Syllabus For Physics for Electrical Engineering & Electronics & Communication Engineering
Physics (Waves and Optics, and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics)
MODULE 1: WAVES (3 LECTURES)
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATORS, DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR, FORCED MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL OSCILLATORS, IMPEDANCE, STEADY STATE MOTION OF FORCED DAMPED HARMONIC OSCILLATOR
MODULE 2: NON-DISPERSIVE TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES (4 LECTURES)
TRANSVERSE WAVE ON A STRING, THE WAVE EQUATION ON A STRING, HARMONIC WAVES, REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION OF WAVES AT A BOUNDARY, IMPEDANCE MATCHING, STANDING WAVES AND THEIR EIGEN FREQUENCIES, LONGITUDINAL WAVES AND THE WAVE EQUATION FOR THEM, ACOUSTICS WAVES
MODULE 3: LIGHT AND OPTICS (3 LECTURES)
LIGHT AS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE AND FRESNEL EQUATIONS, REFLECTANCE AND TRANSMITTANCE, BREWSTER’S ANGLE, TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION, AND EVANESCENT WAVE. MIRRORS AND LENSES AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS BASED ON THEM
MODULE 4: WAVE OPTICS (5 LECTURES)
HUYGENS’ PRINCIPLE, SUPERPOSITION OF WAVES AND INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT BY WAVEFRONT SPLITTING AND AMPLITUDE SPLITTING; YOUNG’S DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT, NEWTON’S RINGS, MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER, MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER. FARUNHOFER DIFFRACTION FROM A SINGLE SLIT AND A CIRCULAR APERTURE, THE RAYLEIGH CRITERION FOR LIMIT OF RESOLUTION AND ITS APPLICATION TO VISION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS AND THEIR RESOLVING POWER
MODULE 5: LASERS (5 LECTURES)
EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF MATTER RADIATION INTERACTION AND A AND B COEFFICIENTS; AMPLIFICATION OF LIGHT BY POPULATION INVERSION, DIFFERENT TYPES OF LASERS: GAS LASERS (HE-NE, CO2), SOLID-STATE LASERS (RUBY, NEODYMIUM), DYE LASERS; PROPERTIES OF LASER BEAMS: MONO-CHROMATICITY
MODULE 6: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS (5 LECTURES)
WAVE NATURE OF PARTICLES, TIME-DEPENDENT AND TIME-INDEPENDENT SCHRODINGER EQUATION FOR WAVE FUNCTION, BORN INTERPRETATION, PROBABILITY CURRENT, EXPECTATION VALUES, FREE-PARTICLE WAVE FUNCTION AND WAVE-PACKETS, UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.
MODULE 7: SOLUTION OF WAVE EQUATION (6 LECTURES)
SOLUTION OF STATIONARY-STATE SCHRODINGER EQUATION FOR ONE DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS–PARTICLE IN A BOX, PARTICLE IN ATTRACTIVE DELTA-FUNCTION POTENTIAL, SQUARE-WELL POTENTIAL, LINEAR HARMONIC OSCILLATOR. SCATTERING FROM A POTENTIAL BARRIER AND TUNNELING; RELATED EXAMPLES LIKE ALPHA- DECAY, FIELD-IONIZATION AND SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE, TUNNELING IN SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES. THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS: PARTICLE IN THREE DIMENSIONAL BOX AND RELATED EXAMPLES.
MODULE 8: INTRODUCTION TO SOLIDS AND SEMICONDUCTORS (9 LECTURES)
FREE ELECTRON THEORY OF METALS, FERMI LEVEL, DENSITY OF STATES IN 1, 2 AND 3 DIMENSIONS, BLOCH’S THEOREM FOR PARTICLES IN A PERIODIC POTENTIAL, KRONIG-PENNEY MODEL AND ORIGIN OF ENERGY BANDS.
TYPES OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS: METALS, SEMICONDUCTORS, AND INSULATORS. INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC SEMICONDUCTORS, DEPENDENCE OF FERMI LEVEL ON CARRIER-CONCENTRATION AND TEMPERATURE (EQUILIBRIUM CARRIER STATISTICS), CARRIER GENERATION AND RECOMBINATION, CARRIER TRANSPORT: DIFFUSION AND DRIFT, P -N JUNCTION.
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