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Outline of lectures
- Revision of concepts
- Force
- Work
- Kinetic and Potential energy
- Conservation of energy
- Fundamental Forces
- Gravitation
- Electromagnetism
- Nuclear Forces
- Weak Interactions
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- Freely falling body
- Galileo's Law
- Inertial and Gravitational Mass
- Equivalence
- Celestial Phenomena
- Determination of distances and periods
- Kepler's Laws of planetary motion
- Universal Law of Gravitation
- Experimental determination of G
- Motion of the Moon around the Earth
- Circular orbits and Kepler's Laws
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- Basic Facts
- Mass of the Earth
- Shape of the Earth
- Acceleration due to gravity
- Variation of g
- Escape velocity
- Mass and weight
- Satellite Motion
- Artificial Satellites
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Important Impact of Gravitation
- Terrestrial phenomena
- Planetary system
- Dynamics of stars
- Galactic dynamics
- Large scale structure of the universe
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Review The Three Laws
- Galiliean Law of inertia and inertial frame
- Action of applied force
- Action and Reaction: Conservation of momentum
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Review
- Forces and Inertial Frames
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The First Law Free Particles
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Motion of a Body
Assume body is a point particle.
Kinematic Relativity
If B is moving with a velocity v with respect to A, then from the view point of B, A is moving with a velocity -v.
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State of Motion
- Change of state of motion of a body requires force.
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Merry Go Round
In a merry-go-round, you are going round about the central pole, but if you look around, it would appear as if the rest of the world rotates.
a=rv2
The change of motion caused by the force can be properly described only in some frames.
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Fixed Stars
- The stars are fixed, the earth is rotating about its axis.
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Galileo
We assume that we know how to distinguish free particles from others.
Once we isolate these free particles, it has nothing to do with their state of motion.
Identify special Frames of Reference.
The concept of frame of reference are called inertial.
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Inertial Frames
Inertial frames of references are those frames in which a body is not acted upon by any force will not accelerate.
No acceleration ⟺ No Force.
Experiment: Foucault pendulum.
Uniform Velocity: Magnitude and Direction.
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Second Law
Mass - Quantity of matter.
Independent of the state of motion.
Momentum: p=mv
Force: Fapp=dtdp
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Second Law
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Momentum
p=mv
Fapp =dtdp
F applied is the cause and dtdp is the effect.
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Force
Examples
Spring Mass system
Frictional Force
Velocity
Lorentz Force
Gravitation
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Lorentz Force
qE+q(v×B)
Force due to the electric field : qE
Force due to the magnetic field : q(v×B)
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Third Law Conservation of Momentum
The third law of Newton establishes a symmetry.
FA→B = −FB→A
dtdp1+dtdp2=0
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Spring Mass System
F=−kx−k′x3…...
F = -kx, is valid only for small displacements.
Viscosity or friction, it can be constant for small velocities.
a block moving on a rough surface, ∝v
At very large speeds, ∝v2
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Third Law Conservation of Momentum
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Second Law
In second law, there is an asymmetry.
Fapp=dtdp
Earth is causing the ball to move.
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Second Law
Remember velocity, momentum, acceleration, force, angular momentum, they are all vectors.
The change of momentum of B is because of the action of A. The change of momentum of A is because of the action of B on A.
FA→B = −FB→A
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Third Law Conservation of Momentum
FA→B = −FB→A
dtdp1+dtdp2=0
The third law tells us, that the total momentum is a conserved quantity.
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Thank You
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