Physics Punjab PMS Paper II Syllabus

Paper – ll Total 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, common emitter and common collector configurations OP Amplifier; characteristics, modes of operation, applications number systems: decimal, octal and Hexadecimal; Binary code, Binary arithmetic, BCD code, and parity logic gates Boolean identities; De Morgan’s theorems: logic simplification; Combinational logic circuits: decoders, parity generator and checker circuits, flip flops:RS, JK and Dtype.

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; Waves and particles and De Broglie’s Hypothesis; Schrodinger wave equation and its application to one dimensional harmonic oscillator. Heisenberg’s uncertainly principle.

Nuclear Physics

Structure of Nuclei; Radioactivity , , and decay. Methods of detection, Mass Spectrometer. Accelerators. Phenomenon of fission; reactor and nuclear power, nuclear fusion and its application; Nuclear models; Elementary particles and their properties.

SUGGESTED READINGS

1. Perspectives of Modem Physics, A.Beiser.

2. Fundamentals of Physics, Halliday & Resnick.

3. Introduction to Electromagnetic fields and Waves. D. Corson & P .Lorrain.

4. Engineering Electronics. J.D. Ryder.

5. Semiconductor Electronics. J.F.Gibbons.

6. Physics Course. Berkeley.

7. Heat and Thermodynamics. W. Zemansky.

8. Nuclear Physics, W.E. Burcham.

9. Nuclear Physics, Kaplan

10. Fundamentals of digital electronics, Floyd

11. Waves & Vibrations, Pain