SYLLABUS
PH-101
Engineering Physics
Credits: 3
Lectures: 3 hrs • Tutorials: 0 hrs • Practicals: 0 hrs
Branches: CE • CH • CS • EC • EE • MA • ME • MS • PH
Semesters: 1 • 2
📑Units
1Electrodynamics
- ●Gauss’s Law and applications
- ●Ampere’s Law and its application
- ●Faraday’s law
- ●Displacement current
- ●Maxwell’s equations
- ●Poynting vector
2Interference & Diffraction
- ●Interference by division of amplitude and wavefront
- ●Michelson’s interferometer
- ●Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
- ●Single slit and double slit diffraction
- ●Diffraction grating
3Fiber Optics and Photonics
- ●Optical Fiber: physical structure and basic theory
- ●Modes in optical fibers
- ●Step index and graded index fibers
- ●Losses in optical fibers
- ●Sources and sensors
- ●Applications in communication
4Quantum Mechanics
- ●Compton effect
- ●Wave function
- ●Operators, expectation values
- ●Time-independent and dependent Schrodinger equation
- ●Particle in 1D potential well
5Introduction to Solids
- ●Free electron theory
- ●Fermi level
- ●Bloch’s theorem
- ●Kronig–Penny model
- ●Energy bands
- ●Semiconductors and insulators
6Superconductivity
- ●Discovery and properties
- ●Type I and II superconductors
- ●Meissner effect
- ●BCS theory overview
📔Textbooks
- ●A Textbook of Engineering Physics
M.N. Avadhanulu and P.G. Kshirsagar
- ●Textbook of Engineering Physics
P.S. Aithal and H.J. Ravindra
- ●State Physics
C. Kittel
📚 Reference Books
- ●Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications
A.K. Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan
- ●Solid State Electronic Devices
B.G. Streetman
- ●Modern Engineering Physics
A.S. Vasudeva
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