Wednesday 13 July 2011

Topics to be taught in the first lecture on Coulomb's Law

1)        Quantisation of Charge
2)        Properties of force between two point charges
3)        Coulomb’s Law for point charges
4)        Value of Coulomb’s constant
5)        Permittivity of free space
6)        Relative permittivity and Dielectric Constant
7)        Force between two charges in another medium
8)        Place where a third charge experiences no force due to two              
     charges.
9)        Principle of Superposition of Forces.
10)       Coulomb’s Law in Vector Form.

Topics to be taught in the first lecture on Gauss Law

1)       Concept of Area as a vector
2)       Plane Area as a vector
3)       Irregular Area as a vector
4)       Number of electric lines of force and flux
5)       Positive and negative flux
6)       Formula to calculate electric flux through any plane surface
7)       Formula to calculate electric flux through any curved surface
8)       To calculate flux due to constant Electric Field
9)       To calculate flux due to variable magnetic field
10)       Gauss law and flux
11)       Properties of the electric field calculated due to gauss law.
12)       Properties of the charge appearing in gauss law.
13)       Proof of Gauss Law and tips for choosing Gaussian surface.

Topics to be taught in the first lecture on Newton's Law of Motion

1)  Newton’s first law of motion.
2)  Newton’s second law of motion.
3)  Way to solve simple problems of blocks.
4)  Blocks connected with a string and kept on a horizontal surface.
5)  Blocks connected with a string and moving vertically upwards.
6)  Block kept on an inclined plane
7)  Blocks connected with a string and moving on an inclined plane.
8)  Blocks kept on a double inclined plane and connected with a string.
9)  Constraints
a.     Constraints for strings.
b.    Constraints for objects in contact with each other.