Engineering Physics IIT Guwahati

H buddy I want to take admission in IIT Guwahati to do B. Tech. Engineering Physics Program and for the same here looking for its syllabus ??

[shikha]

As you asking I am telling IIT Guwahati department of physics started a four year B. Tech. Engineering Physics Program in 2006 to train the bright students as engineer along with essential knowledge on physics and applied physics:

IIT Guwahati B. Tech. Engineering Physics Program syllabus
PH101: Physics - I (2-1-0-6)
Classical Mechanics: Review of Newtonian Mechanics in rectilinear coordinate system. Motion in
plane polar coordinates. Conservation principles. Collision problem in laboratory and centre of mass
frame. Rotation about fixed axis. Non-inertial frames and pseudo forces. Rigid body dynamics.
Special Theory of Relativity: Postulates of STR. Galilean transformation. Lorentz transformation.
Simultaneity. Length Contraction. Time dilation. Relativistic addition of velocities. Energymomentum
relationships.
Quantum Mechanics: Two-slit experiment. De Broglie’s hypothesis. Uncertainty Principle, wave
function and wave packets, phase and group velocities. Schrödinger Equation. Probabilities and
Normalization. Expectation values. Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Applications in one dimension:
Particle in a box, Finite Potential well, Harmonic oscillator.

SEMESTERS -1 and 2
PH110: Physics Laboratory (0-0-3-3)
Experiments in General Physics: Determination of acceleration due to gravity using a compound
pendulum, determination of moment of inertia of a flywheel, determination of surface tension of a
given liquid by Jaeger’s method and capillary rise method.
Experiments in Electricity and Magnetism: Determination of magnetic field along the axis of a
current carrying circular coil, determination of resonant frequency and the quality factor for a given
LCR circuit, study of Hall Effect in extrinsic semiconductor.
Experiments in Optics: Interference by division of amplitude technique (Newton's ring), Interference
by division of wave front technique (Fresnel biprism), Diffraction Grating.

IIT Guwahati B. Tech. