepts of the general
properties of matter, the motion of a
particle under central force field,
oscillations and special theory of relativity.
Learning Outcomes :
e Learn about the behaviour of physical
bodies arounds us in daily life.
¢ Understand the dynamics of planetary
motion.
¢ Build a foundation of various applled
field in science and technology.
¢ Develop the analytical thinking on
Mechanics in order to understand the
response of the classical systems to
external forces.Course Content:
e General Properties of Matter (20
Lectures): Hooke's law. Stress-strain
diagram, Elastic moduli, poisson"s
Ratio-expression for poisson's ratio in
terms of elastic constants. Relation
between Elastic constants. Work done
in stretching and work done in twisting
wire-Twisting couple on a cylinder .
Bending moment. Cantilevers. beam
supported at the end and loaded at
moddle and its application to
determine Young "s modulus . Searke
"s experiments .Kinematics of moving
Fluids: viscous fluid ,poiseuolle"s
Equation for Flow of a Liquid through a
Capillary Tube with correction, Flow of
compressoble fluid throrgh a
capillarytube . Rankine"s methods for
measurement of viscosity of gas Effectof temperature and pressure on
viscosity. Surface tension and surface
energy . Angle of contact . Expression
for excess pressure. Principal of virtual
work, Ripples and Graavity waves.
Effect of temperature and pressure on
surface tension and surface energy.
Angle of contact. Expression for
excess pressure. Principal of virtual
work , Ripples and Gravity waves.
Effect of temperature and pressure on
surface tension.
Central Force Motion (10 Lectures ):
Motion of a particle under a central
force field . Two bodies problem .
Conservation of angular momentum.
Kepler's Laws of pInnetary motion and
their derivations . Satellite in circlar
orbit and applications. Weight
lessness.¢ Oscillations(15 Lectures): Simple
Harmonic Oscillations (SHM).
Differenrial equation of SHM and its
solution . Kinetic energy , potential
energy .total energy and their time
-average values , EXamples of
physical systems Executing SHM:
Simple pendulum, Compound
pendulum, Torsional pendulum, LC-
Circuit. Damped oscillstion. Forced
oscillations: Translent and steady
states ; Resonance ,sharpness of
resonance, power dissiparion and
Quality Factor.
¢ Special Theory of Relativity (15
Lectures ): Inertial and Non-inertial
frames. centrifugal force and coriolos
force and its applications. Michelson-
Morley Experiment and its outcome.postulates of special Theory of
Relativity. Lorentz Transformations.
Lorentz contraction. Time dilation
simultancity and order of events.
Relstivistoc addition of velocities.
Variation of mass with velocity.
Massless Particles. Mass-energy
Equivalence. Relativistic Doppler
effect.
Reference Books:
1. An introduction to mechanics,
D.Kleppner .R.J. Kolenlow . 1973. Mc
Graw -Hill.
2. Mechanics, D. S. Mathur.