

Longitudinal and transverse waves, speed of a wave. kinetic and potential energies Simple pendulum - derivation of expression for its time period Free, forced, and damped oscillations, resonance. Simple harmonic motion (S.H.M.) and its equation phase oscillations of a spring -restoring force and force constant energy in S.H.M. Periodic motion - period, frequency, displacement as a function of time.
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Kinetic energy and temperature: rms speed of gas molecules Degrees of freedom, Law of equipartition of energy, applications to specific heat capacities of gases Mean free path, Avogadro's number. Kinetic theory of gases-assumptions, concept of pressure. Carnot engine and its efficiency.Įquation of state of a perfect gas, work done on compressing a gas. Second law of thermodynamics: reversible and irreversible processes. Thermal equilibrium, zeroth law of thermodynamics, concept of temperature. Heat transfer-conduction, convection and radiation, Newton's law of cooling. Heat, temperature, thermal expansion specific heat capacity, calorimetry change of state, latent heat. Surface energy and surface tension, angle of contact, application of surface tension - drops, bubbles and capillary rise.
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Bernoulli's principle and its applications. Viscosity, Stokes' law, terminal velocity, streamline and turbulent flow, Reynolds number. Pressure due to a fluid column Pascal's law and its applications. Geo-stationary satellites.Įlastic behaviour, Stress-strain relationship, Hooke's Law, Young's modulus, bulk modulus, modulus of rigidity. Gravitational potential energy gravitational potential. Acceleration due to gravity and its variation with altitude and depth, Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Rigid body rotation, equations of rotational motion. Values of moments of inertia for simple geometrical objects, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems and their applications.
