Pre-requisites:
Student Learning Outcomes:After the completion of this course students will be able to gain the basic knowledge of EM waves, Opticsand. Relativistic mechanics.
Further they will be able to apply these basic ideas in Engineering applications
Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)
Module I: Wave Optics
Interference:
Coherent Sources, Conditions of Interference; Interference in thin films- parallel and Wedge shaped, Newton’s
rings
Diffraction:
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction,Fraunhofer diffraction at a Single Slit, and N Slits, Plane Transmission 30
grating, Rayleigh criterion and Resolving power of grating.
Polarization:
Birefringence, Nicol prism, Production and Analysis of Plane, Circularly and Elliptically Polarized Light,
Half and Quarter Wave Plates, Optical and Specific Rotation, Laurent half shade and Bi-quartz polarimeter
Scalar and Vector fields, Gradient, Divergence and Curl, Gauss’s and Stoke’s Theorems, Gauss’s Law in
Electrostatics, Differential form of Gauss’s Law, Ampere’s Law, Displacement Current, Maxwell’s Equations 25
in Free Space & in Isotropic media, EM Wave Propagation in Free Space and dielectric media, Poynting
theorem and Poynting vector
Inertial and Non-inertial Frames, Michelson-Morley Experiment, Postulates of Special Theory of Relativity, Lorentz 20
Transformation, Length Contraction and Time Dilation, Addition of Velocities, Mass Energy Equivalence, Variation of
Mass with Velocity.
75 25 100
Components (Drop down) Mid Term Exam Home Assignment Viva Attendance
End Term Examination
Components (Drop down Lab Record Performance Viva Attendance End Term Examination