Syllabus
Mechanics:
Introduction to vectors: linear independence – completeness – basis – dimensionality– inner product – orthogonality – displacement – derivatives of a vector – velocity– acceleration – plane polar coordinates.
Electricity and Magnetism:
Electricity: Electrostatic potential and field due to discrete and continuous charge distributions, energy density in an electric field.
Magnetism:
Currents, Biot-Savert law, magnetic induction due to configurations of currentcarrying conductors – energy density in a magnetic field, force on a charged particle in electric and magnetic fields, electromotive force, Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction – self and mutual inductance, displacement current.
Modern Physics:
relativity– introduction to quantum physics –atom model hydrogen atom. Photoelectric effect - blackbody radiation - wave matter duality - uncertainty principle - Compton scattering
Optics: nature of light – ray approximation in geometrical optics – reflection – refraction,
Fermat’s principle – dispersion – mirrors and lenses – aberrations – interference – diffraction
–polarization –lasers.
Text Books
- Kleppner, D. and Kolenkow, R. J., An Introduction to Mechanics, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press (2013).
- Griffith, D. J., Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall (1999).
- Fundamentals of Physics, David Halliday, Jearl Walker, and Robert Resnick, Wiley, 2010.
- Concepts of Modern Physics, Arthur Beiser, McGraw-Hill, 2009