3 hours/week Credit : 3
Physical Optics: Theories
of light: Huygen's
principle and construction. Interference
of light: Young's double slit experiment. Fresnel bi-prism. Newton's
rings. interferometers. Diffraction of light: Fresnel and Fraunhoffer
diffraction, diffraction by single slit, diffraction by double slit,
diffraction gratings, polarization, production and analysis of polarized light,
optical activity, optics of crystals.
Modern
Physics: Michelson
Morley's experiment, Galilean transformation, special theory of relativity,
Lorentz-transformation, relative velocity, length contraction, time dilation,
mass-energy relation. Photo-electric effect. Compton effect, de-Broglie wave,
Bohr's atom model. Radioactive decay, half life, mean life, isotopes, nuclear
binding energy, alpha, beta, gamma decay.
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