Physics
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The official GTU curriculum for Physics (subject code BE01000021) as prescribed for Common · Semester 1 divides the course into 6 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE01000021)Unit 1 PROPERTIES OF MATTER
- Stress – Strain – Hooke’s law – Elastic Behaviour of Material – Young’s modulus by cantilever depression – Non-uniform bending – Uniform bending- Application -I-shaped girders. Torsional Pendulum – Couple per unit twist of a wire
- Time period
- Application- Determination of Rigidity Modulus
Unit 2 WAVES, MOTION AND ACOUSTICS
- Simple Harmonic motion
- Damped and undamped vibration
- Damped harmonic motion
- Force vibration and amplitude resonance
- Velocity resonance and energy intake
- Wave motion
- transverse and longitudinal vibration
- Sound absorption and reverberation
- Sabine's formula and usage (excluding derivation)
- Acoustic of building
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: ALL Course / Subject Code : BE01000021 Course / Subject Name : Physics Ultrasonic waves - Properties - Generation – Piezoelectric method – Detection- Kundt’s tube Application of Ultrasonics in industries – NDT
Unit 3 OPTICS
- Huygens' Principle: Fundamental principle for wave propagation. Superposition of Waves: Basic principle for understanding interference and diffraction. Explanation of constructive and destructive interference. Applications in thin film interference
- such as soap bubbles and oil films. Young’s double slit experiment. Newton’s rings
- Michelson Interferometer Anti-reflection coating. Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction– diffraction due to ‘n’ slits- plane transmission grating. Rayleigh criterion for limit of resolution - resolving power of grating
Unit 4 QUANTUM PHYSICS
- Black body Radiation-Planck’s law Energy distribution function
- Wave-particle duality-de Broglie matter waves Concept of the wave function and its physical significance – Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Schrodinger’s wave equation – Time-independent and Time- dependent equations – Particle in a one-dimensional rigid box – tunneling (Qualitative) – Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
Unit 5 LASERS
- Properties of Laser
- Einstein’s theory of matter radiation: A and B coefficients
- Amplification of light by population inversion
- Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: ALL Course / Subject Code : BE01000021 Course / Subject Name : Physics Different types of lasers
- Gas lasers (He-Ne)
- Solid-state lasers (Ruby laser)
- Properties of laser beams: Mono-chromaticity
- directionality and brightness
- laser speckles
- Applications of lasers in science
- engineering, and medicine
Unit 6 NEW ENGINEERING MATERIALS SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
- Introduction of Group IV elements
- Concept of carriers
- Concept of bands and band gap, P-type
- N-type materials Introduction to P-N Junction Diode and I-V characteristics
- Zener diode and its characteristics SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS: Introduction – Properties Meissner effect Type I & Type II superconductors Applications
- NANOMATERIALS: Introduction Synthesis of nano materials – Top down and Bottom up approach Ball milling PVD method Applications
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