Physics
Total Marks – 200
Paper I
Marks – 100
Mechanics
1. Vectors – dots, cross and triple products. Gradient divergence and applications
2. Newtonian laws of motion, conservation law of energy, conservation of linear and angular momentum, dynamics of rigid body, spin and precession, gyroscope, gravitation, planetary motion including satellite
3. Special theory of relativity: Michelson – Morley experiment and Einstein’s postulates, Lorentz transformation, time dilation and length contraction, equivalence of mass and energy
Fluid mechanics
Surface tension, Viscosity, Elasticity, fluid motion and Bernoulli’s theorem
Waves & Oscillation
Free Oscillation with one and two degrees of freedom, forced and dampened oscillations and phenomenon of resonance. Traveling waves and transmission of energy, phase and group velocity, standing waves
Reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction and polarization of waves, interferon-meter and Newton’s rings, diffraction gratings and their resolving power, spectrometers, electromagnetic wave equation, normal and anomalous 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 temperature. Kinetic theory of gases, Maxwellian distribution of molecular velocities, Brownian motion, transport phenomenon, classical Maxwell Boltzmann statistics and its application, Quantum Bose – Einstein and Fermi – Direct statistics