Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal (MP)
Course: BE201 Engineering Physics Syllabus
Branch: Common Semester BE 1st/2nd semester Syllabus
Branch: Common Semester BE 1st/2nd semester Syllabus
Revised Syllabus and Scheme of Examination Effective from July 2007
Unit I Quantum Physics
Origin of Quantum hypothesis, DeBroglie’s hypothesis of matter wave & its experimental verification. Group and particle velocities & their relations. Uncertainty principle with elementary proof & its application to Electron microscope, Compton effect. Wave function and its physical significance, general idea and application of time dependent and time independent Schrodinger wave equation.
Unit II Wave Optics
Interference: Fresnel's biprism, Interference in thin films, Newton’s rings and Michelson’s interferometer experiments. Diffraction at single slit, double slit and n-slit. Diffraction grating. Rayleigh criterion, resolving power of a telescope, grating and prism. Concept of polarized light, Brewster's laws, Double refraction, Nicol prism, quarter & half wave plate. Idea about circularly & elliptically polarized light.
Unit III Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Structure & Nuclear properties, Quantitative treatment of nuclear models: liquid drop and shell models, Linear Particle accelerator, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Synchrocyclotron, and Betatron, Nuclear cross section, chain reaction, critical size. Application of E = mc2 ,Q-Value, Nuclear fusion & fission, Nuclear reactors, Geiger- Muller Counter, Bainbridge and Auston mass Spectrograph.
Unit IV Semiconductors & Nano-Physics
Free Electron model of solids, Qualitative Analysis of Kronig Penny model ,Effective mass, Fermi level for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors: p-n junctions, Zener break down, photodiode, solar-cells, Hall effect. Elementary idea about Nano structures and Nano materials
UNIT V Laser and Fiber Optics
Laser: Stimulated and spontaneous emission, Einstein’s A & B Coefficients, transition probabilities, active medium, population inversion, pumping, Optical resonators, characteristics of laser beam. Coherence, directionality and divergence. Principles and working of Ruby, Nd:YAG, He-Ne & Carbon dioxide Lasers with energy level diagram.. Fundamental idea about optical fiber, types of fibers, acceptance angle & cone, numerical aperture, V-number, propagation of light through step index fiber (Ray theory) pulse dispersion, attenuation, losses & various uses. Engineering uses & applications of laser and Optical Fiber
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