Syllabus Physics Total Credits L+T+ (PR/2) Assessment Pattern and Marks Total Marks C Theory Tutorial / Practical ESE(E) PA/CA(M) PA/CA (I) ESE(V) 4 70 30 20 30 150 Unit No. Content 1. PROPERTIES OF MATTER • Stress - Strain - Hooke’s law. • Elastic Behaviour of Material. • Young’s modulus by cantilever depression. • Non-uniform bending. • Uniform bending. • Application - I - shaped girders. • Torsional Pendulum - Couple per unit twist of a wire, Time period. • Application - Determination of Rigidity Modulus. (Chapter - 1) 2. WAVES, MOTION AND ACOUSTICS • Simple Harmonic motion, Free, forced, Resonance. • Damped and undamped vibration. • Damped harmonic motion. • Force vibration and amplitude resonance. • Velocity resonance and energy intake. • Wave motion, transverse and longitudinal vibration. • Sound absorption and reverberation. • Sabine's formula and usage (excluding derivation). • Acoustic of building. • Ultrasonic waves - Properties - Generation - Piezoelectric method - Detection - Kundt’s tube. • Application of Ultrasonics in industries - NDT. (Chapter - 2) 3. OPTICS • Huygens' Principle : Fundamental principle for wave propagation. • Superposition of Waves : Basic principle for understanding interference and diffraction. • Explanation of constructive and destructive interference. • Applications in thin film interference, such as soap bubbles and oil films. • Young’s double slit experiment. • Newton’s rings. • Michelson Interferometer. • Anti-reflection coating. • Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction - diffraction due to ‘n’ slits- plane transmission grating. • Rayleigh criterion for limit of resolution - resolving power of grating. (Chapter - 3) 4. QUANTUM PHYSICS • Black body Radiation-Planck’s law. • Energy distribution function. • Wave-particle duality-de Broglie matter waves. • Concept of the wave function and its physical significance - Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. • Schrodinger’s wave equation - Time-independent and Time -dependent equations. • Particle in a one-dimensional rigid box - tunneling (Qualitative) - Scanning Tunnelling Microscope. (Chapter - 4) 5. LASERS • Properties of Laser, Einstein’s theory of matter radiation : A and B coefficients. • Amplification of light by population inversion. • Different types of lasers. • Gas lasers (He-Ne). • Solid-state lasers (Ruby laser). • Properties of laser beams : Mono-chromaticity, coherence, directionality and brightness, laser speckles. • Applications of lasers in science, engineering and medicine. (Chapter - 5) 6. NEW ENGINEERING MATERIALS SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS : • Introduction of Group IV elements. • Properties. • Concept of carriers. • Concept of bands and band gap. • P-type, N-type materials. • Introduction to P-N Junction Diode and I-V characteristics. • Zener diode and its characteristics. SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS : • Introduction - Properties. • Meissner effect. • Type I & Type II superconductors. • Applications. NANOMATERIALS : • Introduction. • Synthesis of nano materials - Top down and Bottom up approach • Ball milling. • PVD method. • Applications. (Chapter - 6)
