Caravan's Physics Lecture Guide

Book Name: Caravan’s Physics Lecturer Guide

Author: Engr. Sajid Iqbal

Published by: Ch. Ahmad Najib

Printed by:  Bukhari Printing Press Lahore.

    PHYSICS LECTURE GUIDE

CONTENTS                                                           Page No.

Chapter # 1: Mechanics.................................................................................................... 1

Units, Dimensions and Vectors ................................................................................... 1

Newton’s Laws of Motion, Gravitation, Work, Energy and Momentum..................... 12

Fluid Mechanics ........................................................................................................ 35

Periodic Motion.......................................................................................................... 42

Chapter # 2: Waves/Acoustics....................................................................................... 65

Mechanical Waves, Sound and Hearing................................................................... 65

Chapter #3: Optics .......................................................................................................... 85

The Nature of Light, Lenses, Camera, Eye, Microscopes and Telescopes.............. 85

Chapter #4: Thermodynamics ..................................................................................... 121

Temperature, Heat, Laws of Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer............................... 121

Chapter #5: Electromagnetism.................................................................................... 159

Electrostatics, Gauss’s law, Capacitor .................................................................... 159

Electricity, Resistance, DC circuits.......................................................................... 173

Inductance, Magnetic field, Electromagnetic Induction AC circuits, ....................... 187

Chapter #6: Modern Physics........................................................................................ 245

Relativity, Atomic physics, X-rays ........................................................................... 245

The Wave Nature of Particles, Quantum Physics................................................... 253

Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and Cosmology................................................. 258

Semiconductors, Electronics................................................................................... 268

Appendices.................................................................................................................... 315

A The International System of Units...................................................................... 315

B Useful Mathematical Relations .......................................................................... 320

C The Greek Alphabet........................................................................................... 323

D Physics Equations ............................................................................................. 324

E Unit Conversion Tables...................................................................................... 327

F Numerical Constants.......................................................................................... 329

G Formulae............................................................................................................ 332

H Periodic Table of Elements ................................................................................ 333

Glossary......................................................................................................................... 335

References..................................................................................................................... 357

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