Physics I

Basic Dimensions, dimensional analysis, the international system of units SI, elasticity, tensile stress, shear stress, bulk stress, fluid Statics, hydrostatic pressure, Pascal’s principle, Archimedes’ principle, dynamics of ideal fluids, continuity equation, Bernoulli’s equation, viscosity, oscillatory motion, simple harmonic motion, spring-mass system, planar, cylindrical, and spherical waves, wave propagation, sound waves, thermodynamics, the nature of heat, the laws of thermodynamics, temperature, thermal expansion, kinetic theory of gases, ideal gases, molar specific heat, degrees of freedom, reversible and irreversible processes, thermal cycles, thermal engines and heat pumps.