DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
B.E./B.TECH 2019 SYLLABI
19M102 PHYSICS
3003
CO1 - Learn, understand and apply the concepts of mechanics in various engineering systems
CO2 - Learn, understand the concepts of oscillatory motion and wave motion
CO3 - Learn, understand and apply the concepts of optics used in optical instruments and optical metrology
CO4 – Learn, understand and apply the concepts of heat, heat dissipation in engineering instruments CO5 – Learn, enumerate
and demonstrate the ability to apply the concepts of electromagnetic waves and its propagation in various engineering
structures/systems
MECHANICS: Introduction to vectors – velocity and acceleration vectors in two dimensions. Newton’s laws of motion. Mass, inertia
and force. Using Newton’s second and third laws in two dimensions: free body diagram. Work done by a varying force, work-kinetic
energy theorem. System of particles: centre of mass in one and two dimensions. Rotational motion: Radial and tangential
acceleration, torque, rotation energy, conservation of angular momentum. Gryroscopes and precession. (9)
OSCILLATORY MOTION AND WAVE MOTION: Simple harmonic motion, spring mass system, torsional oscillator. Spring mass
system: Free, damped, forced oscillations and resonance . Wave motion: Plane progressive wave: attenuation of waves,
differential equation and solution of a plance progressive wave. Phase velocity. Superposition of waves and group velocity
(9)
OPTICS: Review of Image formation by lenses, combination of thin and thick lenses. Chromatic and spherical aberrations, methods
to reduce aberrations. Interference: Superposition principle, intensity distribution, condition for interference, coherent and non
coherent source, classification of fringes, system for observin interference phenomena and engineering applications: Interferometric
displacement measurement. Diffraction: Fraunhoffer diffraction for single slit and double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power of a
grating. Image formation system: optical microscope (9)
HEAT: Heat transfer modes: Convection, conduction and radiation. Specific heat capacity. Coefficient of linear thermal expansion.
Measurement of thermal expansion: optical lever and dilatometry methods Thermal stresses in composite structures due to non-
homogeneous thermal expansion. Applications - bimetallic strip, Expansion gaps and rollers in engineering structures. Thermal
conductivity: Differential equation of one dimensional heat flow. Searle's apparatus and Lee's disc apparatus for determination of
thermal conductivity. Applications to refrigerators and ovens. (9)
ELECTROMAGNETISM: Review of definitions of fundamental terms. Permeability. Forces due to currents. Uniform and non-
uniform magnetic fields. Static and time-varying magnetic fields. Electromagnetic induction. Expression for induced emf. Electric
fields definition of fundamental terms. Dielectric constant, Permittivity. Dielectric displacement. Gauss theorem. Maxwell's equations
and interpretation of Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic waves. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through isotropic
media.
(9)
Total = L: 45
TEXT BOOKS
1. Richard Wolfson, “Essential University Physics”, Vols. 1 and 2. Pearson Education, Singapore, 2011.
2. Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, Lewis Ford .A, “University Physics with Modern Physics” , Pearson Education India, 2008.
3. Gaur R K, Gupta S L, “Engineering Physics”, Dhanpat Rai publications, 2013.
REFERENCES
1 Halliday D, Resnick R, Walker J, “Fundamentals of Physics”, Wiley Publications, 2008
2. Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett, “Physics for Scientists and Engineers”, Volume 5, Chapters 40-46, Cengage Learning.
2010.
3. Paul A Tipler and Geene Mosca, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, W.H.Freeman and Company, New York, 2004.
