Engineering Physics Syllabus
Here is Engineering Physics syllabus with chapter wise contents, marks evaluation and reference books.
Evaluation Scheme
Theory: – 20 (internal) +80 (final) = 100 marks
Practical: – 20 (internal) +30 (final) = 50 marks
| Chapters | Hours | Marks |
| Oscillation | 7 | 10 |
| Wave motion and Acoustics | 5 | 5 |
| Physical optics | 12 | 15 |
| Geometrical optics | 3 | 5 |
| Laser and optical fiber | 4 | 5 |
| Electrostatics and electromagnetism | 19 | 30 |
| Electromagnetic waves | 5 | 5 |
| Photon and Matter waves | 5 | 5 |
| Total | 60 | 80 |
1. Oscillation: ( 7 hours)
- Mechanical oscillation:- Introduction
- Free oscillation
- Damped oscillation
- Forced mechanical oscillation
- EM oscillation:- Free, damped and forced electromagnetic oscillation.
2. Wave motion: (2 hours)
- Wave and particles
- Progressive wave
- Energy, power and intensity of progressive wave
3. Acoustics: (3 hours)
- Reverberation
- Sabine’s Law
- Ultrasound and it’s applications
4. Physical optics: (12 hours)
- Interference: – analytical treatment of interference, Intensity in double slit interference, Interference in thin films, Newton’s rings, Hadinger fringes.
- Diffraction: -Fresnel and Frounhoffer’s diffraction, intensity due to single slit diffraction, Diffraction grating, x-ray diffraction.
- Polarization: – Double refraction, Nichol prism, wave plates, optical activity, and Specific rotation.
5. Geometrical optics: (3 hours)
- Lenses, combination of lenses
- Cardinal points
- Chromatic aberration
6. Laser and optical fiber ( 4 hours)
- Laser production, He-Ne laser, uses of laser.
- Fiber optics, types of optical fiber, Acceptance angle, Numerical aperture, self focusing, application of optical fiber.
7. Electrostatics: ( 8 hours)
- Electric charges and force
- Electric field and potential
- Electrostatic potential energy
- Capacitors, types of capacitors, capacitors with dielectric
- Charging and discharging of a capacitor.
8. Electromagnetism: (11 hours)
- Direct current: Ohm’s law, resistance and resistivity
- Semiconductor and Superconductor
- Magnetic fields: magnetic force, Biot and Savert law and its applications, Ampere’s law and application, Hall effect, cyclotron, synchrotron
- Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, LR circuit, induced magnetic field, displacement current.
9. Electromagnetic waves: (5 hours)
- Maxwell’s equations
- Wave equations, Speed
- E and B fields
- Continuity equation
- Energy transfer and Poynting vector.
10. Photon and matter waves: (5 hours)
- Quantization of energy
- Electrons and matter waves
- De-Broglie wave equation
- Wave function and its significance
- Schrodinger wave equation
- Probability density
- One dimensional potential well
- Barrier tunneling.
Practical:
- To study the electric field mapping.
- To determine the acceleration due to gravity and radius of gyration of the bar about an axis passing through its center of gravity.
- To determine the value of modulus of elasticity of the materials given and moment of inertia of a circular disc using torsion pendulum.
- To determine the angle of prism and dispersive power of materials of the prism using spectrometer.
- To determine the wavelength of sodium light by Newton’s rings.
- To determine the wavelength of HeNe laser light and use it to measure the thickness of a thin wire by diffraction of light.
- To study the variation of angle of rotation of plane of polarization using concentration of the cane sugar solution
- To determine the specific rotation of the cane sugar solution using polarimeter.
- To determine the low resistance of a given wire by Carey Foster bridge and to determine the resistance per unit length of the wire of the bridge.
- To determine the capacitance of a given capacitor by charging and discharging through resistor.
- To plot a graph between current and frequency in an LRC series circuit and find the resonant frequency and quality factor.
- To determine dielectric constant of a given substance and study its variation with frequency by resonance method.
- To determine the susceptibility of a solution of given materials by Quinkes method.
Reference books:
- Fundamental of physics: Halliday, Resnick and Walker (Latest edition)
- Engineering physics: R.K. Gaur and S.L. Gupta
- A text books of Optics: Brij lal and Subrahmanyam
- Modern Engineering Physics: A.S. Basudeva
- Waves and Oscillation: Brij lal and Subrahmanyam
- Fundamental of Engineering physics: Balkrishna Sapkota, Bhadra pokharel and Binod Bhattarai
Why did the physicist throw his laptop out the window?
He wanted to see how gravity works.
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