- Previous Offering: Fall 2019
- Course Pages of other Instructors: Junaid Saif Khan (Fall 2020)
- Timetable:
- BCS 1E — Thursday and Saturday — 02:00 PM – 03:15 PM — Room: E&M-11
- BCS 1C — Thursday and Saturday — 03:30 PM – 04:50 PM — Room: E&M-11
- Office hours will be communicated soon, via email.
- Course Outline: The outline can be downloaded from link.
- Another Note: Solutions of graded instruments are not made public. If interested, instructors can ask for solutions by sending an email from their institutional email address.
- MATLAB Manual for BS Students
- An easy-to-understand MATLAB manual can be downloaded from the following link.
- Week 1
- Vectors and Scalars
- Adding Vectors Geometrically
- Components of Vectors
- Unit Vectors
- Addition of Vectors by Components
- Vectors and the Symmetry in the Laws of Physics
- Scalar Product
- Vector Product
- Selected Sample Problems: 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.05, 3.07
- Selected Exercise Problems: 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
- Video Tutorial of Selected Problems: Link
- Week 2
- What is Mechanics?
- Why do we need differential and integral calculus to describe states of motion?
- The Paradox of Derivative
- Position and Displacement
- Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity
- Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration
- Graphs of Motion
- Projectile Motion
- Uniform Circular Motion
- Selected Sample Problems: 4.01, 4.02, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05
- Selected Exercise Problems: 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 33
- Video Tutorial of Selected Problems: Link
- Assignment 1: Link (Due Date: October 3, 2020)
- Week 3
- Newtonian Mechanics and its Limitations
- Overviews of the available theories to rescue us where Newtonian Mechanics fails
- Frames of Reference
- A quick introduction to Equivalence Principle
- Pseudo Forces
- Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Some Particular Forces
- A Method for solving problems using Newton’s Second Law
- Week 4
- Selected Sample Problems: 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.06
- Selected Exercise Problems: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 19, 23
- Video Tutorial of Selected Problems: (Link will be uploaded soon.)
- Assignment 2: Link (Due Date: October 10, 2020)
- Suggested Readings
- Midterm-I Week
- Week 5
- Why the study of oscillations is important?
- Difference between Vibrations, Oscillations, and Fluctuations
- The Simple Harmonic Motion
- Possible Solutions of Wave Equation
- The Velocity of SHM
- The Acceleration of SHM
- The Force Law for SHM
- Law of Conservation of Energy and SHM
- An Angular Simple Harmonic Oscillator
- The Simple Pendulum (Related Simulations: myPhysicsLab, PhET Colorado)
- Comparing SHM with Uniform Circular Motion (MATLAB Code)
- Selected Sample Problems: 15.01
- Selected Exercise Problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13
- Week 6
- Physics of Waves
- Mechanical Waves
- Electromagnetic Waves and Their Relation with Special Relativity
- Matter Waves and Duality in Nature
- Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
- Function that describes the Wave on a String
- Amplitude, Phase, Wavelength, and Angular Wave Number
- Period, Angular Frequency, and Frequency
- Phase Constant
- The Speed of a Travelling Wave
- Selected Sample Problems: 16.04
- Selected Exercise Problems: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10
- Video Tutorial of Selected Problems: Link
- Assignment 3: Link (Due Date: November 5, 2020)
- Week 7
- Coulomb’s Law
- Quantization of Charge
- Conservation of Charge
- Selected Sample Problems: 21.01, 21.02, 21.03, 21.04
- Selected Exercise Problems: 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 37, 41, 42
- Week 8
- Idea of Fields in Physics
- Electric Field
- Electric Field due to a Charged Particle
- Electric Field due to a Dipole
- Selected Sample Problems: 22.01, 22.02, 22.04
- Selected Exercise Problems: 3, 5, 7, 11, 14, 20, 22, 42, 44, 47
- Week 9
- Concept of Flux and Divergence
- Electric Flux
- Gauss’ Law
- Equivalency of Gauss’s Law And Coulombs’ Law
- Discussion on the factor of 4π in Coulomb’s Constant
- Week 10
- Applying Gauss’ Law: Cylindrical Symmetry
- Applying Gauss’ Law: Planar Symmetry
- Applying Gauss’ Law: Spherical Symmetry
- Selected Sample Problems: 23.01, 23.02, 23.03, 23.04, 23.06, 23.07
- Selected Exercise Problems: 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 36, 41, 45, 46, 47
- Assignment 4: Link (Due Date: November 23, 2020)
- Midterm-II Week
- Week 11
- What is Capacitance?
- Capacitance of a Parallel-Plate Capacitor
- Capacitance of a Cylindrical Capacitor
- Capacitance of a Spherical Capacitor
- Capacitance of a Isolated Sphere
- Parallel and Series Combination of Capacitors
- Selected Sample problems: 25.01, 25.02, 25.03, 25.06
- Selected Exercise problems: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- Week 12
- What is current?
- Difference between Conventional and Electric Current
- Direction of Current
- Current Density
- Drift Speed
- Resistance and Resistivity
- Conductivity
- Ohmic and Non-Ohmic Materials
- Macroscopic View of Ohm’s Law
- Selected Exercise problems: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 29, 31, 32
- Selected Sample problems: 26.02, 26.04
- Assignment 5: Link (Due Date: December 14, 2020)
- Week 13
- Magnetic Fields and the Definition of B
- Magnetic Monopoles
- Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
- Crossed Fields: Discovery of Electron
- A Circulating Charged Particle
- Hall Effect
- Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire
- Selected Exercise problems: 1, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 25, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45
- Selected Sample problems: 28.01, 28.03, 28.05, 28.06
- Week 14
- Discussion Week
- Assignment 6: Link (Due Date: January 7, 2021)
- Week 15
- Biot-Savart Law
- Magnetic Field due to a Long, Straight Current Carrying Wire
- Magnetic Field due to a Circular Current Carrying Wire
- Force between Two Parallel Current Carrying Wires
- Ampere’s Law
- Some Physical Situations to use Ampere’s Law
- Selected Exercise problems: 1, 3, 35, 36, 45, 43, 49, 51, 52, 53
- Selected Sample problems: 29.03, 29.04
