COMMITTEE REPORT

Telugu Akademi has constituted a broad-based committee consisting of senior teachers drawn from different universities, Government degree colleges and Government Junior colleges to go through all the questions raised by Sri D.V.Brahmaji.

The committee has appreciated the efforts and contributions made by the authors, editors of these Intermediate text books in physics and also the Telugu Akademi for its efforts in bringing out these text books.

The committee feels that whenever a text book is published, there might be some possibility for the occurrence of print errors, mistakes, spell mistakes, little ambiguities in the language part and these are normally corrected in the subsequent editions.

The committee have gone through all the questions raised by Sri D.V.Brahmaji and also have gone through the revised text books of 2009 and they found that still there are few simple mistakes, spell mistakes, print errors and also in some places some ambiguity in the language part while explaining the concepts. Committee has found that these are not blunders as pointed out by Sri D.V.Brahmaji and could be sorted out easily. The opinion of the

committee and corrections made by the committee are incorporated in the web site of the Akademi for the use of student community in particular and the teachers and general public in general. Any left out corrections to be made will be taken care in the next reprint. Most of the corrections were done in the revised edition, 2009.

FIRST YEAR
The report and corrections made by Broad-based Committee with regard to certain mistakes and errors found in the First Year Intermediate Physics text book which are to be incorporated in the next reprint or edition. The picture denoting 0-1-1-2 cm and 44 Fig 2.1 20m clearly exposes the recklessness with which the subject is handled It is said that - a is anti parallel to a. 46-Art It is meaningless to write 'It is said 2.1.6 that'. Even the coordinate system is not 50represented properly. The figure is Fig.2.10 completely wrong. The figure is a blunder How to write any vector in its unit vector form - a meaningless and 51Assess nonsense statement. We can write a No.10 vector in terms of i,j,k - the unit vectors along x,y and z axes. No figure is given. At one place the angle is given to be - 58o with -ve x52-Ex.3 axis and after two lines, the angle is given to be -58o with +ve x-axis. Utter carelessness is apparent. The statement of parallelogram law is quite meaningless, absurd and 52-Art 2.3 nonsense. We represent the vectors by the sides of a parallelogram but not the reverse as mentioned. It is stated that when P and Q are antiparallel, the resultant R=P-Q and angle between P and R is = 0o . 54 But this is right only when P is greater than Q. If P is less than Q, then R=Q-P and = 180o . This is a great blunder. This can be done only when all the three forces 55-Last two lines keep the body in equilibrium - that is only when the resultant is zero.
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Inelastic collisions are defined as in which kinetic energy is conserved A blunder Definition of coefficient of restitution is meaningless and quite improper. "Their" is to explained "Relative" is quite irrelevant. In the first para it is stated that the particle at the centre moves along a straight line. Fig.6.1" But, the straight line is not there. The centre of mass is said to be a point within the boundary of the body. But in page 200 - Answer to assess No.3, the CM is out side the body. In consistent writings leading to confusion. "Centre of inertia" is brought into picture unnecessarily to confuse and complicate the matter. The treatment is not at all proper. Made matter complicated and confusing. How friction is a self adjusting force is not properly dealt with. Quite confusing and ambiguous statements are made. Definition of angular velocity is a blunder.

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First escape velocity is given and then orbital velocity - not even a 309proper order of topics is maintained. Art.9.7 The derivation of escape velocity formula is not at all satisfactory. In this wonderful text book, a 313relation between escape velocity and Art.9.7.1 orbital velocity is derived. The escape velocity from the surface of a black hole is asked and the 314answer (in page 331) is given as the Assess No.21 velocity of light - Nonsense to the Page 331 power of nonsense - Even light cannot escape from a black hole. Practical limits of Poisson's ratio are given as 0.2 and 0.4. But, in the next page itself the value for aluminium is 0.16, for steel 0.19 and for glass 0.19 383-Last all are less than 0.2. The value for Para lead is 0.43 greater than 0.4. Refer NCERT text and University Physics. We can find in these texts, a very large number of such inconsistent statements. Including the figure 11.8, the 384 & 385 treatment is quite confusing and Art.11.2.1 improper. The entire treatment is just copied from a Degree text book - it is 416absolutely unnecessary and beyond Art.12.2 the level of intermediate students. It is quite irrelevant also. The entire treatment is confusing and improper. What is the meaning of 434-435 (second para) "magnitude of force F Art 13.1 getting perpendicular to the surface area A". 3rd para is not at all the correct and Same proper way to prove pressure is a page scalar. Principle of buoyancy is treated in an improper way. Name of Archimedes 436is no where mentioned. How Art.13.1.1 Eq.(13.9) is arrived at is not shown. Quite a shabby treatment.

