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Electricity and Magnetism: Electric Current and Resistance; Formation of electric current and resistance, Microscopic model of conductivity, Resistance and temperature, Superconductivity, Electrical power.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Direct Current Circuits; Electromotive force (emf), Series and parallel connections of resistors, Kichhoff's Rules, RC circuits.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Magnetic Field; Behavior of a charged particle in a magnetic field, Motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field, Lorentz Force and its applications, Magnetic force acting on a conductor through which current flows, Torque acting on a current frame in a uniform magnetic field, Hall Effect.
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Electricity and Magnetism: . Magnetic Field Sources; Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic force acting on two parallel conductors with current flowing through them, Ampere's Law, Magnetic field of a solenoid, Gauss' Law in Magnetism, Magnetic properties of materials.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Faraday's Law; Faraday's law of induction, Motional emf, Lenz's Law, Induced emf and Electric fields, Electric motors and generators, Eddy Currents.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Inductance; Self induction and inductance, RL circuit, Energy stored in a magnetic field, Mutual inductance, Vibrations in an LC circuit, RLC circuit.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Alternating Current Circuits; Alternating current (AC) sources, Ohmic resistors in an AC circuit, Inductor in an AC circuit, Capacitor in an AC circuit, Series RLC circuit, Power in an AC circuit, Resonance in a series RLC circuit, Transformers and power transfer, Rectifiers and Filters.
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Electricity and Magnetism: Electromagnetic Waves; Displacement current and the general form of Ampere's Law, Maxwell's Equations and Hertz's discovery, Plane electromagnetic waves,…
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Electricity and Magnetism: Electromagnetic Waves; …Energy carried by electromagnetic waves, Momentum and radiation pressure, Electromagnetic wave generation in an antenna, Electromagnetic wave spectrum.
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Light Information and Optics: Nature of Light and Principles of Beam Optics; Nature of light, Measurement of the speed of light, Ray approximation in beam optics, Reflection in the wave model, Refraction in the wave model,
Huygens Principle, Total reflection.
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Light Information and Optics: Image Formation; Image in plane mirrors, Image in spherical mirrors, Image formation by refraction, Image formation in lenses, Lens defects, Camera, Eye, Simple magnifying glass, Compound microscope, Telescope.
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Light Information and Optics: Wave Optics; Young's Experiment (double slit experiment), Interference analysis in wave model, Intensity distribution in double slit interference pattern, Phase change in reflection, interference in thin film, Michelson interferometer.
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Light Information and Optics: Diffraction Pattern and Polarization; Diffraction pattern formation, Diffraction pattern in single slit, Resolution of single slit and circular apertures, …
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Light Information and Optics: Diffraction Pattern and Polarization; …Diffraction grating, Diffraction of X-Rays by crystals, Polarization of light waves.
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