UNIT – I:
MOTION OF PARTICLES: Scalars and Vectors – Types of Forces in Nature-Newton‘s laws and its completeness in describing particle motion – Motion of a variable mass system, motion of a rocket.

UNIT – II:
FRAMES OF REFERENCES: Inertial & Non-inertial frames of reference; Rotating coordinate system – Inertial forces and Properties – Centripetal and Coriolis forces– Effect of Coriolis force due to the rotation of the Earth – Applications of Centrifugal and Coriolis forces – Weather systems.

UNIT – III:
HARMONIC OSCILLATORS: Simple Harmonic oscillator and solution of differential equation, damped harmonic motion and solution of differential equation – over damped, critically damped and lightly damped oscillators- Forced oscillations and resonance (qualitative
treatment).

UNIT – IV:
MECHANICS OF SOLIDS: Elasticity and isotropic materials, stress, strain and Hooke‘s Law- Elastic constants of Isotropic solids. Internal energy due to strain – longitudinal strain, volume strain and shearing strain – Beams- classification-types of support.

UNIT-V:
PHYSICS OF NANOMATERIALS: Introduction, significance of nano scale – Surface area and Quantum confinement- Quantum dot, Quantum well, Quantum wire -Synthesis of nanomaterials- Top Down Process- Ball Milling; Bottom Up Process: Sol-Gel method– CNT- Properties of Graphene- Applications.