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conservative forces - central forces - conservation of angular momentum - non-inertial frames of
reference - rotating coordinate system - centripetal and coriolis accelerations – Elasticity - stress-
strain diagram - bending of beams - cantilever depression - Young’s modulus determination - I-
shape girders.
UNIT-II CRYSTAL PHYSICS 9
Basis – lattices - symmetry operations and crystal systems -Bravaislattics - atomic radius and
packing fraction - SC, BCC, FCC, HCP lattices - Miller indices - diffraction by crystals -
reciprocal lattice - interpreting diffraction patterns - crystal growth techniques-Czochralski and
Bridgmann, crystal defects.
UNIT-III PHYSICS OF MATERIALS 9
Solid solutions - Hume-Rothery’s rules –Gibb’s phase rule - binary phase diagrams -isomporhpus
systems - tie-line and lever rule - eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic, peritectoid, monotectic and
syntectic systems - formation of microstructures - homogeneous and non-homogenous cooling –
nucleation - iron-carbon phase diagram - eutectoid steel - hypo and hypereutectoid steel – diffusion
- Fick’s laws – T-T-T diagrams.
UNIT-IV ENGINEERING MATERIALS & TESTING 9
Metallic glasses – preparation and properties - Ceramics – types, manufacturing methods and
properties - Composites – types and properties - Shape memory alloys – properties and
applications - Nano-materials – top down and bottom up approaches – properties - Tensile strength
– Hardness – Fatigue - Impact strength – Creep - Fracture – types of fracture.
UNIT-V QUANTUM PHYSICS 9
Blackbody problem -Planck’s radiation law - duality of light -De Broglie hypothesis - properties of
matter waves - wave packets –Schrodinger’s equations (time dependent and time independent) -
Born interpretation (physical significance of wave function) - probability current - operator
formalism (qualitative) - expectation values - uncertainty principle - particle in a box -eigen
function and eigen values -Dirac notation (qualitative).
Contact : 45
Hours

List of Experiments
1 Determination of Laser characteristics (wavelength and angular spread).
2 Determination of Young’s modulus by non-uniform bending method
3 Determination of thermal conductivity of a bad conductor – Lee’s Disc method.
4 Determination of velocity of sound and compressibility of liquid – Ultrasonic interferometer
5 Coupled oscillators - Two compound pendulums;
6 Experiment on moment of inertia measurement- Torsional pendulum by resonance,
7 LC circuit, LCR circuit and Resonance phenomena in LCR circuits;
8 Experiments on electromagnetic induction – BH-Curve experiment
9 Determination of thickness of a thin wire – Air wedge method
10 Determination of solar cell characteristics.
11 Measurement of hysteresis loss:B -H curve.
12 Determination of creep characteristics of a metallic wire
Contact Hours : 30
Total Contact Hours : 75

Course Outcomes: On completion of the course students will be able to
Understand foundational mechanics and elastic nature of materials and determine the elastic

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