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Physics Semester -1 Syllabus

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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Physics Semester -1 Syllabus

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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SEMESTER-I 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 Effect of 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.

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