SYLLABUS

Course Objective(s):
To impart knowledge and expose the essentials of physics in various engineering applications.

Properties of Matter: Elasticity, Cantilever, Young’s modulus (non-uniform bending), Girders: Bridges
and buildings, Viscosity: Stokes method, Surface tension: drop weight method, Thermal expansion,
Thermal stress, Bimetallic strips, Expansion joints

Practical: Non-Uniform bending, Young’s modulus of the material, Torsional pendulum, Rigidity modulus
of the wire and moment of inertia of the disc.

Activities: Virtual demonstration of thermal stress.

Oscillations: Simple Harmonic motion, Torsional pendulum, Couple per unit twist, Damped and Forced
Oscillation

Waves: Waves on a stretched string, Energy and Power, standing waves, Ultrasonics, piezo, electric
method, Acoustic grating, Electromagnetic waves: Maxwell equation, Production of EM waves by dipole
antenna, Propagation of EM waves in free space, wave equation, Cell phone reception

Practical: Melde’s string experiment – Frequency of an electrically vibrating metal tip.

Activities: Virtual demonstration of propagation of EM waves
Quantum Mechanics: Black body radiation, Photoelectric effect, de Broglie hypothesis, Schrodinger
Wave equation, Particle in a box (infinite potential well – three-dimensional box), Barrier penetration and
quantum tunnelling.

Practical: Photo-electric effect, Determination of Planck’s constant.

Activities: Virtual demonstration of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

Applied Optics: Interference: Air wedge, Michelson’s Interferometer, Fiber optics: Structure of a fiber,
Fiber Optic Communication System, Fiber Sensors (Virtual demo), Displacement, pressure sensor and
Temperature sensor, Einstein Co-efficient, Nd:YAG laser, CO2 laser (construction, functioning and
applications), dye laser

Practical: Ruling width of Compact disc using Laser, Thickness of a thin sheet/wire using Air wedge
Method.

Activities: Demonstration of sensors and applications of Lasers

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 50%, End Semester Examinations: 50%
Assessment Methodology: Quiz (5%), Assignments (20%), Flipped Class (5%), Practical (30%), Internal
Examinations (40%)