Gravitation: Gravitation and Gravitational Potential
Course Material
- Historical background and importance of classical mechanics
- Concept of scalars, vectors, coordinates transformations and orthogonal matrix
- Vector products and Proof of various identities of vectors
- Velocity and acceleration in various coordinates.
- Concept of gradient, divergence and curl. Gauss’s divergence theorem and Stokes theorem
- The Newtonian formulation of mechanics and Kinematics of particle motion
- Force and types of force, Problems about constant force acting upon the body
- Motion of the body in resistive medium
- Conservation Theorems
- Oscillatory motion, free oscillator in one and two dimension
- Damped oscillator and its types
- Forced oscillator
- Physical oscillatory systems and electrical oscillation
- Gravitation: Gravitation and Gravitational Potential
- Poisson’s Equations. Lines of force and Equi-potential surfaces
- Chapters 15
- Department Physics
- Teacher
Dr. Muhammad Mazhar Ali Kalyar
