

UNIT
I
MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY
Centre of gravity - centre of gravity of a solid hemisphere
Hollow hemisphere - Tetrahedron and solid cone - Friction
- Laws of Friction - Cone of Friction - angle of Friction
- Equilibrium of a body in a Inclined plane - Impulse
- Impact Laws of Impact - Direct and oblique impact
- impact between two spheres - Loss of Kinetic Energy
- Movement of Inertia - Angular momentum and Kinetic
Energy of a revolving body - Moment of Inertia of a
sphere, shell and cylinder - compound pendulum - Newton's
laws and their limitations - postulates of special theory
of relativity - Lorentz Transformation equations and
its applications - variation of Mass with velocity -
Mass - energy equivalance - Physical significance.
UNIT
II
PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Modulur of Elasticity - Relations - couple per unit
twist Torsional oscillation - Bending of beams - Unifirm
and Non uniform Bending - Elastic constants and their
determinations Kepaler's Laws - Gravitational conshytant
and their determination variation of 'g' - Viscosity
of liquids - Highly viscous liquids stokes and searles
method. Lubricants - surface Tension - capillary rise
- Method of drops - Surface Tension of mercury - quincke's
Method - Laws of osmotic pressure and experimental determination
- Ficks laws of diffusion Analog with heat conduction
- Determination of diffusivity - Applications.
UNIT
III
HEAT AND THERMODYNAMICS
Specific heat capacity of gasses - Mayer's relation
- Experimental determination of CP and CV - Amagat and
Andraw's Experiment - Vanderwaal's equation - critical
constants and vanderwaals constant - Merits and demerits
- J K effect - Theory and experiment - Lique faction
of gasses - Hydrogen, oxygen, air, Helium - Thermnal
conductivity - Forbe's method - stefan's law experimental
determination - solar constant - Temperature of the
sun.
First law and second laws of thermodynamics - Isothermal
and adiabatic change - carnot's engine - carnot cycle
and Carnot's therorem - Entrophy - reversible and irreversible
process - Maxwell's thermodynamical relations and its
applications Third law of thermodynamics - Debye's theory
of specific heat.
UNIT
IV
WAVES AND OSCILLATIONS
Simple harmonic motion - Composition of two SHMS along
a straight line and at right angles - Lissajou's figures
- Laws of transverse vibrations - verification by sonometer
and Melde's string - Forced vibrations and resonance
- Beats - Dopplor effect velocity of sound insolids
and gasses - theory and experiment - ultrasonics - production,
properties and applications - Acoustics of buildings.
UNIT
V
OPTICS
Defects of images - spherical aberration - enromatie
aberration and their rectifications - eyepiece - Ramsden's
and Huygen's eyepieces - interference - colours of thin
films - Newton's rings - theory and experiment - diffraction
- Fressnel and Fraunhofer types - Zone plate and diffraction
grating - Prism spectra and grating spectra - dispersive
and resolving power of a grating - Double refraction
- Huygen's explanation - Nicol prism - Quarter and half
wave plates - production and detection of plane, circular
and elliptically polarised light - optical activity
- Determination of specific rotatory power - polarimeter.
UNIT
VI
SPECTROSCOPPY
UV and IR Spectroscopy - production, detection and applicaiton
- Raman effect - Explanation on the basis of quantum
theory - Experimental arrangements - Application of
Raman effect - Optical fiber - fiber optic sensors -
Fibre optic communication systems and their advantages
- Lasers - stimulated emission - population inverstion
- Ruby and Neon Lasers and applications.
UNIT
VII
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Coublom's law - Permitivity of free space - relative
permitivity - electric field - Intensity of field due
to a point charge - Guass theorem and its application
- Electric potential - relation between potential and
intensity - Electric dipole moment - potential and intensity
due to a dipole- Electical images and its applications
- capacitance - capacity of a spherical, parallel and
cylinderical capacitors - Energy of a charge capacitor
- Electrometers - measurement of potential and dielectric
constant - ohm's law - Resistivity and conductivity
- Internal resistance of a cell - EMF and Potential
difference - Thermo Electricity - Peltier and Thomson
Co Efficients - Laws of Electrolysis - Conductivity
of an electrolyte 0 Arrheinius theory of electrolytic
conduction - calculation of emf a of Daneil cell as
reversible cell.
