Objective

To provide the concept and knowledge of physics with the emphasis of present day application

Syllabus

  1. Oscillation
    1. Mechanical Oscillation: Introduction
    2. Free oscillation
    3. Damped oscillation
    4. Forced mechanical oscillation
    5. EM Oscillation: Free, damped and Forced electromagnetic oscillation
  2. Wave motion
    1. Wave and particles
    2. Progressive wave
    3. Energy, power and intensity of progressive wave
  3. Acoustics
    1. Reverberation
    2. Sabine' Law
    3. Ultrasound and its applications
  4. Physical Optics
    1. Interference
      1. Intensity in double slit interference
      2. Interference in thin films
      3. Newton's ring
      4. Hadinger fringes
    2. Diffraction
      1. Fresnel and Farunhoffer's diffraction
      2. Intensity dur to a single slit
      3. Diffraction grating
      4. X-ray diffraction, x-ray for material test
    3. Polarization
      1. Double refreaction
      2. Nichol prism, wave plates
      3. Optical activity, specific rotation
  5. Geometrical Optics
    1. Lenses, combination of lenses
    2. Cardinal points
    3. Chromatic aberration
  6. Laser and Fiber Optics
    1. Laser production
      1. He-Ne laser
      2. Uses of laser
    2. Fiber Optics
      1. Self focusing
      2. Applications of optical fiber
  7. Electrostatics
    1. Electric charge and force
    2. Electric field nad potential
    3. Electrostatic potential entery
    4. Capacitor, capacitor with dielectric
    5. Charging and discharging of capacitor
  8. Electromagnetism
    1. Direct Current: Electric current
      1. Ohm's law, resistance and resistivity
      2. Semiconductor and superconductor
    2. Magnetic fields:
      1. Magnetic forace and Torque
      2. Hall effect
      3. Cyclotron, synchrotron
      4. Biot-Savart law
      5. Ampere's circuit law; magnetic fields straight conductors
      6. Faraday's law, Induction and energy transformation, induced field
      7. LR circuit, induced magnetic field
      8. Displacement current
  9. Electromagnetic waves
    1. Maxwell's equations
    2. Wave equations, speed
    3. E and B fields
    4. Continuity equations
    5. Energy transfer
  10. Photon and matter waves
    1. Quantization of energy
    2. Electrons and matter waves
    3. Schrodinger wave equation
    4. Probability distribution
    5. One dimensional potential well
    6. Uncertainity principle
    7. Barrier tunneling