CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KARNATAKA

Kadaganchi, Kalaburagi -585367

School of Engineering
Integrated Engineering Program
II Semester 2016 - 17

Course: Engineering Physics - II Credits: 03

Syllabus:
Unit 1: Maxwell’s equations of Electrodynamics; Wave equation – Plane waves;
Reflection of EM waves at dielectric and metal surfaces – normal incidence case;
Guided EM waves; Microwave resonators.
Unit 2: Wave particle duality – experimental support; Uncertainty Principle;
Schrodinger’s equation – Wave function, its properties and statistical interpretation;
Particle in a Potential Well; Potential Barrier and Quantum Mechanical Tunneling;
Simple Harmonic Oscillator – Qualitative idea of the wave function and energy levels.
Unit 3: Bonds in Solids; Band theory of solids – simple model; Electrons in metals as
Fermi gas – simple theory for electrical conductivity, superconductivity; Bands in
semiconductors; p-n Junction formation and charge transport under bias field;
Working of Photodiodes and Tunnel Diodes .
Unit 4: Nuclear reactions and applications – Types of reactions, conservation laws;
Alpha , Beta and Gamma decay; Radio-isotopes; Fission reactions; Nuclear fusion for
power generation.
Unit 5: Elementary Particles (Qualitative) – forces of nature, Particles and Anti-
particles; Families of Particles; Particle interaction and decays; Quark model; Standard
model.
Unit 6: Nonlinear Dynamics(Qualitative) – ‘Chaos’, bifurcation, strange attractors,
fractals, self-similarity, occurrence in nature.

References:

1. Modern Physics, Kenneth S.Krane, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
2. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I & II Richard P. Feynman, Robert B.
Leighton, Matthew Sands. Hardcover, Addison Wesley; 2 edition (2005).
3. Fundamentals of Physics, Volume 1 David Halliday, Robert Resnick, and Jearl
Walker. Hardcover, Wiley (2007).
4. James Gleick: Chaos - making a new science William Heinemann Ltd. (1988,
Great Britain).
5. David J. Griffiths Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) (Benjamin
Cummings, 1999).