Physics

B. Sc. Part - I (NEEP – 2020)

PHYSICS PART - I

COURSE OUTCOME

Paper I: DSC A1 MECHANICS -I

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

1. Students are able to understand and identify scalar and vector physical quantities in mechanics.

2. Students are able to understand and apply vector algebraic methods to elementary exercises in mechanics.

3. Students are able to understand and identify degree and order of given differential equations.

4. Students are able to understand the conceptual evaluation of conservation laws of momentum and energy for both single and system of particles.

5. Students are able to understand and apply basics concepts and methods in mechanics to both theoretical and experimental domains revealing analytical as well as numerical skills.

 

Paper II: DSC A2 MECHANICS -II

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

1. Students are able to understand and apply Newtons Law of Gravitation to celestial objects.

2. Students are able to understand geometry of planetary orbits under the action of central force.

3. Students are able to solve numerical problems based on Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion.

4. Students are able to understand simple concepts like weightlessness, Geosynchronous satellite and GPS.

5. Students are able to setup differential equation for simple harmonic motion and its allied cases.

6. Students are able to calculate time average of KE, PE and TE.

7. Students are able to revise basic concepts as stress, strain and elastic concept of elasticity.

8. Students are able to derive elastic constants for beam supported at both ends and at one end.

9. Students are able to derive elastic constant (eta) of a wire under torsional oscillations (Searl’s Method).

10. Students are able to explain the phenomena of surface tension on the basis of molecular forces.

11. Students are able to derive the relation between surface tension and excess pressure.

12. Students are able to perform an experiment to determine ST by Jaeger’s method.

13. Students are able to discuss and state the factors affecting the surface tension.

14. In general students are capable of correlating above concepts and methods to both theoretical and experimental domains revealing analytical as well as numerical skills.

 

Paper III: DSC B 1Electricity and Magnetism-I

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1. Students are able to understand the physical significance of gradient, divergence and curl.

2. Students are able to apply concepts in vector calculus such as gradient, divergence and curl related to vector and scalar fields using Gauss, Stokes and green’s theorem.

3. Students are able to understand and apply concepts of electrostatic field, potential to point charges, electric dipole and geometrically regular charged bodies.

4. Students are able to understand and apply concepts of capacitor to isolated conductor, parallel plates, cylindrical and spherical capacitors and allied modifications in it.

5. Students are able to understand and apply concept of energy density in electric field.

6. Students are capable of applying above concepts to solve numerical exercise in electronics.

Paper IV: DSC B2Electricity and Magnetism-II

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1. Students are able to understand importance of complex numbers in analysis of AC Circuits containing Inductance (L) Capacitor (C) and Resistance (R) and their various configurations.

2. Students are able to identify and apply the concepts in AC circuits such as Impedance (Z), Reactance (X_L) and Capacitance (X_C), Admittance, Susceptance and Quality Factor (Q).

3. Students are able to understand and design AC Bridge: Owen’s Bridge.

4. Students reveal mastery in basic terminology in network analysis for further studies.

5. Students are able to state and apply Network theorems to simple circuits.

6. Students are able to understand basic working principle of Ballistic galvanometer.

7. Students are able to define constants of BallisticGalvanometer.

8. In general, students are capable of applying above concepts in network in network analysis to both theoretical and experimental domains.

9. Students are able to understand simple elementary concepts such as magnetization and intensity of magnetization.

10. Students are able to state Biot – Savart’s law and are capable to apply it to straight, circular wires and solenoid.

11. Students are able to understand concept of magnetic vector potential along with Ampere’s circuital law.

12. Students are able to understand the explanation of the phenomena of hysteresis in magnetism.

13. Students are able to discriminate different magnetic materials based on their characteristic properties.

 

Paper V: DSC – C1Thermal Physics & Statistical Mechanics-I

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1. Students are able to understand concepts of Kinetic Theory of Gases and Thermometry.

