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

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.

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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