Bihar Engineering University, Bihar, Mechanical Engineering Semester 1, Physics (Electromagnetism) Syllabus

Unit - 1 ELECTROSTATICS IN VACUUM

Module 1

Waves

1.1 Mechanical Oscillator and Harmonic Oscillator

1.2 Electrical Oscillator

1.3 Damped Simple Harmonic Motion

1.4 Damping Coefficient

1.5 Impedance

1.6 Forced Mechanical And Electrical Oscillators

1.7 Steady State Motion Of Forced Damped Harmonic Oscillator

Unit - 2 ELECTROSTATICS IN A LINEAR DIELECTRIC MEDIUM

UNIT 2

NONDISPERSIVE TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES

2.1 Vibrate the string up and down. The wave that developed due to this vibration is called a transverse wave

2.2 The Wave Equation

2.3 Harmonic Waves Standing Waves and Their Eigen Frequencies

2.4 Logitudinal Wave Acoustics Waves

2.6 Reflection and Transmission of waves at a boundary

2.7 Impedance Matching

Unit - 3 MAGNETOSTATICS

Module 3

Light And Optics

3.1 Light as An Electromagnetic Wave and Fresnel Equations

3.2 Reflection and Transmission Brewster’s Angle

3.3 Total Internal Reflection And Evanescent Wave

3.4 Mirrors and Lenses and Optical Instruments Based on Them

Unit - 4 MAGNETOSTATICS IN A LINEAR MAGNETIC MEDIUM

MODULE 4

WAVE OPTICS

4.1 Huygens’ Principle

4.2 Thomas Youngs Double Slit Experiment

4.3 Newton’s Rings

4.4 Michelson Interferometer

4.5 MachZehnder interferometer

4.6 Fraunhoferdiffraction

4.7 The Rayleigh Criterion

4.8 Superposition Of Waves And Interference Of Light By Wave front Splitting And Amplitude Splitting

4.9 Diffraction Gratings And Their Resolving Power

Unit - 5 FARADAY’S LAW

MODULE 5

LASERS

5.1 Einstein A and B Coefficients Amplification of Light by Population Inversion

5.2 Different types of Lasers

5.3 Properties Of Laser Beams Monochromatic

Unit - 6 DISPLACEMENT CURRENT, MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO TIME-DEPENDENT ELECTRIC FIELD AND MAXWELL’S EQUATIONS

MODULE 6

INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS

6.1 Wave Nature of Particles

6.2 TimeDependent and TimeIndependent Schrodinger Equation For Wave Function

6.3 Born Interpretation

6.4 Probability Current

6.5 Expectation Values

6.6 FreeParticle Wave Function And WavePackets

6.7 Uncertainty Principle

Unit - 7 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

MODULE 7

SOLUTION OF WAVE EQUATION

7.1 Solution of StationaryState Schrodinger Equation for One Dimensional Problems–Particle inA Box

7.2 The Delta Function Potential

7.3 Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

7.5 Particle in a threedimensional box

7.6 SquareWell Potential

7.7 Linear Harmonic Oscillator

7.8FieldIonization and Scanning Tunnelling Microscope

7.9 Tunnelling In Semiconductor Structures