Classical Mechanics

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Lectures

Lecture 0. [Background]
Lecture 1. [Streamline & Turbulent Flow]
Lecture 2. [Couette, Poisseuille & Stoke's Flow]
Lecture 3. [Intertial Systems]
Lecture 4. [Uniformly Accelerated System]
Lecture 5. [EOM in Rotating Frames]
Lecture 6. [Motion on Earth Surface]
Lecture 7. [Flow of Dry water]
Lecture 8. [Euler's equation]
Lecture 9. [Infamous laws]
Lecture 10. [Flow of Wet water]

Homework

Problem Set 1. (due 18/12/2024) [Submit via LMS].
Problem Set 3. (due 10/01/2025) [Submit via LMS].

Remarks

Read the preliminary lectures on Elasticity.
Watch : Dissociation of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
Watch : Macroscopic reversibility in Non-Newtonian fluid.

Topics

Fluid Motion:
- Kinematics of Moving Fluids: Idea of compressible and incompressible fluids, Equation of continuity, streamline and turbulent flow, Reynold's number. Euler's Equation. The special case of fluid statics F = ∇p, Simple applications (e.g: Pascal's law and Archimedes principle). Bernoulli’s Theorem.

Study Materials

General Properties of Matter - Sengupta Chatterjee/D.S.Mathur.
Feynman Lectures in Physics (Vol.1 & 2).
Fluid Mechanics (Vol.6) & Theory of Elasticity (Vol.7) - L.D. Landau & E.M. Lifshitz.
The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics - F. Moukalled, L. Mangani & M. Darwish.
An Introduction to Mechanics - D. Kleppner, R.J. Kolenkow.
Mechanics - Berkeley Physics (Vol.1) - C.Kittel, W.Knight et.al.
Physics - Resnick, Halliday and Walker.