The department stated in the year 1992 with HS course. In the year 1995 UG course with general course. Major course was started in the year 1999 with four faculty members.
1. To offer UG education with major in physics
2. To offer consultancy services to people of fringe area.
3. To act as a mentor to sister institutes.
B.Sc. in Physics with honours/Regular
Department of Physics Programme Name - B.Sc. (Physics)
Programme Outcomes
Knowledge Outcomes
After completing B.Sc. (Physics) Programme students will be able to:
1. Apply the basic principles of Physics to the events occurring around us and also in the world.
2. Try to find out or analyze scientific reasoning for various things.
Skill Outcomes
After completing B.Sc. (Physics) Programme students will be able to:
1. Use of computers and various software and programming skills
2. apply the knowledge to develop the sustainable and eco-friendly technology for pollution free environment
3. collaborate effectively on team-oriented projects in the field of Physics
4. Communicate scientific information in a clear and concise manner both orally and in writing or through audio video presentations
Generic outcomes
Students will
1. develop ability to work in group
2. develop capacity of critical reasoning, judgment and communication skills.
3. Develop abilities for logical thinking
Programme Specific Outcomes
PSO1: Students get acquainted with techniques which are useful in industry.
PSO2: Students get conceptual knowledge of entrepreneurships through the co-curricular activities
PSO3: learn the organizational skills and working in group.
PSO4: Students will be well versed with use of computers
Course outcomes
In each course students will learn different concepts and theories as mentioned below. First Year 2019 (CBCS) PATTERN
Semester I
Course- PHY 111- Mechanics and Properties of Matter
CO1: Application of Newton’s laws of motion to solve various problems related to day today life.
CO2: Concepts like zero work done, conservative forces, mass energy equivalence (E= mc2).
CO3: Effect of force on various types of materials is described and physical properties like elasticity, different moduli etc. along with their relation.
CO4: Examples of surface tension in nature and its applications in our day to day life.
CO5: Concept of viscosity of fluids, Bernoulli’s Equation and its applications.
Course- PHY 112- Physics Principles and Applications
CO1: Students learn about an atom is made up of protons, neutrons and electron, how they arranged to make up an atom. They learn different atomic models, Atomic spectrum and types of spectrum.
CO2: Students learn about Different forces which hold atoms together to form a molecule.
Different types of chemical and physical bonds like ionic, covalent, Van der Waal’s bonds. Energy levels of rotational and vibrational diatomic molecule.
CO3: Students will identify and compare the characteristics of electromagnetic spectrum including speed, wavelength and frequency.
CO4: students will learn common uses and applications of electromagnetic waves.
CO5: students will learn basic principles of Laser, excitation and de-excitation process, pumping scheme, population inversion and metastable state. Characteristics, applications and different types of laser.
Semester II
Course - PHY-121- Heat and Thermodynamics
CO1: To understand various thermodynamic processes like isothermal, isobaric, isochoric processes and laws of thermodynamics.
CO2: To understand the concept of entropy.
CO3:- To understand Carnot’s cycle, Heat engines and Refrigerators.
CO4:- To understand Principle of thermometry and various types of thermometers like Liquid filled thermometers, Gas filled thermometers, Bimetallic thermometers, Platinum resistance thermometer
Course – PHY122 - Electricity and Magnetism
CO1: Students will be able to understand the concept of the electric force, electric field and electric potential for stationary charges. They are able to calculate electric potential and electric field by using Gauss’s law.
CO2: Student will understand the dielectric phenomenon and effect of electric field on dielectric.
CO3: Study the concept of magnetic field, magnetic field for steady currents using Biot-Savart’s and Ampere\'s Circuital laws.
CO4: Student will learn magnetic materials and its properties.
Second Year (2013 pattern)
Semester I
Course - PH 211- Mathematical Methods in Physics
CO 1: Study of de moivre’s theorem includes understanding of determination of power of given complex number.
CO 2: Many times students come across the terms like divergence, curl and gradient but they don’t understand their physical significance. From this course they will learn the concepts to a depth.
CO 3: Students can understand the use of the concept of partial differentiation in solving Physics situations which have more than one variable.
CO 4: Students can also understand the need of complex numbers in solving mathematical equations in different branches of Physics like Electricity and Magnetism, Fluid Dynamics and quantum mechanics.