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Treatment followed is quite improper and confusing. Statement of theorem 442-Art 56 is in one way and Eq.(13.9) is in 13.2.1 quite a different way. The Eq. Is not for unit volume. Are not properly and fully worked 445out and are full of mistakes - just 57 Ex.5,6 copied from some competitive exam and 7 guide. "Poiseuille deduced an expression to determine the coefficient of 44958 Viscosity" Nonsense and Art.13.3.3 meaningless. He derived it theoretically. Even the name of Stokes is not 59 450 written properly. To prove R is dimensionless units 60 452-Ex.13 are written - an improper way. The problem is framed in such a wonderful way that for any radius 456 61 Problem 4 the data will be satisfied. But answer is given as 2 cm.
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Answer is 5/s One part is in SI (m/s) and other part is in CGS (/cm) A spherical ball is dropped in a long Already corrected column of viscous liquid. Describe its motion. The answer given is (page 457 No.8): First the speed increases, then it decreases and after some time a constant velocity is achieved. This is a blunder, against the basic principles of physics. It is the acceleration that gradually decreases and becomes zero. So the velocity goes on increasing First rapidly and then slowly. Finally, when acceleration becomes zero, the increase in velocity stops and the body moves with (constant) terminal velocity. The acceleration is at no time negative and hence no question of velocity decreasing. A substance in liquid form has only In this context size represents size - What nonsense? volume.

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Temperature produces correct result - What nonsense? Temperature of melting point, temperature of boiling point - What 460-3rd para nonsense. These points themselves represent temperatures. Their (solids) expansion is different for isotropic and anisotropic solids 466Art.14.2 Meaningless and nonsense. For 2nd para anisotropic solids the expansion will be different in different directions. "The mean position increases with 467-Art 14.2.2 last temperature." Nonsense and lines meaningless. Absolute zero in Kelvin and Celsius scales and melting point of ice and 486 triple point of water are all confused and wrongly interpreted. The concept of internal energy is not 521/Art 15.2.4 at all clear and lucid. The treatment is not clear and quite 522Art.15.2.5 confusing. Why Cp is greater than Cv is not 529 clearly explained.
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SECOND YEAR
The report and corrections made by Broad-based Committee with regard to certain mistakes and errors found in the Second Year Intermediate Physics text book which are to be incorporated in the next reprint or edition Instead of defining in general a wave motion as The propagation of a periodic disturbance carrying energy and then explaining different kinds of waves, a narrow and limited definition is given in a chapter Wave Motion. This figure represents both transverse and longitudinal waves. The treatment followed gives a wrong impression that it is for only a transverse wave having crests and troughs. Meaningless and confusing statements What is the meaning of If two or more waves take place Algebraic sum is a blunder. It should be a vector sum Resnick & Halliday, Art 19-4 page 470 The word similarly used gives entirely a wrong meaning that for both transverse and longitudinal para type of waves there will be a change of type which is not. The entire Art 1.1.3 deals with only transverse waves while we are here dealing with longitudinal (sound) waves. Reflection of longitudinal waves is not explained. Refer A text book of Sound page 124 for correct treatment. Para 2 is a blunder, confusing and meaningless. Why sin (t kx) is changed as sin (kx t) ? The equation just above eqn.(1.5) results in Y = -2A sin t cos kx completely quite different from eqn. (1.5) and gives wrong result. The sound waves are not reaching the observer. No arrow mark. At the right hand side, the waves should be crowded together as in Fig.20-11 of Resnick & Halliday, P.514 Observer is not shown. Observer moving Corrected in revised edition. No correction needed

