Concepts for technical Interview for a physics applicant

1. principle of action and reaction.

2. motion of an ideal projectile

3. Rectilinear Simple Harmonic Motion

4. Newton’s 2nd law for translation and rotation?

5. Application on Friction

6. position of the center of mass of a uniform solid cone from its flat surface

7. gravitational potential energy .

8. Newton’s law of restitution.

9. moments of inertia

10. closest approach of two objects moving in a plane with constant velocities.

11. Gauss’s law in electricity

12. work needed to move a charge q from infinity to a point of electric potential V.
13. energy stored in a capacitor in terms of capacitance and potential

14. magnetic force on a current-carrying conductor

15. magnetic force on a moving charge

16. magnetic field of a long, straight, current carrying conductor.

17. Ampere’s law

18. Faraday’s law.

19. energy stored in an inductor.

20. Electronics: Diodes, capacitors, and transistors.

21. thermistors

22. pressure of a fluid

23. root mean square velocity of a gas at temperature T

24. Brownian motion.

25. heat current in conduction.

26. first law of thermodynamics

27. Carnot engine

28. Give the expression of the frequency of the normal modes in a string fixed at both ends.

29. When is the phenomenon of beats detected?

30. Give the expression of the Doppler effect for sound in the case of moving source and moving
listener.

31. Give the formula of the critical angle for light leaving a medium of index n into air.

32. Give the formula of Brewster’s law for the polarizing angle.

33. Give the lensmaker’s equation.

34. Give the expression of the constructive reflection from thin film in case of no relative phase
shift.

35. Give the formula used in the diffraction grating.

36. Give the expression of the Doppler effect for light in case the source is receding from the
observer.

37. Give the relation between total energy and momentum of a moving particle.

38. photoelectric effect.

39. frequency of an atom that makes a transition from an energy level Ei to a lower energy level
Ef,.

40. de Broglie wavelength of a particle

41. Heisenberg uncertainty principle for position and momentum.

42. radius of a nucleus in terms of its nucleon number