CSIR NET 2020 Syllabus
- Newton’s laws. Dynamical systems,
- Phase space dynamics, stability analysis.
- Central force motions.
- Two body Collisions - scattering in laboratory and Centre of mass frames.
- Rigid body dynamics moment of inertia tensor.
- Non-inertial frames and pseudo forces.
- Variational principle. Generalized coordinates.
- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism and equations of motion.
- Conservation laws and cyclic coordinates.
- Periodic motion: small oscillations, normal modes.
- The special theory of relativity
- Lorentz transformations
- relativistic kinematics and mass-energy equivalence.
GATE 2020 Syllabus
- D’Alembert’s principle
- Cyclic coordinates,
- The variational principle
- Lagrange’s equation of motion
- Central force and scattering problems
- rigid body motion; small oscillations
- Hamilton’s formalisms
- Poisson bracket
- The special theory of relativity
- Lorentz transformations, relativistic kinematics, mass‐energy equivalence