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# Mechanics:
Kinematics
Graphical representations of displacement-time, velocity-time and acceleration time.
Motion in two and three dimensions-projectile motion.
Application of Newton’s laws of motion, Free body diagrams, Analysis of frames of trusses, Friction, Equilibrium forces.
Work-kinetic energy theorem. Power, Conservative forces. Conservation of energy.
Conservation of linear momentum for a system of particles. Center-of-mass motion.
Elastic and inelastic collision in one dimension.
Rotational kinematics. Angular momentum of a single particle. Conservation of angular momentum. Moment of Inertia, Balancing of rotating masses.
Gravitation: Gravitational field. Kepler’s laws.
Robotics: Introduction to robotics, essential components of a robot & their kinematics, links, frames, spatial motions, programming robots,
clocks, sensors, actuators and control.
# Waves & Oscillations:
Oscillations:
Simple Harmonic motion, damped simple harmonic oscillation, forced oscillations, Combination and Composition of simple harmonic motions, Lissajous figures, Transverse and Longitudinal nature of waves, traveling and standing waves, intensity of waves, energy calculation of progressive & stationary waves, Phase velocity, group velocity.
# Sound waves:
Velocity of Longitudinal wave in a gaseous medium, Doppler effect.
# Thermodynamics:
Zeroth, 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics.
Reversible and irreversible processes, Carnot cycle, Auto cycle, Diesel cycle and their efficiency.
Clausius theorem. Entropy. Absolute scale of temperature. Clausius Clapeyron equation. Thermodynamic functions.
Maxwell’s thermodynamic relations. Problem involving thermodynamic relations and functions. Gibb’s phase rule.
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