Physics
Total Marks – 200
Paper II
Marks – 100
Electricity and magnetism
Electric field due to point charges, Gauss’ Law, electric potential and Poisson and Laplace’s equation. Dielectric medium and polarization, Capacitance, moving charges and magnetic field. Ampere’s law, vector potential, magnetic properties of matter. Transient current. Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction, Alternating Current and LRO circuit. Maxwell’s equations, Poynting theorem and Poynting vector
Electronics
Thermionic emission, space charge, diode, triode tetrode, pentode and their static and dynamic characteristics. Amplitude modulation and demodulation or detection. Various basic circuits for rectification, amplification modulation and detection connected with radio receivers and transmission, n and p type semiconductors. Biased function, transistors, common base and common emitter configurations
Atomic physics
Bohr theory and quantum numbers including electron spin. Pauli’s exclusion principle, spectra of simple systems with one or two valence electrons. Photo electric effect. Compton scattering, pair production, Lande’s g factor and Zeeman effect. Raman effect, waves and particles and De Broglie’s hypothesis, Schrödinger wave equation and its application to one dimensional harmic oscillator. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
Nuclear physics
Structure of nuclei: Radioactivity ∞, β and decay. Methods of detection. Mass Spectrometer, accelerators, phenomenon of fission, reactor and nuclear power, nuclear fusion and its application. Elementary particles and their properties