Magnetic field arround a current carrying conductor
- Biot and savart's law Ampere's law of magnetic force
due to a current - Force between two current carrying
parallel conductions Force on an electron moving in
a magnetic field - Electron microscope - Faraday's laws
of elctromagnetic induction - self and mutual inductance
- Induction coils and its uses - Eddy currents - Transformers
- Energy losses - Skin effect - Advantages of AC distribution
over DUC - Dynamos and motors
Magnetic poles - Magnetic moments - susceptibility relation
between susceptibility and permeability - Hysteresis
- Dia, para, ferra magnetism - Electromagnetic waves
in free space - Velocity of light.
UNIT
VIII
ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS AND ELECTRONICS
Kirchoff's laws for a loop and a junction - Measurements
of circuit parameters (R,L and C) - AC circuits - complex
impedance and phasor diagram - R-L and R-C, Circuits
- Series and parallel resonant circuits - Sharpness
or resonance q factor - Tuned transformer.
Semiconductors - Energy bank theory of solid insulators
conductors and semiconductors - intrinsic and extrinsic
semiconductors - Electrons and holes as charge carriers
- P-type and n-type semiconductors - Junction diodes
- Characteristic curve of a diode - Diode applications
- Junction transistors - V - I characteristic of transistors
- Rectifier, Amplifier and or oscillator circuits -
AM and FM transmission with block diagrams - Basic principles
of super hetrodyne receiver with block diagram - photo
conductive cell - photo diode - solar cell - LED and
LCD - construction and working.
T.V. Camera - Vertical and Horizontal scanning - T.V.
Transmission and reception with block diagrams - T.V.
Antenna (Yogi type) - Colour TV - Three colour theory
- Radar - radar becon - Uses of radar.
Logic circuits - AND, OR, NOT NAND, NOR and EX-OR gates
- Truth tables - Multivibrators - Flip flap circuits.
UNIT
IX
MODERN PHYSICS
Canal rays - e/m of positive ions - Thomson's parabola
method - Aston's mass spectrograph - Plank's quantum
theory of black body radiation - Photoelectric effect
- photo electric multipliers - Eintein's equation for
photo electric effect - Millikan's experiment - Determination
of plank's constant.
Bohr's theory of hydrogen atom sepectra of Hydrogen
and Hydrogen like atoms - Rydberg's constant - stationary
states - spacial quantisation - Sommer field atommodel
- orbital quantum numbers - Electronic structres - Puuli's
exclusion principle - Examples of electronic configuration
- Magnetic moment due to orbital motion and electron
spin - Bohr magneton - Vector atom model - Experimental
verification - Fine structure of sodium D Line - Seeman
effect - Anamalovs zeeman effect - Therorectical explanation
- Wave nature of particles - De Broglie waves - Davisson
and germer experiments - waves and particle duality
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle - Schrodinger equation
- Probability amplitude - Particle in a box (one dimension
only)
UNIT
X
NUCLEAR AND SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Properties of nucleus - size, charge, mass and spin
- Nuclear magnetic dipole moment - Binding energy -
Packing fractions - Nuclear forces - Nuclear models
- shell model and liquid drop model - Nuclear reactions
- induced ratio activity - Artificial transmutation
Techniques - Application of Radio isotopes - Discovery,
Production and detection of neutron - Accelerattors
- Betatron - Proton Synchotron - Particle Detectors
- Ionization chamber - GM counter - Elementary particle
- lBaryons and Leptons - Cosmicrays.
Structure of crystals - periodicity and plane in crystale
- symmetry elements and symmettry groups - classificatiodn
of crystals unit cell Bond and crystal types - ionic,
covalent, metallic and Vanderwall's.
X-rays - Bragg's law and absorption of X rays - Mosley's
law - complon effect.
|