BT-201 · Engineering Physics/Official Syllabus
Engineering Physics (BT-201) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Wave nature of particles and the Schrodinger equation
- Introduction to Quantum mechanics
- Wave nature of Particles
- operators
- Time-dependent and time-independent Schrodinger equation for wavefunction
- Application: Particle in a One dimensional Box
- Born interpretation
- Free-particle wavefunction and wave-packets
- vg and vp relation
- Uncertainty principle
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Unit 2
Wave optics
- Huygens’ principle
- superposition of waves and interference of light by wave front splitting and amplitude splitting
- Young’s double slit experiment
- Newton’s rings
- Michelson interferometer
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- Farunhofer diffraction from a single slit and a circular aperture
- the Rayleigh criterion for limit of resolution and its application to vision
- Diffraction gratings and their resolving power
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Unit 3
Introduction to solids
- Free electron theory of metals
- Fermi level of Intrinsic and extrinsic
- density of states
- Bloch’s theorem for particles in a periodic potential
- Kronig-Penney model(no derivation) and origin of energy bands
- V-I characteristics of PN junction
- Zener diode
- Solar Cell
- Hall Effect
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Unit 4
Lasers
- Einstein’s theory of matter radiation interaction and A and B coefficients
- amplification of light by population inversion
- different types of lasers: gas lasers (He-Ne, CO2)
- solid-state lasers(ruby, Neodymium)
- Properties of laser beams: mono-chromaticity, coherence, directionality and brightness
- laser speckles
- applications of lasers in science, engineering and medicine
- Introduction to Optical fiber
- acceptance angle and cone
- Numerical aperture
- V number
- attenuation
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Unit 5
Electrostatics in vacuum
- Calculation of electric field and electrostatic potential for a charge distribution
- Electric displacement
- Basic Introduction to Dielectrics
- Gradient, Divergence and curl
- Stokes’ theorem
- Gauss Theorem
- Continuity equation for current densities
- Maxwell’s equation in vacuum and non-conducting medium
- Poynting vector
Laboratory Experiments
- To determine the dispersive power of prism.
- To determine the ʎ of sodium light with the help of newton’s Ring.
- Resolving Power of Telescope.
- YDSE (Young’s double slit Experiment).
- To determine the frequency of AC mains supply.
- V-I Characteristics of P-N junction diode.
- To determine the ʎ of diode loses by single slit diffraction.
- To determine the plank’s constant with the help of photocell.
- Hall’s effect experiment.
- Calibration of ammeter by using reference zener diode.
- To study the effect of temperature on reverse saturation current in P-N junction diode and to determine the energy band gap.
- To determine the ʎ of sodium by using plane diffraction grating.
- To determine the prominent lines of mercury source by plane diffraction grating.
- To determine the numerical aperture of an optical fiber.
- To determine ʎ of given laser by plane diffraction grating.
Reference Books
- Optics — A. Ghatak
- Principles of Lasers — O. Svelto
- Introduction to Electrodynamics — David Griffiths
- Quantum Mechanics — D.J. Griffiths
- Physics — Halliday, Resnick
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