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Academic Plan For I-Semester: ETPH: 103 Subject: Applied Physics-I

This document provides an academic plan for a semester of an applied physics course. It outlines the 16-week semester with 32 lectures and 16 tutorials. The course is worth 3 credits and covers topics in interference, diffraction, polarization, lasers, fiber optics, relativity, ultrasonics, nuclear physics, and particle accelerators over 3 terms. Specific topics are listed for each of the 32 lectures along with the corresponding tutorial. Reference books for the course are the approved scheme and syllabus for the first year of a Bachelor of Technology program.

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Academic Plan For I-Semester: ETPH: 103 Subject: Applied Physics-I

This document provides an academic plan for a semester of an applied physics course. It outlines the 16-week semester with 32 lectures and 16 tutorials. The course is worth 3 credits and covers topics in interference, diffraction, polarization, lasers, fiber optics, relativity, ultrasonics, nuclear physics, and particle accelerators over 3 terms. Specific topics are listed for each of the 32 lectures along with the corresponding tutorial. Reference books for the course are the approved scheme and syllabus for the first year of a Bachelor of Technology program.

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ACADEMIC PLAN FOR I-SEMESTER

ETPH: 103
SUBJECT: APPLIED PHYSICS-I
TOTAL TEACHING WEEK IN SEMESTER: 16 WEEKS
TOTAL LECTURES CLASSES AVAILABLE: 32
TOTAL TUTORIAL CLASSES AVAILABLE: 16
CREDITS: 03

TOPICS

LECTURE TUTORIAL

1ST TERM
INTERFERNCE
1. Introduction:
Definition,
Huygens
principle,
path
difference,
phase
difference, fringe width, types of sources,
types of interference(Division of wave
front and division of amplitude)
2. Fresnels Biprism, white light fringes,
Parallel thin film.
3. Wedge shaped film
4. Newtons
rings:
determination
of
wavelength and refractive index, white
light fringes
DIFFRACTION
5. Introduction:
definition,
difference
between
Fresnel
and
Fraunhoffer
diffraction
6. Fraunhoffer diffraction due to single slit
(using Phasor notation)
7. Diffraction due to N-slits, diffraction
grating,
8. Absent
spectra,
Resolving
power,
dispersive power of grating(Qualitative
only), determination of wavelength using
grating
POLARIZATION
9. Introduction: Production of plane polarised
light by different methods, Brewsters law,
Malus law(definition only), optic axis,
plane of polarisation, plane of vibration,
uniaxial crystal(positive and negative and
their wavefronts)
10. Double refraction, Nicol
prism(construction and limitations)
11. Quarter wave plate, Half wave plate,
production of plane , circular and
elliptically polarised light
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12. Specific rotation, Laurents half shade


polarimeter
2nd TERM
LASER
13. Principle of laser ,Spontaneous and
stimulated emission
14.
Einsteins coefficients, He-Ne laser
FIBER OPTICS
15. Introduction, Step index and graded index
fibre, single mode and multi mode fiber.
16. Acceptance angle and numerical aperture,
Pulse dispersion mechanism(Qualitative
only)
THEORY OF RELATIVITY
17. Introduction, Frame of reference, Galilean
transformation
18. Michelson-Morley experiment.
19. Postulates of special theory of relativity,
Lorentz transformations.
20. Length contraction, Time dilation
21.
Mass energy relation
ULTRASONICS
22. Introduction of Ultrasonic wave, Properties of
ultrasonics
23. Production of ultrasonics by magnetostriction
and Piezoelectric methods.
24. Applications of ultrasonics
3rd TERM
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
25. Nuclear forces, Radioactivity definition,
law of radioactive disintegration, half life,
mean life,
radio isotopes and their
uses
26.
decay, decay, - decay
27.
Conservation laws, disintegration
energy, Q value, threshold energy,
28.
Theory of nuclear fission, liquid drop
model, controlled chain reaction and
nuclear reactor
29. Nuclear fusion, Stellar thermo nuclear
reaction, comparison between fission and
fusion
30.
Particle accelerators: linear
accelerator, cyclotron
31.
Radiation detector: ionisation
chamber, GM counter
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In respect of Text and Reference Books, the approved Scheme and Syllabus of 1st
Year of B.Tech Programme may be referred.

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