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PH11001
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Contact details of Physics-I Teachers

for Spring Semester, 2015
1. Krishna Kumar*
(Sec 1, 2 & 3)
Department of Physics
(Room No. C- 239)
Phone: 83828 (Office); 83829 (Residence); E-mail: kumar@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in
2. B. K. Mathur
(Sec 4 &5)
Information Cell
(Room No. F-124)
Phone: 82185 (Office); 83827 (Residence); E-mail: mathur@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in
3. Sonjoy Majumder
(Sec 6 &7)
Department of Physics
(Room No. C- 220)
Phone: 83808 (Office); 83809 (Residence); E-mail: sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in
* Course-Coordinator

Venue and time for Physics-I classes

1. Sec 1, 2 & 3: V 1 (Vikramshila)
Monday: 1:30-2:30 pm, Tuesday: 3:30-5:30 pm
2. Sec 4 & 5: F 116 (Bhatnagar Auditorium)
Monday: 9:30-10:30 am, Wednesday: 7:30-9:30 am
3. Sec 6 & 7: F 142 (Raman Auditorium)
Monday: 10:30-11:30 am, Tuesday: 7:30-9:30 am
Three theory classes plus one tutorial class per week
Please see the Notice Board in Physics Department for the first year students
for details of tutorial groups, venue and time. Also look at:
www.webteam.iitkgp.ernet.in/physics1 , webteam.iitkgp.ernet.in/physics1 ,
http://144.16.192.111/physics1

Marks Breakup for Physics-I

Mid Semester Exam : 30
End Semester Exam : 50
Tutorials & Class Tests: 20
Attendance in the classes are compulsory.

Main Topics for Physics-I

1.
2.
3.
4.

Oscillations
(6 lectures)
Waves Motion
(6 lectures)
Electromagnetic Waves (5 lectures)
Optics
(14 lectures)
(Interference, Diffraction, Polarization)
5. Quantum Mechanics
(6 lectures)

References & Text Books

1.

Lecture Notes & Problems Bank for Physics

by R.S. Saraswat and G.P. Sastry

2.

The Physics of Vibrations and Waves

by H.J. Pain ( Wiley)

3.

Optics

4.

Fundamentals of Optics
by F.A. Jenkins and H.E. White ( McGraw Hill)

Lectures:

by Eugene Hecht (Pearson)

www.webteam.iitkgp.ernet.in/physics1 ,
webteam.iitkgp.ernet.in/physics1 , http://144.16.192.111/physics1

Spring Semester- 2015

Mid-Sem Exam: 16-24 February
End-Semester Exam: 20-28 April
Total no. of classes: 37 hrs

No. of classes before Mid-Sem: 16 hrs

No. of classes after Mid-Sem: 21 hrs

Notations

Oscillations

Uniform circular motion

Instantaneous position:

A spring-mass system
Force balance:

Simple pendulum
For
(in deg)
sin
(in rad)
4
0.0697564 0.0698131
5
6

0.0871557 0.0872664
0.1045284 0.1047197

Physical pendulum
d

Torque balance:
Moment of Inertia: I

Torsional pendulum
Schematic diagram

Torque balance
M.I. :

LC circuit
KVL: