Laboratoty Assistant cum Storekeeper Physics Syllabus

Syllabus in Physics: 2020

• Gravitational field and potential due to solid sphere and spherical shell.
• Compound pendulum.
• Kater’s pendulum.
• Central force motion reduction of two body central force motion into equivalent one body motion.
• General features of central force motion.
• Differential equation of orbit.
• Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
• Virial thereon.

• Elastic constants for homogeneous isotopic solid their inter relation.
• Torsion of a cylinder.
• Bending of beams cantilever.
• Beam supported at both ends and loaded at the middle.
• Kinematics of moving ideal fluid.
• Equation of continuity.
• Euler’s equation for ideal fluid.
• Bernoulli’s theorem.
• Viscous fluids.
• Laminar flow through narrow tube.
• Poiseulle’s formula.
• Scale’s viscometer.
• Surface tension and surface energy.
• Pressure difference across a curves liquid surface.
• Gravity waves and ripples.

Thermal and Statistical Physics:

• Thermodynamic system.
• Thermodynamic equilibrium.
• Zeroth law of thermodynamics.
• Thermodynamic process.
• Work done in isothermal and isobaric process.
• internal energy.
• First law of thermodynamics.
• Application to various process.
• Cp-Cv
• equation of state for adiabatic process.
• Work done in adiabatic process.
• Polytropic process.
• Heat engine.
• Carnot cycle.
• Carnot engine.
• Carnot theorem.
• Second law of thermodynamics.
• Entropy as a thermodynamics variables.
• Entropy
• Helmholtz free energy and Gibbs function.
• Maxwell’s thermodynamic equation.
• Joule-thomson effect.
• First order phase transition.
• Clausious-Clapeyron equation.

Practical: A

1. Acceleration due to gravity by bar pendulum and study of the effect of amplitude on time period.
2. Young’s modulus of a wire by Searlis method.
3. Viscosity of water using capillary tube flow method.
4. Specific heat of liquid by method of cooling.
5. Wave length of unknown lighht by drawing calibration curve of prism spectrometer.

• Simple harmonic motion
• Damped harmonic motion
• Power loss
• Q-Factor
• Under damped
• Over damped and critically damped motion
• Force vibration resonance
• Sharpness of resonance
• Composition of SHM
• Lissajous figure for super position of two orthogonal simple harmonic vibrations (a) With same frequency (b) Frequency in the ratio 2:1
• Theory of plucked
• Struck and bowed strings
• Production and properties of ultrasonic waves

Electricity, Magnetism and Electromagnetic Theory:

• Coulomb’s law
• Electric field
• Field at point due to (a) Electric dipole (b) Discrete distribution of charge (c) Continuous distribution of charge
• Flux electric field
• Gauss law of electrostatic
• Field due to linear, spherical and plane charge distribution
• Curl of electrostatic field

• Electrostatic potentials
• Relation between field and potentials
• Potential due to localized charge distribution
• Electrostatic boundary conditions
• Work done in moving a charge
• Energy of (a) discrete and (b) continuous charge distribution
• Basic properties of conductors
• Differential form of Gauss law
• Laplace’s equation
• Poisson’s equation
• Solutions of Laplace’s equation in spherical polar co-ordinates
• Conducting sphere in a uniform electric field.
• Dielectric polarization
• Field inside a dielectric
• Gauss law in a dielectric medium
• Linear dielectric
• Susceptibility
• Permitivity
• Dielectric constant
• Boundary conditions on the displacement vector D.
• Dielectric sphere in an external uniform electric field.
• Force on a point charge endowed in a dielectric.
• Molecular field in dielectric.
• Claus-in’s Mossotti relation.
• Energy in a dielectric medium
• Electric current
• Current density
• Equation of continuity.
• Ohm’s law
• Electromotive force
• Steady current in media without source of E. M. F.
• Magnetic induction (B)
• Lorentz force law
• Force on a straight current carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field.
• Torque on a current loop.
• The law of Biot and Savart
• Magnetic induction due to straight, circular and solenoid currents.
• Amper’s circular law, its differential form.
• Magnetic vi(e)ctor potential.
• Magnetic field due to a distant circuit.
• Magnetic scalar potential
• Torque on a current loop placed in external uniform magnetic field.
• Moving coil galvanometer
• Balastic galvanometer
• Magnetic properties of matter
• Magnetization
• Field of magnetized objects
• Ampere’s law in magnetized medium
• Magnetic intensity
• Magnetic susceptibility and permeabiliity
• Hysteresis
• Boundary condition on H and D
• Langevin theory
• Dimagnetism and para magnetism
• Weiss theory of ferro magnetism

• Motional E. M. F. and flux rule
• Faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction in differential and integral form.
• induced electric field due to an infinite long wire carrying a slowly varying current.
• Self inductance
• Mutual inductance
• Self inductance of solenoid and of a straight conductor
• Energy stored in an inductor in an electro magnetic field.
• Transient current growth and decay of current in series RC, LC and LCR circuit.
• Alternating currents sinusoidal voltage applied to series RC, LR, LC and LCR circuit.
• Power in AC
• Series and parallel resonant circuit
• Sharpness of resonance
• Q-Factor
• Displacement current and its physical significance
• Maxwell’s electro magnetic equations in free space and in medium.
• Boundary conditions
• Solar potential and Vector potential
• Gauge transformation
• Coulomb gauge and Lorentz gauge
• Electro magnetic waves
• Pointing theorem
• Energy and momentum of electro magnetic wave
• Electro magnetic waves in non-conducting-media
• Propagation of waves in vaccum and linear media
• Reflection and transmission at a conducting surface (Normal incidence)

Practical: B

1. Rigidity modulus of a wire by static method
2. Rigidity modulus of a wire by dynamic method
3. Surface tension of soap solution
4. Coefficient of viscosity by stoke’s method
5. Wave length of light by Newton’s ring
6. Comparison two nearly equal resistances by carey-foster.
7. Comparison of E. M. F. using stretched wire potentiometer (Pointer galvanometer)

Geometric Optics, Physical Optics, Laser:

• Ferranat’s principle
• Reflection and refraction at plane interface
• Matrix formulation of geometrical optics
• Cardinal points of coaxial system
• Cardinal points of combination of two thin lenses and a thick lens.
• Monochromatic aberration-spenerical aberration and its minimization
• Elementary ideas about coma
• Astigmatism
• Curvature
• Distortion and their remedies
• Chromatic aberration
• Achromatic combination
• Removal of chromatic aberration in a separated double Ramsden’s and Hygiene’s eye-piece
• Dispersion
• Theory of formation of primary and secondary rainbow

To be continue….