ISI Scientific Assistant Physics Syllabus

Indian Statistical Institute Scientific Assistant A Physics

General Properties of Matter – Elasticity, Deforming force and restoring force, Elastic and plastic body, Stress and strain, Hookes law, Stress- strain diagram, Young’s Modulus, Bulk Modulus, Rigidity Modulus and Poisson’s ratio, Surface tension, Capillarity.
Simple Harmonic Motion – Periodic and oscillatory motions, Simple harmonic motion, Simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion, Velocity and acceleration in SHM, Force law of SHM, Energy in SHM, Some systems executing SHM, Damped SHM, Forced oscillations and resonance.
Classical Mechanics and Applications – Laws of Mechanics, Mechanics of a system of particles, Conservation laws, Conservative force, Principle of virtual work, D’Alembert’s principle.
Properties of Fluid and Fluid Flow – Pascal’s law, Buoyancy, Equilibrium of floating body, Archimedes’ principle, Streamline flow and turbulent flow of a fluid. critical velocity, Equation of continuity and Bernoulli’s theorem. Viscosity.