PHY – 112 APPLIED PHYSICS

PHY – 112              APPLIED PHYSICS COURSE CONTENTS:

1.             MEASUREMENTS 1.1-    FUNDAMENTAL UNITS AND DERIVED UNITS. 1.2-    SYSTEMS OF MEASUREMENT AND  S.I.  UNITS. 1.3-    CONCEPT OF DIMENSIONAL FORMULA. 1.4-    CONVERSION FROM ONE SYSTEM TO ANOTHER. 1.5-    SIGNIFICANT FIGURES. 2.         SCALARS AND VECTORS 2.1-    REVIEW OF HEAD TO TAIL RULE. 2.2-    LAWS OF PARALLELOGRAM, TRIANGLE AND POLYGON OF FORCES. 2.3-    RESOLUTION OF A VECTOR. 2.4-    ADDITION OF VECTORS BY RECTANGULAR COMPONENTS. 2.5-    MULTIPLICATION OT TWO VECTORS, DOT PRODUCT AND CROSS PRODUCT. 3.         MOTION 3.1-    REVIEW OF LAWS AND EQUATIONS OF MOTION. 3.2-    LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM. 3.3-    ANGULAR MOTION. 3.4-    RELATION BETWEEN LINEAR AND ANGULAR MOTION. 3.5-    CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION AND FORCE. 3.6-    EQUATION OF ANGULAR MOTION. 4.         TORQUE. EQUILIBRIUM AND ROTATIONAL INERTIA 4.1-    TORQUE. 4.2-    CENTRE OF GRAVITY AND CENTRE OF MASS. 4.3-    EQUILIBRIUM AND ITS CONDITIONS. 4.4-    TORQUE AND ANGULAR ACCELERATION. 4.5-    ROTATIONAL INERTIA. 5.         WAVE MOTION 5.1-    REVIEW HOOKE’S LAW OF ELASTICITY. 5.2-    MOTION UNDER AN ELASTIC RESTORING FORCE. 5.3-    CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION. 5.4-    S.H.M. AND CIRCULAR MOTION. 5.5-    SIMPLE PENDULUM. 5.6-    WAVE FORM OF S.H.M. 5.7-    RESONANCE. 5.8-    TRANSVERSE VIBRATION OF A STRETCHED STRING. 6.         SOUND 6.1-    LONGITUDINAL WAVES. 6.2-    INTENSITY, LOUDNESS, PITCH AND QUALITY OF SOUND. 6.3-    UNITS OF INTENSITY OF LEVEL AND FREQUENCY RESPONSE AF  EAR. 6.4-    INTERFERENCE OF SOUND WAVES SILENCE ZONES, BEATS. 6.5-    ACOUSTICS. 6.6-    DOPPLER EFFECT. 7.         LIGHT 7.1-    REVIEW LAWS OF REFLECTION AND REFRACTION. 7.2-    IMAGE FORMATION BY MIRRORS AND LENSES. 7.3-    OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS. 7.4-    WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT. 7.5-    INTERFERENCE, DIFFRACTION, POLARIZATION OF LIGHT WAVES. 7.6-    APPLICATIONS OF POLIRAZATION IN SUNGLASSES, OPTICAL ACTIVITY AND STRESS ANALYSIS. 8.         OPTICAL FIBER 8.1-    OPTICAL COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEMS. 8.2-    REVIEW TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION AND CRITICAL ANGLE. 8.3-    STRUCTURE OF OPTICAL FIBER. 8.4-    FIBER MATERIAL AND MANUFACTURE. 8.5-    OPTICAL FIBER – USES. 9.         LASERS 9.1-    CORPUSCULAR THEORY OF LIGHT. 9.2-    EMISSION AND ABSORPTION OF LIGHT. 9.3-    STIMULATED ABSORPTION AND EMISSION OF LIGHT. 9.4-    LASER PRINCIPLE. 9.5-    STRUCTURE AND WORKING OF LASERS. 9.6-    TYPES OF LASERS WITH BRIEF DESCRIPTION. 9.7-    APPLICATIONS. 9.8-    MATERIAL PROCESSING. 9.9-    LASER WELDING. 9.10- LASER ASSISTED MACHINING. 9.11- MICRO MACHINING. 9.12- DRILLING, SCRIBING AND MARKING. 9.13- PRINTING. 9.14- LASERS IN MEDICINE.   BOOKS   1-FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS VOL.I AND II,   TAHIR HUSSAIN   2-FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS VOL.I AND II,   FARID KHAWAJA.   3-LASERS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS,    WILSON ____________________________________________________________________________