GN1012: Preparatory Physics II
Syllabus
Module 1: Electrostatics
Lecture hours: 5 · Tutorial hours: 3 · Lab hours: 0
Coulomb's law, electric field and potential, Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field, Electric field lines, flux of electric field, Gauss's law and its application, Conductors, insulators and dielectrics: capacitance, Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics, Capacitors in series and parallel, energy stored in a capacitor .
Module 2: Electric current
Lecture hours: 3 · Tutorial hours: 1 · Lab hours: 0
Ohm's law, Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells, Kirchhoff's laws and simple applications, Heating effect of current .
Module 3: Magnetostatics
Lecture hours: 5 · Tutorial hours: 3 · Lab hours: 0
Biot-Savart's law and Ampere's law, Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field, Magnetic moment of a current loop, effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop, Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions .
Module 4: Electromagnetic induction
Lecture hours: 3 · Tutorial hours: 1 · Lab hours: 0
Faraday's law, Lenz's law, Self and mutual inductance, RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources .
Module 5: Electromagnetic Waves
Lecture hours: 2 · Tutorial hours: 0 · Lab hours: 0
Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics, Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses .
Module 6: Optics
Lecture hours: 5 · Tutorial hours: 3 · Lab hours: 0
Rectilinear propagation of light; reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, Total internal reflection, deviation and dispersion of light by a prism, Thin lenses, combinations of mirrors and thin lenses, magnification, Wave nature of light: Huygen's principle, interference limited to Young's double-slit experiment .
Module 7: Modern Physics
Lecture hours: 5 · Tutorial hours: 3 · Lab hours: 0
Atomic nucleus; alpha, beta and gamma radiations, Law of radioactive decay, decay constant, half-life and mean life, Binding energy and its calculation; fission and fusion processes, energy calculation in these processes, Photoelectric effect, Bohr's theory of hydrogen-like atoms, Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley's law, de Broglie wavelength of matter waves .
Study Materials
References
- NCERT Physics, Class XII, Part 1, NCERT, , ISBN: 978-8174506313
- NCERT Physics, Class XII, Part 2, NCERT, , ISBN: 978-8174506719
- Concepts of Physics (Part 2), H. C. Verma, , ISBN: 978-8177092325