B.E First year 1st semester syllabus for Engineering Physics - I by Anna Univ

PH2111	ENGINEERING PHYSICS – I

UNIT I     ULTRASONICS                                                                                                 9

Introduction – Production – magnetostriction effect - magnetostriction generator- piezoelectric effect - piezoelectric generator- Detection of ultrasonic waves properties – Cavitations - Velocity measurement – acoustic grating - Industrial applications – drilling, welding, soldering and  cleaning – SONAR - Non  Destructive Testing – pulse echo system through transmission and reflection modes -  A,B and C –scan displays, Medical applications - Sonograms

UNIT II     LASERS                                                                                                            

Introduction – Principle of Spontaneous emission and stimulated emission. Population inversion, pumping. Einsteins A and B coeffcients  - derivation. Types of lasers – He-Ne,CO2, Nd-YAG, Semiconductor  lasers (homojunction & heterojunction) Qualitative Industrial Applications - Lasers in welding, heat treatment, cutting – Medical application - Holography (construction & reconstruction).

UNIT III     FIBER OPTICS & APPLICATIONS                                                                

Principle and propagation of light in optical fibres – Numerical aperture and Acceptance angle - Types of optical fibres (material, refractive index, mode) – Double crucible technique of fibre drawing - Splicing, Loss in optical fibre – attenuation, dispersion, bending - Fibre optical communication system  (Block  diagram)  -  Light sources - Detectors - Fibre optic sensors – temperature & displacement - Endoscope.

UNIT IV      QUANTUM PHYSICS                                                                                    

Black body radiation – Planck’s  theory (derivation) – Deduction of Wien’s displacement law and Rayleigh – Jeans’ Law from Planck’s theory – Compton effect. Theory and experimental verification – Matter waves – Schrödinger’s wave equation – Time independent and time dependent equations – Physical significance of wave function – Particle in a one dimensional box - Electron microscope - Scanning electron microscope - Transmission electron microscope.

UNIT V     CRYSTAL PHYSICS                                                                                       

Lattice – Unit cell – Bravais lattice – Lattice planes – Miller indices – d spacing in cubic lattice – Calculation of number of atoms per unit cell – Atomic radius – Coordination number – Packing factor for SC, BCC, FCC and HCP structures – NaCl, ZnS, diamond and graphite structures – Polymorphism and allotropy - Crystal defects – point, line and surface defects- Burger vector.

                                                                                                                           TOTAL: 45 PERIODS 

 TEXT BOOKS:

1.  R. K. Gaur and S.C. Gupta, ‘Engineering Physics’ Dhanpat Rai Publications, New

Delhi(2003)

2.  M.N.  Avadhanulu  and  PG  Kshirsagar,  ‘A  Text  book  of  Engineering  Physics’, S.Chand and company, Ltd., New Delhi, 2005.

REFERENCES:

1.  Serway and Jewett, ‘Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics’, 6th

Edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Indian reprint (2007)

2.  Rajendran, V and Marikani A, ‘Engineering Physics’ Tata McGraw Hill Publications

Ltd, III Edition, New Delhi, (2004).

3.  Palanisamy, P.K., ‘Engineering Physics’ Scitech publications, Chennai, (2007).

4.  Jayakumar. S, ‘Engineering Physics’, R.K. Publishers, Coimbatore, (2003).

 5.  Chitra Shadrach and Sivakumar Vadivelu, ‘Engineering Physics’, Pearson Education,

New Delhi, (2007).

This is the B.E 1st year mathematics syllabus for all branches like CSE, IT, EEE, ECE, CIVIL, MECH & BIO-TECH. All the best!