EEE Syllabus - Acharya Nagarjuna University

CE/CSE/ECE/EEE/EI/IT/ME– 103ENGINEERING PHYSICS(Common for ALL Branches)L T P M C3 0 0 100 4UNIT-IUltrasonics: Production of Ultrasonics by Piezo electric oscillator method, Detectionby Acoustic grating method, Applications - Pulse echo technique, ultrasonic imagingand some general applications.Applied Optics: Interference: Stokes principle (Phase change on reflection),Interference in thin films due to reflected light (Cosine law), (uses of air films inwedge method and Newton’s rings experiments - qualitative treatments only)Michelson’s interferometer: Principle, construction working and applications(Determination of wavelength of monochromatic source & for resolution of twoclosely lying wavelengths).Lasers: Laser characteristics, Spontaneous and Stimulated emissions, Basicrequirements of a laser, Population inversion – Solid state laser (Ruby laser), Gas(He-Ne) laser, Semiconductor (GaAs) laser, Applications of lasers.Holography: Principle, recording, reproduction and applications.Fiber optics: Structure of optical fiber, Types of optical fibers, Numerical aperture,Fiber optics in communications and advantages.UNIT –IIElectromagnetism : Gauss’s law in electricity (statement & proof), Coulomb’s lawfrom Gauss law, Circulating charges and Cyclotron principle & working, Hall effectand its uses, Gauss law for magnetism, Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction,Lenz’s law, induced electric fields, Inductance, energy stored in a magnetic field,Displacement current, Maxwell’s equations (qualitative treatment), electromagneticwave equation and Velocity, Electromagnetic oscillations(qualitative treatment),Electron Theory of Solids: Failure of classical free electron theory, quantum freeelectron theory, Fermi- dirac (analytical) distribution function and its temperaturedependence, Fermi energy.UNIT-IIIPrinciples of Quantum Mechanics: Dual nature of light, Matter waves &properties, de Broglie’s concept of matter waves, Davisson and Germer experiment,Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and applications (non-existence of electron innucleus, finite width of spectral lines). One dimensional time independentSchrodinger’s wave equation, Physical significance of the wave function, Particle in abox (one dimensional).Band Theory of Solids: Bloch theorem, Kronig-Penny model (Qualitativetreatment), Origin of energy band formation in solids, effective mass of electron,concept of hole.B.Tech.(EEE)/ANU/2011-2012