Teaching

1) Introductory Physics II (Junior Level)

Course structure

Fluids I: Density and pressure, fluids at rest, Pascal's principle, Archimedes principle, ideal fluids in motion, equation of continuity, Bernoulis's equation, Excercises.

Thermodynamics I: Zeroth law, temperature scales, thermal expansion, heat and work, 1st law, kinetic theory of gases (Maxwell distribution and average quantities), specific heats, adiabatic and isothermal processes, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy and second law, Carnot engine, third law, Exercises.

Reference:

• Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, 9th Edition

2) Statistical Physics (Senior Level)

Course structure

Thermodynamics II: Thermodynamic potentials (Internal energy, Gibbs energy, Enthalpy, Helmholtz energy and Grand potential), thermodynamic processes, stability of equilibrium, state functions and exact differentials, entropy, phase transitions (first order and continuous), Calusias-Clapeyron equation, phase diagrams, coexistence curves, Ginzberg-Landau theory of phase transitions, critical coefficients, universality class, Exercises.

Stat Mech: Probabilities for small and large systems, probability distributions, mean values and fluctuations, distributions of states, degrees of freedom, density of states, occupants of the states, average values, distributions (Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac and blackbody), relativistic and non-relativistic quantum gases, partition function, study of diatomic gas using partition function, Exercises.

References:

• L.E Reichl, A modern course of statistical physics

• K. Stowe, An introductory course on statistical mechanics

1) Introductory Physics III (Junior Level)

Course structure

Electricity: Electric charge, Coulomb's law, conductors and insulators, electric field, dipole moment, field lines, Gauss' law, Flux, electric potential, capacitance, current and resistance, RC circuits, Exercises.

Magnetism: magnetic field, the Hall effect, cyclotrons and synchrotrons, magnetic force, troque, dipole moment, magnetic fields due to currents, Ampere's law, induction and inductance, Faraday's law, Lenz's law, self-induction, RL circuits, energy stored in magnetic fields, mutual induction, LC, RLC circuits, AC currents, Exercises.

Reference:

• Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, 9th Edition