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Fluid Mechanics: Pressure and the variables on which pressure depends, Pressure measurement
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| 2 |
Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle.Dynamics of fluids, Bernoulli Equation
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| 3 |
Applications of fluid dynamics
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| 4 |
Vibration and Waves: Vibration motion
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| 5 |
Simple harmonic motion and energy in the mass-spring system
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| 6 |
Relationship between uniform circular motion and simple pendulum and other oscillating systems
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| 7 |
Damped vibrations, Forced vibrations. Wave Motion; Wave formation in a string and analysis of traveling waves, Transverse and longitudinal waves, Wave speed and the parameters it depends on, Reflection and transmission of waves, Sinusoidal waves and the energy they carry, Linear wave equation.
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Sound Waves; Formation of sound waves and pressure change in sound waves, Speed of sound waves, Intensity of periodic sound waves, Doppler Effect. Superposition and Standing Waves; Interference in waves, Standing waves, Waves under boundary conditions, Resonance, Pulses.
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| 9 |
Midterm Exam Week
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| 10 |
Thermodynamics: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics and Temperature; Temperature and thermal equilibrium (zeroth law), Temperature scales, Constant volume gas thermometer and absolute temperature scale, Thermal expansion of solids and liquids, Macroscopic analysis of an ideal gas.
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| 11 |
First Law of Thermodynamics; Heat and internal energy, Specific heat and calorimetry, Heat of change (latent heat), Work and heat in thermodynamic processes, Some applications of the first law, Energy transfer in thermodynamic processes. Kinetic Theory of Gases: Molecular model of an ideal gas, Molar specific heat of an ideal gas, Equipartition of energy, Adiabatic processes for an ideal gas, Molecular velocity distribution. Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat engines and the second law, Heat pu
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| 12 |
Electrostatics: Electric Fields; Properties of electric charges, Charges, Coulomb's Law, Electric field, Behavior of charged particles in an electric field, Electric fields of continuous charge distributions, Electric field lines, Motion of charged particles in a uniform electric field. Gauss's Law; Electric flux, Gauss's Law, Application of Gauss's Law to some charge distributions , Conductors in electrostatic balance.
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| 13 |
Electrical Potential and Potential Energy; Electric potential and potential difference, potential difference in a uniform electric field, Electric potential created by a point charge and potential energy of point charge systems, Electric potential created by continuous charge distributions, Electric potential created by charged conductors, applications of electrostatics.
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| 14 |
Capacitors; Definition and calculation of capacitance, Connection of capacitors, Electrostatic potential energy stored in a charged capacitor, Capacitors with insulators, Electric dipole in an electric field, Atomic analysis of insulators.
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