Fundamental physical quantities and units; Concepts of motion, velocity and acceleration as vectors; Application of the kinematic equations to linear, parabolic and circular motion; Dynamics of a particle; Concepts of mass, force, impulse and momentum; Motion of a rigid body: simple ideas on moments of inertia; Mechanical properties of solids and liquids; Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM); Kinetics and dynamics of SHM; Energy in SHM; Application to spring problems and the pendulum; Natural and artificial damping; Classification of wave motion; Travelling waves, wave fronts and rays; Superposition of waves, and phase difference, equation of a progressive wave; Beats: the phenomenon of beats; Stationary (standing) waves: the formation and properties of stationary waves; The Doppler effect: derivation of expression for frequency change, the Doppler effect with light; Fluid statics: physical properties of fluids, buoyancy; Pascal’s and Archimedes’ principle; Fluid dynamics: basics concepts of ideal flow, applications of continuity equation, Bernoulli and momentum equations, concept of laminar and turbulent flow; Thermometry and calorimetry: temperature scales, heat capacity, measuring specific heat capacities, latent heat, cooling laws; Gases: the gas laws, concept of ideal gas and ideal gas equation, the kinetic theory of gases; Avogadro’s law, external work done by an expanding gas, first law of thermodynamics, isothermal processes, adiabatic processes, Van Der Waals’ equation of state; Heat transfer: thermal conduction, definition of thermal conductivity, thermal radiation, the concept of black body, convection; Stefan’s law.
