Engineering Physics Syllabus - BEX (TU)

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  1. Oscillation: (7 hours)
    1. Mechanical Oscillation: Introduction
    2. Free oscillation
    3. Damped oscillation
    4. Forced mechanical oscillation
    5. EM Oscillation: Free, damped and Forced electromagnetic oscillation
  2. Wave motion (2 hours)
    1. Waves and particles,
    2. Progressive wave,
    3. Energy, power and intensity of progressive wave
  3. Acoustics (3 hours)
    1. Reverberation,
    2. Sabine’ Law
    3. Ultrasound and its applications
  4. Physical Optics (12 hours)
    1. Interference,
      1. Intensity in double slit interference,
      2. Interference in thin films,
      3. Newton’s rings,
      4. Hadinger fringes
    2. Diffraction,
      1. Fresnel and Fraunhoffer’s diffraction,
      2. Intensity due to a single slit,
      3. Diffraction grating,
      4. x-ray diffraction, x-ray for material test
    3. Polarization,
      1. Double refraction,
      2. Nichol prism, wave plates,
      3. Optical activity, specific rotation
  5. Geometrical Optics (3 hours)
    1. Lenses, combination of lenses,
    2. Cardinal points,
    3. Chromatic aberration
  6. Laser and Fiber Optics (4 hours)
    1. Laser production,
      1. He-Ne laser,
      2. Uses of laser
    2. Fiber Optics,
      1. Self focusing,
      2. Applications of optical fiber
  7. Electrostatics (8 hours)
    1. Electric charge and force,
    2. Electric field and potential,
    3. Electrostatic potential energy,
    4. Capacitors, capacitor with dielectric,
    5. Charging and discharging of a capacitor
  8. Electromagnetism (11 hours)
    1. Direct current: Electric current,
      1. Ohm’s law, resistance and resistivity,
      2. Semiconductor and superconductor
    2. Magnetic fields:
      1. Magnetic force and Torque,
      2. Hall effect,
      3. Cyclotron, synchrotron,
      4. Biot-savart law,
      5. Ampere’s circuit law; magnetic fields straight conductors,
      6. Faraday’s laws, Induction and energy transformation, induced field,
      7. LR circuit, induced magnetic field,
      8. Displacement current
  9.  Electromagnetic waves (5 hours)
    1. Maxwell’s equations,
    2. Wave equations, speed,
    3. E and B fields,
    4. Continuity equation,
    5. Energy transfer
  10. Photon and matter waves (5 hours)
    1. Quantization of energy
    2. Electrons and matter waves
    3. Schrodinger wave equation
    4. Probability distribution
    5. One dimensional potential well
    6. Uncertainty principle
    7. Barrier tunneling

Text and Reference Books

  1. Halliday, Resnick, Walker, “Fundamentals of Physics’, John Wiley & Sons. lnc.
  2. Sapkota, Pokharel, Bhaftarai, “Fundamentals of Engineering Physics”, Benchmark Publication.
  3. Brij Lal and Subrahmanyam, ‘A text book of Optics”, S. Chand Publisher.
  4. A. S. Basudeva, ‘Modern Engineering Physics”, S. Chand Publisher.
  5. R. K. Caur and S. L. Gupta, “Engineering Physics’, Dhanpat Publisher.
  6. Brij Lal and Subrahmanyam, ‘Waves and Oscillation”, S. Chand publisher.
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  • Short Name N/A
  • Course code SH-402
  • Semester First Semester
  • Full Marks 80
  • Pass Marks 32
  • Credit 3 hrs
  • Elective/Compulsary Compulsary