Course-------PH 212 (A) - Electronics
CO 1: Various network theorems which use to solve problems related to complicated circuits by converting them into simpler circuits. This has wide applications in electronic and transmission circuits.
CO 2:- Knowledge about semiconductors since it is a basic materials used in many electronic components like diode, transistors FET, UJT etc.
CO 3: Characteristics and working of operational amplifiers which are useful in various medical and scientific investigations to amplify the signals.
CO 4:- Generation of high frequency signals using oscillator circuits and their applications in radio and TV communication
CO 5: Concepts of regulated power supply, rectifiers, filters and regulators.
CO 6: An introduction to digital electronics which is useful in digital computers. Also logic gates and their applications.
Course------PH 212 (B) - Instrumentation
CO1:History and need of Instrumentation, Components of measurement system, Standards of Measurement, errors in measurement. Importance and methods of calibration. Static and dynamic characteristics of measurements.
CO2: Transduction principle, types of transducers. Use of transducers in measurement of displacement, force and temperature.
CO3: Comparative study of Pressure scales, pressure units, concept of vacuum, Different pressure measurement systems. Types and use of diaphragms and strain gauges
CO4: Need and use of signal conditioning. Detailed study of construction, working and characteristics of OPAMP. Circuits indicating use of OPAMP for different applications.
Study of filter circuits for use as signal conditioning component
CO5: Methods of analog display and recording. Graphical and Oscillographic recorders.
Semester II
Course- PH221 - Waves, Oscillations and Sound CO1: Learn how does a body oscillate without damping amplitude and what are the necessary conditions for it. CO2: Learn how we can set any object in the forced oscillations that is in continuous motion
CO3: Doppler effect and its use in in day-to-day life. Using this concept students can get idea of expanding universe.
CO4: Studying sound concept we can understand why the sound of male and female are different and the reason behind it.
Course- PH 222- Optics
CO1: Image formation related to geometrical optics, Deviation, Magnification, Concept for Equivalent lens and Cardinal Points
CO2: Different types of monochromatic and chromatic aberrations and Achromatism in lenses
CO3: Construction and working of Simple Microscope, Compound Microscope, Ramsden’s Eyepiece and Huygen’s Eyepiece
CO4: Interference and diffraction of light, Formation of fringes, Resolution
CO5: Concept of Polarization, Double refraction, Construction and working of Nicol Prism
Third Year (2013 pattern)
Semester I
Course - PH 331- Mathematical Methods in Physics
CO1: The three commonly used co-ordinate systems and general curvilinear co-ordinate system.
CO2: Concept of relativity, length contraction, relativistic mass, time dilation and twin paradox.
CO3: Various methods to solve different differential equations.
CO4: Properties of Legendre polynomials, Hermite polynomials and Bessel function. These are useful to solve the problem of linear simple harmonic oscillator in quantum mechanics.
Course - PH 332- Solid State Physics CO: Students will able to study difference between crystalline and amorphous material, crystal structures, miller indices, interplaner distances, interatomic forces and bonds.
From this study students get to learn the basics of solid state physics. CO2: Students will understand Bragg’s diffraction, Bragg’s law. X-ray diffraction and characterization techniques. With the help of this knowledge students know the principles of structures determination by X-ray diffraction method. This would be helpful in performing experiments in nanotechnology. CO3: Students can understand electrical and thermal conductivity of free electron in metals, Energy levels of free electrons in one and three dimensions.
They will learn significance of Pauli’s exclusion principle, Bloch theorem, Fermi energy, and Hall effect and energy bands in materials. CO4: Students can Describe and explain the behaviour of permanent magnet including induced magnetism, behaviour of paramagnetic, diamagnetic, ferromagnetic materials in terms of magnetic domain.
CO5: Students can understand superconducting materials, their properties and technological applications of superconductivity.
Course - PH 333- Classical Mechanics CO1: Students will be able to define, present and demonstrate basic mechanical concepts and their applications used in daily life. CO2: Students can understand the motion of a body, Equations of motions, trajectory of an objects in constant field such as electrical, magnetic field.
With the help of this knowledge students can understand process involved in cathode ray Oscilloscope. CO3: With the help of this knowledge students will understand how to launch rockets and satellites. Motion of planets and satellites and dynamic molecular collisions. How the mechanical concepts used in sports and military. CO4: Students will learn Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations. Canonical transformation, Passion’s Bracket concept.
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