2. Students are able to understand Mean free path and expression for mean free path.

3. Students are able to understand distribution of velocities.

4. Students are able to understand Transport phenomena.

5. Students are able to understandCoefficient of viscosity, Thermal conductivity and Diffusion of gases.

6. Students are able to understand the law of equipartition of energy.

7. Students are able to understand principles of thermometry.

8. Students are able to understand construction and working of different types of thermometers.

9. Students are able to understand Thermocouple.

10. Students are able to understand the Thermister as thermometer.

 

Paper VI: DSC – C2Waves and Optics-I

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1.Students are able to understand the concepts of superposition principle.

2. Students are able to understand superposition of two collinear harmonic oscillations.

3. Students are able to study the use of Lissajous figures.

4. Students are able to understand concepts of coupled oscillations.

5. Students are able to understand the frequency of coupled oscillatory system.

6. Students are able to know normal modes and transfer of energy.

7. Students are able to understand wave motion and Ultra sonic waves.

8. Students are able to study travelling and standing waves.

9. Students are able to understand production, detection and applications of Ultrasonic waves.

10. Students are able to understand concept of Sound and Acoustics of buildings.

11. Students are able to understand Transducers and their characteristics.

12. Students are able to understand some definitions of Sound.

13.Students are able to understand Reverberations and Reverberations formula.

14. Students are able to study Acoustics of buildings.

15. Students are able to understand Viscosity of Liquid.

16. Students are able to study variation of Viscosity.

17. Students are able to understand Physics of low pressure.

18. Students are able to study different types of vacuum pumps and vacuum gauge.

 

Paper VII: DSC – D1Thermal Physics and Statistical Mechanics-II

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1. Students are able to understand the concepts of Thermodynamic Potentials, Theory of radiation, Classical statistics and Quantum Statistics.

2. Students are able to understand the thermodynamic potentials.

3. Students are able to understand the Maxwell’s thermodynamical relations.

4. Students are able to understand Joule Thomson effect.

5. Students are able to understand Clausius - Clapeyron equation.

6. Students are able to derive the expression for Cp – Cv and Cp / Cv.

7. Students are able to understand the Tds equations.

8. Students are able to understand Black Body Radiation and its importance.

9. Students are able to understand theBlack Body Radiation spectrum.

10. Students are able to understand Black Body Radiation concept of energy density.

11. Students are able to understand the deduction of Wien’s Distribution law, Rayleigh -Jean’s  Law, Stefan Boltzmann Law and Wien’s Displacement Law from Planks Law.

12. Students are able to understand Phase space, Microstates and Macrostates, Accessible Microstates.

13. Students are able to understand the Priori Probability and Thermodynamic Probability.

14. Students are able to derive the Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution Law.

15. Students are able to understand the evaluation of constants ∝  and β.

16. Students are able to understand Entropy and Thermodynamic Probability.

17. Students are able to understand the Bose – Einstein’s Distribution Law.

18. Students are able to understand Photon Gas.

19. Students are able to understand Fermi Dirac Distribution Law.

20. Students are able to understand Electron Gas.

21. Students are able to understand the comparison ofMaxwell Boltzmann, Bose – Einstein and Fermi Dirac distribution.

 

Paper VIII: DSC – D2Waves and Optics-II

Theory: 30 Hours Marks - 50 (Credits: 02)

 

1.Students are able to understand basic concepts of Cardinal Points of an optical system.

2. Students are able to study relation between focal length and refractive indices.

3. Students are able to understand Resolving power of an optical instruments.

4. Students are able to study Resolving power of Prism and Grating.

5. Students are able to understand basic concepts of Polarization of light.

6. Students are able to study production and detection of circularly and elliptically polarized light.

7. Students are able to understand basic concepts of Interference of light.

8. Students are able to understand division of wave front and amplitude.

9. Students are able to study application of division of amplitude.

10. Students are able to understand Diffraction and types of Diffraction.

11. Students are able to study elementary theory of plane Diffraction Grating.

12. Students are able to understand Zone Plate and Fresnel’s Diffraction at straight edge