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Course description: Theoretical part: Physics and measurement, units and dimensions, principles of motion in one dimension (displacement, average and instantaneous velocity, acceleration, free fall, graphs), vectors and their algebraic and geometric methods, motion in two dimensions, projectile motion, rotational motion, tangential and radial acceleration, Newton's first law and inertial frames, mass and weight, Newton's second law, Newton's third law, friction, work, work and energy, dot product of two vectors and work calculation, work of variable forces, kinetic energy and work theory, conservative and non-conservative forces and potential energy, power, conservation of mechanical energy, linear momentum and conservation, impulse, collisions and their types, collisions in one and two dimensions, rotational motion with constant angular acceleration, angular quantities, inertia, torque, rotational work, properties of matter: Elasticity, stress, strain, strain, elasticity coefficients, strain energy, fluid mechanics: Density and relative density, concept of pressure, Pascal's rule, Archimedes principle, fluid flow, Bernoulli's equation and its applications. States of matter, heat and temperature, zero law of thermodynamics, phase transitions and latent heat, ideal gases. Practical part: Error and measurement, force table, realization of Hooke's law, free fall, study of projectile motion, simple pendulum, realization of Boyle's law, determination of Young's modulus of a wire, determination of specific heat of a solid, determination of coefficient of longitudinal expansion, surface tension in capillary tubes, viscosity coefficient, Newton's law of cooling, determination of melting point of paraffin.