Refresher Course In B.Sc. Physics Vol I

It has been revised and brought up-to-date in accordance with the latest syllabi, to meet the needs of the students and teachers alike. The book is unique in the respect that it has adopted a new style in the form of ‘questions and answers’. For this purpose questions set in the latest B.Sc. examination of various prominent Indian Universities only during the last few years have been selected and arranged chapterwise to cover almost the entire syllabus. No attempt has been made to pick and choose the material to reduce the volume of the book.

The main features of the book are as follows:

1. This book has been prepared to enable the students to give a correct and to the point answer to questions set in the examination.

2. The answers have been arranged under various heads and subheads to facilitate the students to remember various steps.

1. MECHANICS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER

a. Vectors
b. Co-ordinate System
c. Conservation of Momentum and Energy
d. Moment of Inertia and Rigid Body Dynamics
e. Frames of Reference
f. Gravitation
g. Motion Under a Central Force
h. Rockets and Satellites
i. Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
j. Relativity
k. Elasticity
l. Surface Tension
m. Viscosity
n. Classical Mechanics (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulation) 

2. WAVES, VIBRATIONS AND E.M. THEORY

a. Simple Harmonic Motion
b. Damped Simple Harmonic Motion
c. Forced Oscillator and Resonance
d. Coupled Oscillators
e. Transverse Waves
f. Longitudinal Waves
g. Interference, Beats, Stationary Waves, Doppler Effect and Ultrasonics
h. Electromagnetic Waves
i. Fourier Analysis

3. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

a. Vector Calculus
b. Coulomb’s Law and Electric Field
c. Gauss’s Theorem and Its Applications
d. Electric Potential
e. Electric Fields in Dielectrics
f. Electric Current
g. Fields of Charges in Motion
h. The Magnetic Field
i. Magnetism in Matter
j. Electromagnetic Induction
k. Alternating Currents