COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code: PH 101 / PH 201

Course Name: Physics - 1

Contacts: 3(L) + 1(T) + 0(P)

Credits:  04

COURSE OUTCOME

At the end of this course, the incumbent will be able to:

  1. Remembering: Exhibit memory of previously learned material by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts, and answers.
    Describe how different electronic tools, various parameters & variables of fundamental physics related to the program. To overcome & eliminate different constraints those may arises by solving the physical and numerical problems.
  2. Understanding: Demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating main ideas.
    Overall achievement of innovative problems solving ability by enhancing the power of understanding, knowledge and imagination.
  3. Applying: Solve problems to new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way.
    Apply the knowledge in current research works and publications in various journals and literature of the subjects in different fields adopted by the students as per course curriculum.
  4. Analyzing: Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalizations.
    Describe how the ideas those are adopted can be implemented through projects and demonstrate various models, recent project proposals to execute the knowledge adopted from the course.
  5. Evaluating: Present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas, or quality of work based on a set of criteria.
    Define how the ideas can be share with the multi - disciplinary personals. Lighten on the latest and modern developments in the fields.
  6. Creating: Compile information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions.
    At last students should compile all the knowledge those they acquired from the course and apply to industry, academia, and research keeping in the mind about ethical awareness and impact in the field of environmental (pollution), social (legal) and safety.

 

PREREQUISITES

To understand this course, the incumbent must have idea of:

·         Elementary Physics, Waves & Optics, Basics of Quantum mechanics and Elementary crystallography.

 

SYLLABI

Module 1: Waves & Oscillations:

1.1 Simple Harmonic Motion: Preliminary Concepts. Superposition of SHMs in two mutually perpendicular directions – Lissajous’ figures.                                                                                             2L

1.2 Damped Vibration: Differential equation and its solution. Logarithmic decrement. Quality factor.                                                                                                                                                                                               3L

1.3  Forced Vibration: Differential equation and its solution. Amplitude and Velocity resonance. Sharpness of resonance. Application in LCR circuit.                                                                            3L

Module 2: Optics 1:

2.1 Interference of Light: Conditions for sustained interference. Young’s double slits experiment. Qualitative idea of Spatial and Temporal coherence. Conservation of energy and intensity distribution.  Newton’s ring experiment.                                                                                                                                3L

2.2 Diffraction of Light: Fresnel and Fraunhofer class. Fraunhofer diffraction for single slit, double slits and N-slits. Intensity distribution (no deduction of intensity for N-slits).  Plane transmission grating, Missing orders, Rayleigh criterion. Resolving power of grating and resolving power for Optical instruments (microscope).                                                                                                                              5L

Module 3: Optics 2:

3.1 Polarization: General concept of polarization. Plane of vibration and plane of polarization. Qualitative discussion of plane, circular and elliptical polarized light. Polarization through reflection and Brewster’s law. Double refraction (birefringence). Ordinary and Extra-ordinary rays. Nicol’s prism. Polaroid.  Half wave and Quarter wave plate.                                                                                                                        4L

3.2 Laser: Spontaneous and stimulated emission of radiation. Population inversion, Einstein’s A & B Co-efficient (derivation of mutual relation). Optical resonator and condition for active Laser action. Ruby and He-Ne Laser. Applications of Laser in various field.                                                                       4L

3.3 Holography: Theory of holography. Viewing of hologram. Applications in various field.                                                                                                                                                                                                                3L

Module 4: Quantum Mechanics:

4.1 Concept of dependence of mass and velocity, mass-energy equivalence, energy-momentum relation (no deduction). Blackbody radiation: Raleigh-Jeans’ law (derivation). Ultraviolet catastrophe. Wien’s law, Planck’s radiation law (calculation of average energy of oscillator). Wien’s law and Stefan’s law from Planck’s radiation law, Rayleigh-Jenas’ & Wien’s law-limiting case of Planck’s law, Compton Effect (calculation of Compton wavelength and Compton shift).                                                         5L

4.2 Wave-particle duality and de Broglie’s hypothesis. Concepts of matter waves. Davisson-Germer experiment. Concepts of wave packets and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.                        4L

Module 5: Crystallography:

  5.1 Elementary ideas of crystal structure, lattice, basis, unit cell. Fundamental types of lattices. Bravais lattice. Simple cubic (sc), body centred cubic (bcc) and face centred cubic (fcc) lattices (use of models during class). Miller indices and Miller plane. Co-ordination number and Atomic packing factor.                                                                                                                                                                                                     4L

5.2 X-rays: Origin of continuous and characteristic X-ray. Bragg’s law. Determination of lattice constant.                                                                                                                                                                                        2L

BEYOND SYLLABI

Ideas on different coordinate systems, Unit vectors, components of velocity and acceleration in different coordinate systems, Concepts on Newtonian Mechanics, Dynamics of a particle, Different conservation laws.

LECTURE/LESSON  PLAN

PH101&PH201

 

LECTURE NOTE   

Lecture Notes

 

HOMEWORK/ASSIGNMENT

Assignment - I

 Assignment - II

 Assignment - III

 Assignment - IV

 Assignment - V

 Assignment – VI (Beyond Syllabi)