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: Room NR411, 4A-students-list
Section 4B: Room NR112, 4B-students-list
Mid-Sem Syllabus has been modified!!!
Mid-Sem Exam: Exam on 21st September FN.
Syllabus: Mechanical oscillations and waves, vector calculus and Electrodynamics -Maxwell Equations (Part - 1 and Part 2 of the ``Content slides" below, except the last two topics on Maxwell equations and EM-waves.)
Class-Test-2: 6th November, 2025 ( 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm )
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 [Not in Mid-Sem Syllabus]
(iii) Electromagnetic waves: Lecture slides [Not in Mid-Sem Syllabus]
PART-3: Optics :
To appear
PART-4: Quantum Mechanics :
To appear.
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