SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics: Charge, Coulombs law, lines of force, electric field, E, flux, Gauss law, electric potential;
Potential energy;
Capacitors and capacitance, energy storage in electric field, parallel plate capacitor, dielectrics;
Electromotive force, resistance, resistivity, Ohms law, multiloop circuits, Kirchoffs laws, RC circuits;
Magnetic force on electric current, torque on current loop, Hall effect, Amperes laws, lines of magnetic field B, long solenoid, Biot-Savart law;
Faradays law of Induction, Lenzs law;
Mechanical waves, sound waves, wave equation, energy transmission, Doppler effect, resonance;
Huygens principle, laws of reflection and refraction, total internal reflection, spherical mirrors, thin lenses, simple optical instruments;
Polarising sheets, polarising by reflection, polarisation by scattering double refraction, Law of Malus;
Youngs experiment, phase change on reflection, Michelson interferometer, interference in thin films, single and double slit Fraunhofer diffraction, diffraction grating, crystal diffraction. |
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