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This course is designed to introduce the students to the electricity and magnetism:Electricity and Magnetism
# Electromagnetism:
Magnetic fields, Maxwell’s equations, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law.
# Inductance: Self mutual inductance.
# Magnetic properties of matter: Magnetomotive force, magnetic field intensity, permeability and susceptibility, classification of magnetic materials, magnetization curve of ferromagnetic materials, magnetic circuits, magnetostriction.
Optics:
Theories of light:
Hygiene’s principles and constructions.
Interference of light:
Young’s double slit experiment, Fresnel bi-prism, Newton’s ring, interferometers.
Diffraction of light:
Fresnel Fraunhoffer diffraction, diffraction by single slit, diffraction by double slit, diffraction gratings, polarization, production and analysis of polarized light, optical activity, optics of crystals.
Modern physics:
Relativity, Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorenz-Einstein transformation, mass energy relation, quantum effect, photoelectric effect, Compton effect.
Wave mechanics:
De-Brogli wave, correspondence principles, uncertainty principle, atom, Bhor’s theory of one electron atoms, vector atom model.
Radioactivity:
Radioactive decay, half-life, law of successive disintegration, radioactive equilibrium, the nucleus, properties of nucleus, binding energy, nuclear reactions, nuclear reactors.
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