Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Paradigm of Physics Courses


Paradigm of Physics Courses

  • Properties of Matter
  • Electricity and Magnetism
  • Heat and Thermodynamics
  • Geometric Optics and Acoustics
  • Electricity and AC Current
  • Physical Optics
  • Physics of Vibrations and Waves
  • Principles of Modern Physics
  • Introduction to Physical Electronics
  • Physics of Semiconductors and Applications
  • Digital Logic Circuits
  • Physical Measurements Using Computer

Properties of Matter

  • Physical quantity
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Newton's laws of motion
  • Work and energy
  • Toughness
  • Viscosity
  • Surface tension

Electricity and Magnetism

  • Columb law and electrostatic fields
  • Electrostatic potential
  • Capacitance and dielectrics
  • Electric Current and DC Circuits
  • Kirchhoff’s Rules
  • Magnetic fields
  • Magnetic forces
  • Electromagnetic induction

Thermodynamics

  • Thermal conduction
  • Kinetic theory of gases
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • Laws of thermodynamics

Geometrical optics and Acoustics

  • The nature and propagation of light
  • Reflection and refraction at plane surface
  • Lenses and Mirrors
  • Eye’s structure and camera
  • Microscopes and Telescopes
  • Doppler effect

Electricity and Alternating current

  • RL and RC Circuits and Stored energy
  • RLC Circuit under different conditions
  • RL and RC Circuit Analysis
  • Analysis of AC Circuits by Complex numbers
  • AC transient current for RL, RC and RLC Circuits

Physical Optics

  • Waves motion and superposition
  • Interference of light waves
  • Diffraction of light waves
  • Polarization
  • Laser
  • Introduction in Optical fibers

Vibration and Waves

  • Simple harmonic motion
  • Damped Simple Harmonic Motion
  • The Forced Oscillator
  • Coupled Oscillations
  • Transverse Wave Motion
  • Longitudinal Waves
  • Waves on Transmission Lines
  • Electromagnetic Waves
  • Waves in More than One Dimension
  • Fourier Methods
  • Waves in Optical Systems
  • Interference and Diffraction
  • Wave Mechanics
  • Non-linear Oscillations and Chaos
  • Non-linear Waves, Shocks and Solitons
  • Ultrasound

Modern physics

  • Principles of modern physics
  • Black Body radiation
  • Planck’s law of radiation and photo-electric effect
  • The hydrogen atom
  • Rutherford model of the atom
  • Bohr’s Theory
  • Somerfield’s Theory
  • Compton effect
  • Dual nature of matter
  • De Broglie Waves
  • Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle
  • Principle of relativity

Physics Electronics

  • Semiconductor diode and applications
  • Bipolar junction transistors
  • Field-effect transistors
  • Biasing of transistors
  • Integrated circuits
  • Operational amplifiers
  • Feedback amplifiers
  • oscillators

Solid-state physics

  • Crystal Structure
  • Reciprocal lattice
  • X-ray diffraction in crystals
  • Lattice vibrations and thermal properties
  • Defects in crystals
  • Point Defects
  • 1D, 2D and 3D Defects
  • Free electron mode and electric properties
  • Theory of dielectrics

Semiconductors and Thin Solid

  • Crystal structure
  • Energy brands
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors
  • Fermi-Dirac Function
  • Density of carriers
  • Carrier Transport
  • Hall effect
  • P-N Junctions
  • I-V and C-V Characteristics
  • Characteristics of Transistors (BJT, MIS)
  • Optoelectronic

Digital and Logic Circuits

  • Basic logic concepts
  • Logic states
  • Number systems
  • Boolean algebra
  • Basic logical operations
  • gates and truth tables
  • Combinational logic
  • Multiplexers and de-multiplexers
  • Encoders and Decoders
  • Adders and subtractors
  • Look-ahead Carry
  • Comparators
  • Programmable logic arrays and memories
  • Design with MSI
  • Logic families
  • Tri-state devices
  • Sequential logic
  • Flip flops
  • Mono-stable multi-vibrators
  • Latches and registers.
  • Counters