A physics course for first year undergraduates.
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]
End-Sem Exam: THURSDAY 20-11-2025 09:00 AM-12:00 PM
Syllabus for End-Sem Exam: Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic waves, reflection and refraction with EM waves, Interference, Diffraction, Polarization, Quantum Mechanics. [These topics has been marked in blue in the "Content Slides" below. ]
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 End-Sem Syllabus]
(iii) Electromagnetic waves: Lecture slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
PART-3: Optics :
(i) Understanding reflection and refraction with EM waves: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
(ii) Interference: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
(iii) Diffraction: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
(v) Polarization: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
PART-4: Quantum Mechanics :
(i) Introduction - Early experiments: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
(ii) Probabilistic interpretation, Wavefunction, Schrodinger Equation, Operators: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
(ii) 1D potentials - `Particle in a box' problem: Lecture Slides [Included in End-Sem Syllabus]
Problem Set - 1 (Solutions) : Simple harmonic oscillations
Problem Set - 2 (Solutions) : Damped oscillations
Problem Set - 3 (Solutions) : Forced and Damped oscillations
Problem Set - 4 (Solutions) : Coupled Oscillation (+ more problems on forced damped oscillations)
Problem Set - 5 (Solutions) : Mechanical Waves (+ more problems on coupled oscillations)
Problem Set - 6 (Solutions) : More problems on Mechanical waves (+ two problems on vector calculus)
Problem Set - 7 (Solutions) : Vector calculus, Maxwell's Equations, EM waves
Problem Set - 8 (Solutions) : EM waves, reflection and refraction.
Problem Set - 9 (Solutions) : Interference
Problem Set - 10 (Solutions) : Diffraction and Polarization
Problem Set - 11 (Solutions) : Quantum Mechanics