PHYSICS
PAPER-I
1. (a) Mechanics of Particles :
- Laws of Motion
- Conservation of Energy and Momentum
- Application of Conservation of Energy and Momentum in Rotating Frames
- Centripetal and Coriolis Accelerations in Rotating Frame
- Motion under a Central Force in Rotating Frame
- Conservation of Angular Momentum
- Kepler’s Laws
- Gravitational field and Potential due to Spherical Bodies
- Gauss and Poisson Equations
- Gravitational Self-Energy
- Two-body Problem
- Reduced Mass
- Rutherford scattering;
- Centre of mass and laboratory reference frames.