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towards is not crossing any waves meaningless. Order of the three figures is not proper. Observer is moving away from waves no waves are reaching him. The minimum intensity level below which 31 Art sound becomes inaudible. This is quite a 1.5.2-1st 8 meaningless and absurd statement like para last 3 saying the minimum marks a student has to lines get to fail in the examination. Definition of reverberation time is quite confusing and meaningless. The growth and decay of sound in a room is out of syllabus and is quite confusing and meaningless as usual. BC portion does not represent the steady 9 31 Art 1.5.3 state. Why C should represent 106 I0 value? need not. Unnecessary, meaningless, out of syllabus matter is presented in abundance. Refer: A text book of sound Art 259 page 288 Fig.194 for proper analysis. The statement gives a completely wrong meaning that it is only when light is refracted 45-Failures that velocity of light in denser medium is of the 10 theory No.2 greater. In Foucaults rotating mirror experiment, there is no refraction. Ether is mentioned to be very dilute. But sometimes the same ether is required to be a solid matter of great rigidity Ref. Atomic Physics P.395 No.1 and University Physics P.786, 4th para. Nowhere it is mentioned that Huygens proposed longitudinal waves and Fresnel and 45 Art 11 2.1.2 Young modified the light waves to be transverse. As such, the statement that Huygens wave theory cannot explain polarization is meaningless. We explain polarization also using wave theory (modified).

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Defining absolute permittivity and absolute It is correct. Refer DN permeability for free space is meaningless. Vasudeva Electricity and It is for any other medium that we divide the Magnetism values of medium by values of free space to get relative values. It provides more clarity to being disturbed at the same instant of time the definition. is meaningless What is meant by negative disturbance?
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Wave length is the characteristic of colour of light The frequency remains the same 16 53- 3rd para as light travels from one medium to another as it (frequency) is the characteristic of the source (colour). Conditions for critical angle The matter is nonsense and meaningless as what is 17 61- 1st para mentioned here is conditions for total internal reflection. Mirage is mentioned to be due total internal reflection. This wrong treatment is followed by even NCERT text books. There is no need for T.I.R. to get mirage. The light ray striking the ground after 61- Art 18 successive refractions from denser to 2.3.3 No.(3) relatively rarer media gets reflected at the ground now gets successive refractions from rarer to relatively denser media. The wrong approach should be immediately rectified.

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The entire treatment in the first para is No correction required. meaningless and confusing. Fig.2.14 will be modified S to increase with h, are should have I fixed. with one more h value. 64- Art Actually I is the focus F. If F is fixed for 19 2.4.1 and paraxial and marginal rays there will be no Fig.2.14 spherical aberration at all. Unnecessary matter is included with meaningless, erroneous interpretations. The explanation given is As against the writing in the para, both correct. 20 65- 2nd para images (at I and I1) are sharply focused at the centre and diffused near the outer edge. Such adjustment is 72- Art The lenses are fitted at the ends of a metal possible in microscope. st 21 2.5.2 1 tube No. In such a case the distance para between the lenses cannot be altered.

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At this stage this is not The dispersive power also depends on the required. pair of colours chosen. Angular dispersion of two extreme It is for two specified colours. Any two colours can be chosen widely differing and the dispersive power can be defined. wavelengths. So extreme colours are taken. Solar spectrum appears to be a continuous The statement in the spectrum. It does not appear it is a revised edition is correct. continuous spectrum.

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During total solar eclipse, light from photosphere is cutoff. This is impossible and the conclusions are meaningless such writings are ingenious inventions misleading the students. Optical path definition is not clear and proper. What is the meaning of in two different media 1x1 = 2 x 2 ? What is the meaning of x and x both being optical paths and change in optical path = x - x. The treatment is quite confusing and meaningless. What is the meaning of A1 and A2 are oppositely directed? Light may interact with obstacles, apertures whose size is much larger than the wave length Does this mean that light does not interact with objects of smaller size? All quite confusing and unclear. In original Youngs double slit experiment only pin holes are used not slits. What is meant by slits in a screen. Cylindrical wave fronts. Nowhere in the text the point sources and extended source emitting spherical and cylindrical wave fronts is explained no consistent development of the subject. The treatment is quite unscientific. First deriving x = x 2 x1 and then generalizing it to xm+n xm in unscientific.

