NPTEL : NOC:Mechanics, Heat Oscillations and Waves (Physics)

Co-ordinators : Prof. V. Balakrishnan


Lecture 1 - The Nature of Physical Laws

Lecture 2 - Fundamental Constants and Dimensional Analysis

Lecture 3 - Dimensional analysis and scaling

Lecture 4 - sketching Elementary Functions

Lecture 5 - The fundamental forces of nature

Lecture 6 - Scalars, Victors and All That

Lecture 7 - Plane Polar Coordinates

Lecture 8 - Vectors In a Plane, Scalars and Pseudoscalars

Lecture 9 - Kinematics In a Plane

Lecture 10 - Vectors in 3-Dimensional Space

Lecture 11 - Vectors in 3-Dimensional space (Continued...)

Lecture 12 - The Finite Rotation Formula, Polar Coordinates in 3-dimensions

Lecture 13 - Cylindrical and Spherical polar coordinates

Lecture 14 - Motion in a circle - Acceleration

Lecture 15 - Newtons laws of motion

Lecture 16 - Conservation Laws and Newtons Equations

Lecture 17 - Conservation of Angular Momentum

Lecture 18 - Two-Body Scattering

Lecture 19 - Two-Body Collision Kinematics

Lecture 20 - Conservative Forces - The Concept of a Potential

Lecture 21 - Central Potential and Central Force

Lecture 22 - The 2-Body Central Force Problem

Lecture 23 - Keplers Laws of Planetary Motion

Lecture 24 - Non-Inertial Forces (Pseudo-forces)

Lecture 25 - More on the Kepler problem; Satellite motion

Lecture 26 - Linear Elasticity of Solids

Lecture 27 - Simple Harmonic Motion

Lecture 28 - Some Physical Examples of Simple Harmonic Motion

Lecture 29 - More on Simple Harmonic Motion

Lecture 30 - Damped Simple Harmonic Motion

Lecture 31 - Wave Motion - Travelling and Standing Waves

Lecture 32 - Wave Motion - Wave Equation, General Solution

Lecture 33 - Fluid Dynamics - Hydrostatic Equilibrium

Lecture 34 - Fluid Dynamics - Equation of Continuity

Lecture 35 - Fluid Flow - Bernoullis Principle

Lecture 36 - Circulation and Vorticity

Lecture 37 - What is Thermodynamics?

Lecture 38 - The Classical Ideal Gas

Lecture 39 - The Laws of Thermodynamics

Lecture 40 - Specific Heat of an Ideal Gas

Lecture 41 - Van der Waals Equation

Lecture 42 - Phase Transitions

Lecture 43 - Summary