BE201 Engineering Physics Syllabus Practicals RGPV/RGTU BE 1st/2nd semester Syllabus

Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal (MP)

Course: BE201 Engineering Physics Syllabus
Branch: Common Semester BE 1st/2nd semester Syllabus

Revised Syllabus and Scheme of Examination Effective from July 2007

Related: BE201 Engineering Physics Syllabus (Theory)

List of suggestive core experiments: -
1. Biprism, Newton's Rings, Michelsons Interferometer.
2. Resolving Powers –Telescope, Microscope, and Grating.
3. G.M. Counter
4. Spectrometers-R.I., Wavelength, using prism and grating
5. Optical polarization based experiments: Brewster’s angle, polarimeter etc.
6. Measurements by LASER-Directionality, Numerical aperture, Distance etc.
7. Uses of Potentiometers and Bridges (Electrical)..
8. Experiments connected with diodes and transistor.
9. Measurement of energy band gap of semiconductor.
10. Other conceptual experiments related to theory syllabus.

Reference Books: -
1. Engineering Physics- V. S. Yadava, TMH
2. A T.B. of Optics by Brijlal and Subhraininyan.
3. Optics By Ghatak, TMH
4. Engineering physics by M.N. Avadhanulu and P.G. Kshirsagar. S. Chand & Co.
5. Fundamentals of engineering physics by P. Swarup, Laxmi Publications.
6. Atomic and Nuclear physics by Brijlal and Subraminiyan.
7. Introduction to atomic and nuclear physics- Harvey E. White- East-West Press, New Delhi.
8. Concepts of Modern Physics- Beiser, TMH
9. Laser Electronics – Verdryan, Eastern-Wiley and Sons.

BE201 Engineering Physics Syllabus RGPV/RGTU BE 1st/2nd semester Syllabus

Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal (MP)

Course: BE201 Engineering Physics 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

Reference Books !!! List of Practicals