SYLLABUS
                                  PH25CO5 – APPLIED PHYSICS (ME) – II
      Rigid Body Dynamics: Centre of mass – Moment of inertia (circular disc, solid
cylinder, hollow cylinder, solid sphere, hollow sphere), Gear, shaft, gyroscope
Activities: Demonstration of moment of inertia of Gear, shafts and Gyroscopes.
     Thermal Physics: Thermal conductivity – Transient plane source method, Transient
Line Source method – Forbe’s method – conduction through compound media, Laws
of Thermodynamics.
Activities: Demonstration of thermal conductivity of insulators.
 Phase Transitions: Solid solutions – single component system, binary phase diagrams
– iron-carbon equilibrium diagram, T-T-T-diagram-heat treatment of steels – hardening
techniques.
Activities: Demonstration of Hardening of steels.
Functional Materials: Ceramics – Composites, Fibre Reinforced Plastics, Metallic
Glasses, LED Characteristics
Activities: Demonstration of LED working and its characteristics.