Five year integrated MSc Degree Course in Photonics.pdf

Electric field: field lines, field due to point charge, electric dipole, line of charge and charged
disc, point charge in an electric field, dipole in an electric field.
Gauss' Law: Flux of electric field, Gauss Law, Gauss' law in cylindrical planar and spherical
symmetry
MODULE 2
Electric potential, equipotential surfaces, Potential due to point charge, group of point charges
and due to electric dipole, Van de Graff generator, Capacitance, capacitors in series and parallel
connections, storing energy in an electric field, capacitor with dielectric.
Electric Current, current density, Resistance and Resistivity, Ohm's Law, Energy and power in
electric circuits, semiconductors, emf, potential differences, RC circuits.
MODULE 3
Magnetic Field, the definition of B, Hall effect„ Magnetic force on a current carrying wire, torque
and current on a current loop, magnetic dipole, Ampere's Law, Solenoids
Faraday's Law of induction, Lenz's Law, induced electric field, Inductance, Self and Mutual
induction, RL circuits, Energy stored in a magnetic field, Magnetism of earth, Para, Dia and Ferro
magnetism.
MODULE 4
LCR oscillators, Damped and forced LCR oscillators, Resonance, Series and parallel LCR circuits.
Alternating currents, Transformer-characteristics, equivalence circuits, design and construction
of transformer, transmission of electric current
DC and AC generators, single and three phase generators, choke coil and its uses, Power factor,
AC and DC bridges, Anderson's Bridge.
Constant voltage and current sources, BG, Multimeter.
Advanced Reading : Bio-electricity, signal propagation through nerve cells, EEG
REFERENCES
Fundamentals of Physics —Resnik, Halliday and Walker, John Wiley & Sons, 4th Edition
(1994)
Electricity and Magnetism- D N Vasudeva, S.Chand and Company, (2002) (Text).
Basic electrionics — B L Thereja, S Chand and company, 5 th Edition (2003)
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol II — Feynman, Leighton, Sands, Narosa Publishers (2003)
5. Electricity and Magnetism — R Murugesan, S Chand and Company, 4th Edition ( 2001).
MODULE 1
CEL 1103 OPTICS I - GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
Nature of light, Light as waves, rays and photons, Refractive index, velocity of light. Foucolt's,
Anderson's, Houston's and Kerr Cell methods to measure velocity of light. Photometry-
Radiomertic and Photometric units, inverse square law, Lambert's Law, Lummer, Flicker and
photovoltaic photometers.
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