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Again the same blunder as above (in No.32) Polarized light vibrations are not shown between T1 and T2. Im is to be replaced by Io and Io is the intensity of the (polarized) light coming out through the first plate (polarizer). The writings here lead to very wrong concept.
This law can be applied only when the light reaching a polarizing sheet is already polarized Meaningless and nonsense.

The fig is correct. Between T1 and T2 arrow components are to be drawn. I = Im cos2 where I is the intensity of the light transmitted through T2. If I0 is the intensity of the I unpolarised light I m = 0 2 Other text books have also being referred and found the concept, formula and problem referred are found to be correct. It is applicable in either case.

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Polarization by refraction Actually any standard text book mentions pile of plates under polarization by reflection only, by successive refraction, more and more components are eliminated in the refracted light. But, the reflected light will always be completely plane polarized in this case. K depends on the system of units also This most vital fact is missing Defining 0 as absolute permeability of free space is meaningless Free space has got only permeability. It is only for any other medium that and r = 0 are meaningful. Definition of magnetic field (in bold type) is not at all proper and complete. On what material the field can exert force is not mentioned. On what matter induction is produced is not mentioned. Without defining magnetic flux, unit is given and B is defined interms of flux In article 8.6.1, flux is defined interms of B most inconsistent treatment. A meaningless figure. Placing magnet in vertical position is not proper.

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Instead of stating in general, specific Example given is thermocouple of iron-copper is taken and relevant and contact potential and its variation with understandable. temperature are given with reference to copper-iron couple only. Not a proper treatment. Corrected in revised At one place metal is used and in the next edition. line element is used. Concept given in the For Peltier effect a closed thermocouple is paragraph is justified. It not at all required. Just one junction is is perception dependent. sufficient. For Thomson effect there is no need even for Explanation in the book a junction and even for two metals. is justified.

No explanation is given why heat is absorbed It is briefly explained in when current flows from cooler parts to the text book. Does not 326- last 50 hotter parts. require any lengthy para description at Intermediate level. Confusing and quite unclear. Because of In the revised edition it is accurate measurement of thermo emf with presented more clearly potentiometer it is possible to measure and logically. temperatures (with a thermocouple) as low 32951 Advantages as 0.025oC; Because of low thermal capacity No.3 rapidly changing temperatures can be measured as it takes very very little time to attain temperature. The two are entirely different aspects.

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In the revised edition, it is explained more clearly. In order to avoid confusion in the minds of students a standard notation has already been implemented in the revised edition. It is an assumption only. Therefore it depends on the perception. Explanation given in Art 8.3.1 is in elaborate form to enable the student to follow easily.

Intensity of magnetic induction field, intensity of magnetic induction, magnetic induction, magnetic field magnetic field of 53 Chap.8 flux density, magnetic field of induction so many different names are used just for Magnetic induction. Why should the magnetic induction B be 347- Art 8.3 along Y axis? Need not be. B and v are in xy 54 plane that is all. Fig.8.11 Charge is taken as q. But n is taken as number of moving (??) electrons per unit volume. Again current is written as I =nqvdA. -The most inconsistent? and ambiguous and confusing treatment. It is quite unscientific to give the magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron as just M=evr/2. It should reach to the result M = (eh/4 m)n and Bohr magnetism should be explained. To start with a rectangular current loop is taken. On the next page, para-2 at two places it became twice circular loop and then a coil.

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It is derived in general for an electron in a circular orbit unlike Bohr orbit. It is written according to the scope of the syllabus. As long as the face area is same, torque is independent of the shape of the coil. In the revised edition ambiguity was sorted out appropriately. It was already corrected in the revised edition.

