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Newtonian Mechanics with Examples

Prof. Shiladitya Sengupta · IIT Roorkee

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Scalars, vectors and tensors - I (basic definitions) YouTube
  2. Scalars, vectors and tensors - II (most general definition) YouTube
  3. Scalars, vectors and tensors - III (unit vector, dot product) YouTube
  4. Scalars, vectors and tensors - IV (cross product, triple product) YouTube

Week 2

  1. Review of Newton’s laws of motion - I (tools for analysis) YouTube
  2. Review of Newton’s laws of motion - II (third and second law) YouTube
  3. Review of Newton’s laws of motion - III (first law) YouTube
  4. Review of Newton's laws of motion - IV (how to draw free body diagram correctly) YouTube

Week 3

  1. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - I (force and torque balance) YouTube
  2. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - II (force and torque balance - more examples) YouTube
  3. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - III (rope like structures, nature of tension force) YouTube
  4. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - IV (Massless, flexible suspension cable) YouTube
  5. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - V (Massive flexible suspension cable) YouTube
  6. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - VI (truss (framework) - nature of internal forces) YouTube

Week 4

  1. Statics: Mechanical equilibrium - VII (truss (framework) - examples) YouTube
  2. Statics: Condition of mechanical equilibrium - I (truss - uniqueness of solution, beam with distributed load) YouTube
  3. Condition of mechanical equilibrium - II (truss - beam with distributed load) YouTube
  4. Statics: Condition of mechanical equilibrium - III (more examples, principle of virtual work, constrained motion) YouTube
  5. Condition of mechanical equilibrium - IV (constraints, degrees of freedom, work done by constrained force) YouTube
  6. Statics: Condition of mechanical equilibrium (d’Alembert - Lagrange principle of virtual work - statement and examples) YouTube

Week 5

  1. Statics and Friction - I (Equivalence of principles of force, torque balance and virtual work, stability analysis) YouTube
  2. Statics and Friction - II (stability analysis, energy diagram technique) YouTube
  3. Statics and friction - III (between solids - Amonton-Coulomb laws, common misconceptions) YouTube
  4. Statics and friction - IV (between solids - worked out examples) YouTube
  5. Statics and friction - V (between solid and fluid - drag force) YouTube
  6. Statics and friction - VI (examples - projectile motion with drag force, tying a rope) YouTube

Week 6

  1. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance - I (in one dimension, importance of conservation laws) YouTube
  2. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance - II (in higher dimensions, conservative forces) YouTube
  3. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance - III (projectile motion in real-life) YouTube
  4. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance - IV (Projectile motion - effect of lift and thrust force) YouTube
  5. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance -V (rocket motion - comparing effect of thrust in deep space and at lift off) YouTube
  6. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance -VI (Collisions in daily life - application of energy and momentum balance principles) YouTube

Week 7

  1. Work-energy theorem, energy, momentum balance - VII (Collision at micro-meter, atomic and sub-atomic scales - Brownian motion, Compton effect) YouTube
  2. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - I (centre of mass) YouTube
  3. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - II (Centre of mass of composite objects) YouTube
  4. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - III (moment of inertia) YouTube
  5. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - IV (moment of inertia - 3D objects, composite objects, engineering applications) YouTube
  6. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - V (Symmetry of mass distribution - product of inertia) YouTube

Week 8

  1. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - VI (Determining the principal axes of rotation and moment of inertia about them) YouTube
  2. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - VII (Example of finding principal axes, introduction to rotation, the angular velocity vector) YouTube
  3. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - VIII (the angular momentum vector) YouTube
  4. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - IX (torque) YouTube
  5. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - X (computing rules) YouTube
  6. Translation and rotation of rigid bodies - XI (examples of rolling, collision with rotation) YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Roorkee
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Shiladitya Sengupta
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
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