PHY 163: Waves & Oscillations, Physical Optics and Wave Mechanics (IPE).

3.00 Credit, 3 hrs. /week

Waves & Oscillations: Differential equation of a simple Harmonic Oscillator, Total energy and average energy, Combination of simple harmonic oscillations, Lissajous' figures, Spring- mass system, Calculation of time period of torsional pendulum, Damped oscillation, Determination of damping co-efficient. Forced oscillation, Resonance, Two-body oscillations, Reduced mass, differential equation of a progressive wave, Power and intensity of wave motion, Stationary wave, Group velocity and phase velocity

Physical Optics: Theories of light; Interference of light, Young's double slit experiment, Displacement of fringes and its uses, Fresnel Bi-prism, Interference at wedge shaped films, Newton's rings, Interferometer; Diffraction of light; Fresnel and Fraunhoffer diffraction, diffraction by single slit, Diffraction from a circular aperture, Resolving power of optical instruments, Diffraction at double slit and N-slits-diffraction grating; Polarization; Production and analysis of polarized light, Brewster's Law, Malus Law, Polarization by double refraction, Retardation plates, Nicol prism, Optical activity, Polarimeters, Polartoid.

Wave Mechanics: Principles of statistical physics, Probabilities, Classical statistics, Quantum statistics, Bose-Einstein statistics, Fermi- Dirac statistics and their applications, Fundamental postulates of wave mechanics, Time dependent Schrodinger equation, Schrodinger equation for one-electron atom and its solution.