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revised 2009 edition. The experts do not know what is the wrong and why? Conditions for sensitivity - meaningless The word conditions 357 last does not affect the para concept. The purpose of shunt is stated to decrease the In the revised edition effective resistance which is not 2009 the concepts are The main purpose of the shunt is to (1) clearly rephrased increase the range (2) protect the meaningfully. 359 1st galvanometer from damage are completely para forgotten. ig the maximum safe current that can pass through the galvanometer is also missing here and in voltmeter article. n=v/vg is the ratio of maximum voltage to be n= v/vg is clearly measured to the maximum voltage across the presented in the text 361 galvanometer. book. Inter conversions Interpretation of Vg is quite meaningless and have also been explained nonsense. in the text book. The galvanometer will have ig, the maximum In the revised edition 361 Ex.15 page safe current that it can with stand. 2009, it has already been 362 3rd line Effective resistance R has no meaning here. amended. Definition of magnetic flux is quite obsolete The concept needs to be and unscientific. understood in that original format only which 364 Art 8.6.1 cannot be viewed as obsolete. So it is meaningful to have it. Statement of the first law is itself View that was suggested meaningless. What is an electric circuit? is was addressed already in altered is not proper. Where is the time rate the equation (8.40) in the 365 Art of change of flux and where is the stress that revised edition 2009. 8.6.2 induced emf will be generated as long as Electric circuit was given there is change in flux withtime? already as coil in the very beginning. In the revised edition =BA is not mentioned in Eq.8.38, in 2009, eqn. 8.38 Eq.8.43 cos is missing. Various ways of 366 incorporates the Eq.8.43 generating induced emf by changing B, A suggestions already or are not at all discussed.
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readability. Even conditionalities for the last point have been included. The treatment is entirely meaningless and Kirchhoffs voltage law nonsense. Apply Ohms law to a circuit is has already been nonsense. Actually it is Kirchhoffs voltage implemented in the Art 8.8, revised edition 2009. 8.10, 8.11 rule that gives the result. Pages 372See: Concepts of 376, 381Physics, H.C.Verma 388 Vol.II Electrical Technology B.L.Theraja Vol.-I Showing current direction in ac circuits is It is the direction of quite meaningless and nonsense. instantaneous current in the respective circuits to apply Kirchhoffs voltage law, as given in the Fig. 8.35, 8.37, 8.38, revised edition 2009. 8.40 Refer : concepts of physics H.C. Verma vol-II, Electrical technology B.L. Theraja, vol-I. The para as a whole is absolutely wrong and In the revised edition gives rise to a wrong conception. Planck 2009, the concept has spoke of quantization for both emission and been properly given. absorption. Einstein stated that radiation However there is a print 414 & 415 propagates itself in quanta. error in the second line of Art.9.23 page 415. It should be read as Einstein explained photoelectric effect Keeping in view the points raised in the query, all the standard text books have been The treatment is confusing, unnecessarily visited and the concepts, complicated and quite inconsistent. Most 441 Art formulations and even 10.1.3 irrelevant. Ex.4 is quite confusing. Just the problem have been copies from H.C.Verma. found to be error free. Therefore in the revision also that are carried forward. N undergo decay in time t when N is the Appropriate corrections number of nuclei to start with N t = N have been made in the 448 Art.10.1.11 with positive sign. revised edition 2009.

small. (2) Same flux links both the primary and the secondary. (3) Flux leakage should be small and (4) Secondary current is small.

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Both are correct in their given context. However for more emphasis, the following may be incorporated as a foot note at page 464. The 238U is not suitable as a fuel in a nuclear reactor as it cannot sustain chain reaction. In this sense 238U is considered as nonfissionable. When 238U undergoes fission with fast neutrons the probability of fission is very low. Inclusion of fermions and bosons will over burden the students. Therefore those are not included.

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Non fissionable 238U. But in page 459 it is written: 238U undergoes fission with fast neutrons. Self contradictory writings

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No mention of fermions and bosons. No mention of pair production. The entire treatment is quite confusing and boring.

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