HS1102 ENGINEERING PHYSICS SYLLABUS

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Regulations 2007 Curriculum SEMESTER I
Common to all B.E. / B.Tech. (Except B.E. Marine Engineering)
HS1102 ENGINEERING PHYSICS I

UNIT – I PROPERTIES OF MATTER AND HYDRODYNAMICS (9)
Properties of matter: Stress – Strain – Hooke’s Law – Types of moduli of elasticity –
Torsional pendulum – Determination of Rigidity modulus of a wire – Bending of beams –
Expression for bending moment – Measurement of Young’s modulus by uniform and
Non-uniform bending.

Hydrodynamics: Stream line flow – Turbulent flow – Poiseuille’s formula for flow of
liquid through a capillary tube – Determination of coefficient of viscosity of a liquid.

UNIT – II ACOUSTICS AND ULTRASONICS (10)
Acoustics: Classification of sound – Characteristics of musical sound – Loudness –
Weber-Fechner law – Decibel – Reverberation time – Sabine’s formula (Growth and
Decay) – Factors affecting acoustics of building (Optimum reverberation time, Loudness,
Focusing, Echo, Resonance and Noise, and their remedies) – Measurement of sound
absorption coefficient – Sound absorbing materials.
Ultrasonics: Properties of ultrasonic waves – Ultrasonic production – Magnetostriction
method – Piezoelectric method – Determination of velocity using acoustic grating -
Applications (SONAR, Acoustics of grating).

UNIT – III CRYSTALLOGRAPHY (9)
Crystalline solids – Amorphous solids – Space lattice – Unit cell – Bravais lattice –
Lattice planes – Miller indices – ‘d’ spacing in cubic lattice – Calculation of atoms per
unit cell – Atomic radius – Coordination number and Packing factor for SC, BCC, FCC
and HCP structures.

UNIT – IV OPTICS AND PHOTOELASTICITY (10)
Interference: Air Wedge – Testing of Flat surfaces – Michelson’s Interferometer –
Types of fringes – Applications: Wavelength determination – Thickness of a transparent
medium.
Optical Instruments: Metallurgical microscope and Scanning electron microscope –
Applications.
Photo elasticity: Theory of photo elasticity – Stress optic law – Isoclinic and
Isochromatic fringes - Photoelastic bench and its use.

UNIT – V LASER AND FIBER OPTICS (10)
Laser: Basic Principle – Einstein theory – Characteristics of laser – Nd:YAG laser –
CO2 laser – Semiconductor laser (homojunction) – Determination of wave length of laser
using grating – Particle size – Application: Communication, Engineering and Medicine,
Holography

Fiber Optics: Principles of optical fiber – Propagation of optical signal through fiber –
expressions for acceptance angle and numerical aperture – Step index and Graded index
fibers – Fiber optic communication system (Block diagram) – Fiber optic sensors –
Displacement and pressure sensors.
TOTAL = 48

TEXT BOOK:
1. Avadhanulu M.N. and Kshirsagar P.G., “A Text Book of Engineering Physics”, S.Chand & Company Ltd., 7th Enlarged Revised Ed., 2005.
2. Gaur R.K. and Gupta S.L., “Engineering Physics”, Dhanpat Rai Publishers, New
Delhi, 2001.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Arumugam M., “Engineering Physics”, Anuradha Agencies, Kumbakonam, 2nd Edition, 2005.
2. Pillai S.O., “Solid State Physics”, New Age International Publications, New Delhi, 6th Edition, 2005.
3. Palanisamy P.K., “Physics for Engineers”, Scitech Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, Second Edition, 2005.
4. Chitra Shadrach and Sivakumar Vadivelu, “Engineering Physics”, Pearson Education, 1st
Edition, New Delhi, 2007.

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