Topics include Coulomb's law, sources of dc potential, resistance, conductance, Ohm's law, power and energy, ammeters, voltmeters, voltage dividers, ohmmeter, Kirchhoff's laws, series and parallel circuits, circuit analysis techniques, Wheatstone bridge, electrostatic fields, dielectric materials, capacitance, series and parallel arrangement of capacitors, transients in R-C circuits. Offers an introduction to mechanical and electromagnetic wave phenomena including derivation of wave equations and wave velocities, energy and momentum carried by waves, wave reflection in terms of impedance mismatch, standing waves, and radiation of electromagnetic waves. This is followed by geometrical and physical optics. Use of mathematical and software tools for modelling physical systems and for data analysis.
Symbolic software is used for calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and vector calculus.
Curve fitting and Fourier techniques are also presented. Calorimetry, thermal expansion, heat transfer and the empirical gas laws. Mean free path and transport phenomena. Zeroth, first and second laws of thermodynamics. Entropy and heat engines.