Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Physics: Electricity and Magnetism


-- Electric Charges and Fields
- Electric Charge
- Conductors, Insulators, and Induction
- Electric Field
- Columb's Law and Electrostatic fields
- Electric Field Lines
- Electric Dipoles
- Gauss's Law and Electric Flux

-- Electric potential
- Electric potential Energy
- Determining Field from potential
- Equipotential Surfaces and Conductors
- Applications of Electrostatics

-- Capacitance
- Capacitors and Capacitance
- Energy Stored in a Capacitor
- Capacitors with Dielectrics

-- Current and Resistance
- Electric Current
- Resistivity and Resistance
- Ohm's Law
- Electrical Energy and Power

-- Direct Current Circuits (DC)
- Electromotiv Force
- Kirchhoff’s Rules
- Electrical Measuring Instruments
- RC Circuits

-- Magnetic Forces and Fields
- Magnetism
- Magnetic Fields and Lines
- Magnetic Force
- Force and Torque on Current Loop
- The Hall Effect
- Sources of Magnetic Fields
- Ampère’s Law

-- Electromagnetic Induction
- Faraday’s Law
- Lenz's Law
- Motional Emf
- Induced Electric Fields
- Electric Generators and Back Emf
- Applications of Electromagnetic Induction

-- Inductance
- Mutual Inductance
- Self-Inductance and Inductors
- Energy in a Magnetic Field
- RL Circuits
- Oscillations in LC Circuit
- RLC Series Circuits

-- Alternating Current Circuits (AC)
- AC Sources
- Simple AC Circuits
- RLC Series Circuits with AC
- Power in an AC Circuit
- Resonance in an AC Circuit
- Transformers

-- Electromagnetic Waves
- Maxwell’s Equations
- Plane Electromagnetic Waves
- Energy Carried by Electromagnetic Waves
- Momentum and Radiation Pressure
- Electromagnetic Spectrum

Friday, August 18, 2017

Solid-state Physics and Semiconductors Topics


-- 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
- Crystal Structure and Energy bands
- 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

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Modern Physics Main Topics


- Before Modern physics
--Newtonian Mechanics
--Maxwell's Equations 

- Principle of Relativity
--Invariance of Physical Laws
--Relativity of Simultaneity
--Time Dilation
--Length Contraction
--Lorentz transformation
--Relativistic Velocity Transformation
--The Relativistic Doppler Effect
--Relativistic Momentum
--Relativistic Energy

- Photons and Matter waves
--Blackbody Radiation
--Planck’s law of radiation
--Photoelectric Effect
--Compton Effect
--Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom
--De Broglie's Matter Waves
--Wave-Particle Duality

- Quantum Mechanics 
--Wave Functions
                --The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
--The Schrӧdinger Equation
--The Quantum Particle in a Box
--The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator