Principles of Physics for B.Sc. CSIT First Semester

1. Rotational Dynamics and Oscillatory Motion teaching hours: 5 hrs Moment of inertia and torque, Rotational kinetic energy, Conservation of angular momentum, Oscillation of spring: frequency, period, amplitude, phase angle and energy 2. Electric and Magnetic Field teaching hours: 5 hrs Electric and magnetic field and potential, Force on current carrying wire, magnetic dipole moment, Force on a moving charge, Hall effect, Electromagnetic waves 3. Fundamentals of Atomic Theory teaching hours: 8 hrs Blackbody radiation, Bohr atom, Spectrum of Hydrogen, Franck-Hertz experiment, de Broglie’s hypothesis and its experimental verification, Uncertainty principle and its origin, matter waves and the uncertainty principle, group velocity. 4. Methods of Quantum Mechanics teaching hours: 5 hrs Schrodinger theory of quantum mechanics and its application, Outline of the solution of Schrodinger equation for H-atom, space quantization and spin, Atomic wave functions 5. Fundamentals of Solid State Physics teaching hours: 6 hrs Crystal structure, Crystal bonding, Classical and quantum mechanical free electron model, Bloch theorem, Kronig-Penny model, Tight-binding approximation, conductors, insulators and semiconductors, effective mass and holes. 6. Semiconductor and Semiconductor devices teaching hours: 8 hrs Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, Electrical conductivity of semiconductors, Photoconductivity, Metal-metal junction: The contact potential, The semiconductor diode, Bipolar junction transistor (BJT), Field effect transistor (FET). 7. Universal Gates and Physics of Integrated Circuits teaching hours: 8 hrs Universal gates, RTL and TTL gates, Memory circuits, Clock circuits, Semiconductor purification: Zone refining, Single crystal growth, Processes of IC production, Electronic component fabrication on a chip. 8. Old Syllabus teaching hours: 0 hrs