Physics (PH1L001)

A first course on general physics given to first/second semester engineering undergraduates at IIT Bhubaneswar. The course is broadly divided into classical mechanics, oscillations and waves, electricity and magnetism, and quantum mechanics. The detailed curriculum can be found here.

I have been a teaching assistant for this course four times: Spring 2023, Autumn 2022, Spring 2022, and Autumn 2021. 

During Spring 2022 and Autumn 2022, I was involved in the tutorials of the classical mechanics section. 

In Spring 2023, I was involved in the tutorials of the electricity and magnetism section. 

References:

1) Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions by D. Morrin.

This is the main textbook for the classical mechanics section, particularly the Lagrangian method.  The book is intended for beginners, is well written and contains a fairly big compilation of problems. 

2) Introduction to Electrodynamics by D. J. Griffiths

This is the standard reference for almost any undergraduate first course on electricity and magnetism. The book is extremely well written and contains a good number of solved, as well as unsolved problems. 

3) I also like these lecture notes on classical mechanics and electromagnetism by David Tong. 

4) Also check out The Feynman Lectures on Physics.

Note: In Autumn 2022, I also took some tutorials of the oscillations and waves section. The problems can be found here. 

If you're interested to learn more about oscillations, you may check the following textbooks:

1) Truly Nonlinear Oscillations: Harmonic Balance, Parameter Expansions, Iteration, and Averaging Methods by R. E. Mickens, DOI.

2) Strongly Nonlinear Oscillators: Analytical Solutions by L. Cveticanin, DOI.