• The syllabus can be found here. 

• The contact details of the teachers and tutors can be found here. 

• Here is a non-exhaustive list of suggested references. Beside these references students are also encouraged to read `` The Feynman Lectures on Physics" (Vols 1-3).

• Introductory slides: Section-4

• Book by R. S. Saraswat AND G. P. Sastry : ECOPY

• Lecture notes by Bharadwaj and Khastgir: ECOPY

For the tutorial classes each section will be broken up into two subsections. The rooms numers for the tutorials and the students list in each subsection is given below: 

Section 1A:  Room NR211, 1A-students-list 

Section 1B:  Room NR312, 1B-students-list

Section 2A:  Room NR211, 2A-students-list 

Section 2B:  Room NR212, 2B-students-list

Section 3A:  Room NR111, 3A-students-list 

Section 3B:  Room NR312, 3B-students-list

Section 4A+4B:  Room NR112, 4A-students-list, 4B-students-list 

[Henceforth, all tutorials of section 4 on thursdays will take place in Room NR112]

Class-Test-2:  6th November, 2025 ( 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm )

Syllabus for Class-test-2: Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic waves, reflection and refraction with EM waves, Interference, Diffraction. [These topics has been marked in blue in the "Content Slides" below. The topic of Polarization will NOT be tested in this class test.]

End-Sem Exam: Starts from 17th November, 2025

• PART -1: Mechanical oscillations and waves : 

(i) Simple harmonic motion: Lecture Slides  (also see another version of Lecture slides for section-3)

(ii) Damped Oscillations: Lecture Slides 

(iii) Forced Damped Oscillatoins:  Lecture Slides

(iv) Coupled Oscillations:  Lecture Slides 

(v) Introduction to waves: Lecture Slides -1,  Lecture Slides -2

•  PART-2: Electrodynamics and Electromagnetic-waves : 

 (i) A brief introduction to vector calculus: Lecture slides

(ii) Maxwell's Equations: Lecture slides  [Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

(iii) Electromagnetic waves: Lecture slides [Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

•  PART-3: Optics : 

      (i) Understanding reflection and refraction with EM waves: Lecture Slides [Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

      (ii) Interference: Lecture Slides [Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

      (iii) Diffraction: Lecture Slides [Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

       (v) Polarization: Lecture Slides [NOT Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

•  PART-4: Quantum Mechanics :  

(i) Introduction - Early experiments: Lecture Slides   [NOT Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

(ii) Probabilistic interpretation, Wavefunction, Schrodinger Equation,  `Particle in a box' problem: Lecture Slides  [NOT Included in Class-Test-2 Syllabus]

1.  Problem Set - 1 (Solutions) : Simple harmonic oscillations

2. Problem Set - 2 (Solutions) : Damped oscillations

3. Problem Set - 3 (Solutions) : Forced and Damped oscillations

4. Problem Set - 4 (Solutions) : Coupled Oscillation (+ more problems on forced damped oscillations)

5. Problem Set - 5 (Solutions) : Mechanical Waves (+ more problems on coupled oscillations)

6. Problem Set - 6 (Solutions) : More problems on Mechanical waves (+ two problems on vector calculus) 

7. Problem Set - 7 (Solutions) : Vector calculus, Maxwell's Equations, EM waves

8. Mid-sem QP (Solutions)

9. Problem Set - 8 (Solutions) : EM waves, reflection and refraction. 

10. Problem Set - 9 (Solutions) : Interference

11. Problem Set - 10 (Solutions) : Diffraction and Polarization