Engineering Physics Syllabus
Evaluation Scheme:
There will be questions covering all the chapters in the syllabus. The evaluation scheme of Engineering Physics Syllabus for the question will be as indicated in the table below:
Chapter | Hours | Mark distribution* |
1 | 7 | 10 |
2,3 | 5 | 5 |
4 | 12 | 15 |
5 | 3 | 5 |
6 | 4 | 5 |
7,8 | 19 | 30 |
9 | 5 | 5 |
10 | 5 | 5 |
Total | 60 | 80 |
*Note: There may be minor deviation in mark distribution.
- Oscillation(7 hours)
- Mechanical Oscillation: Introduction
- Free oscillation
- Damped oscillation
- Forced mechanical oscillation
- EM Oscillation: Free, Damped and Forced Electromagnetic oscillation
- Wave motion(2 hours)
- Waves and particles
- Progressive wave
- Energy, power and intensity of progressive wave
- Acoustics(3 hours)
- Reverberation
- Sabine’s Law
- Ultrasound and its applications
- Physical Optics(12 hours)
- Interference
- Intensity in double slit interference
- Interference in thin films
- Newton’s rings
- Hadinger fringes
- Diffraction
- Fresnel and Fraunhoffer’s diffraction
- Intensity due to a single slit
- Diffraction grating
- X-ray diffraction, X-ray for material test
- Polarization
- Double refraction
- Nichol prism, Wave plates
- Optical activity, Specific rotation
- Interference
- Geometrical Optics(3 hours)
- Lenses, combination of lenses
- Cardinal points
- Chromatic aberration
- Laser and Fiber Optics(4 hours)
- Laser production
- He-Ne laser
- Uses of laser
- Fiber Optics
- Self focusing
- Applications of Optical fiber
- Laser production
- Electrostatics(8 hours)
- Electric charge and Force
- Electric field and Potential
- Electrostatic potential energy
- Capacitors, Capacitor with dielectric
- Charging and Discharging of a capacitor
- Electromagnetism(11 hours)
- Direct Current: Electric current
- Ohm’s law, Resistance and Resistivity
- Semiconductor and Superconductor
- Magnetic Fields:
- Magnetic force and Torque
- Hall effect
- Cyclotron, Synchrotron
- Biot-Savart law
- Ampere’s circuit law, Magnetic fields straight conductors
- Faraday’s laws, Induction and Energy transformation, Induced field
- LR circuit, Induced Magnetic field
- Displacement current
- Direct Current: Electric current
- Electromagnetic Waves(5 hours)
- Maxwell’s equations
- Wave equations, Speed
- E and B fields
- Continuity equation
- Energy transfer
- Photon and Matter Waves(5 hours)
- Quantization of energy
- Electrons and Matter waves
- Schrodinger wave equation
- Probability distribution
- One dimensional potential well
- Uncertainty principle
- Barrier tunneling
References:
- Fundamentals of Physics: Halliday, Resnick, Walker (Latest Edition)
- A text book of Optics: Brij Lal and Subrahmanyam (Latest edition)
- Modern Engineering Physics: A. S.Basudeva
- Engineering Physics: R. K.Gaur and S. L.Gupta
- Waves and Oscillation: Brij Lal and Subrahmanyam
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