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Fluid Mechanics: Pressure and the variables on which pressure depends, Pressure measurement, Buoyancy and Archimedes' Principle, Dynamics of fluids, Beroulli Equation, Applications of fluid dynamics
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Vibration and Waves: Vibration movement; Simple harmonic motion (BHH) and energy in the mass-spring system, The relationship between uniform circular motion and BHH, Simple pendulum and other oscillatory systems, Damped vibrations, Forced vibrations.
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Vibration and Waves: 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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Vibration and Waves: Sound Waves; Formation of sound waves and pressure change in sound waves, Speed of sound waves, Intensity of periodic sound waves, Doppler Effect.
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Vibration and Waves: Superposition and Standing Waves; Interference in waves, Standing waves, Waves under boundary conditions, Resonance, Pulses.
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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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Thermodynamics: First Law of Thermodynamics; Heat and internal energy, Specific heat and calorimetry, Heat of change of phase (latent heat), Work and heat in thermodynamic processes, Some applications of the first law, Energy transfer in thermodynamic processes.
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Thermodynamics: 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
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Thermodynamics: Second Law of Thermodynamics: Heat engines and the second law, Heat pumps and coolers, Reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot Engine, Internal combustion engines, Change in Entropy in Thermodynamic systems, Entropy and the second law.
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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
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Electrostatics: Gauss' Law; Electric flux, Gauss's Law, Application of Gauss's Law to some charge distributions, Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium.
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Electrostatics: Electrical Potential and Potential Energy; Electric potential and potential difference, potential difference in a uniform electric field, electrical potential created by a point charge and potential energy of point charge systems, …
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Electrostatics: Electrical Potential and Potential Energy;…Electric potential created by continuous charge distributions, Electrical potential created by charged conductors, Applications of electrostatics
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Electrostatics: 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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