Lecture Notes [check for updates after every class]
These Lecture Notes are not corrected for possible errors. They are meant only to guide you through the topics covered in the class, and are not a substitute for text books!
Tutorial Time Table:
Tuesday: 8:00 - 8:55 (For All Students)
Syllabus
Classical Mechanics: Review
of Newtonian Mechanics in rectilinear coordinate system. Motion in
plane polar coordinates. Conservation principles. Collision problem in
laboratory and centre of mass frame. Rotation about fixed axis.
Non-inertial frames and pseudo forces. Rigid body dynamics.
Special Theory of Relativity:
Postulates of STR. Galilean transformation. Lorentz transformation.
Simultaneity. Length Contraction. Time dilation. Relativistic addition
of velocities. Energy-momentum relationships. Quantum Mechanics:
Two-slit experiment. De Broglie's hypothesis. Uncertainty Principle,
wave function and wave packets, phase and group velocities.
Schrödinger Equation. Probabilities and Normalization. Expectation
values. Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Applications in one dimension:
Particle in a box, Finite Potential well, Harmonic oscillator.
Texts: 1. D. Kleppner and R. J. Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2000.
2. R. Eisberg and R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles, 2nd Ed., John-Wiley, 1985.
References:
1. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.I, Norosa Publishing House, 1998.
2. J.M. Knudsen and P.G. Hjorth, Elements of Newtonian Mechanics,
Springer, 1995. 3. R. Resnick, Introduction to Special Relativity, John
Wiley, Singapore, 2000.
4. A. Beiser, Concepts of Modern Physics, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 1995.
5. S. Gasiorowicz, Quantum Physics, John Wiley (Asia), 2000.
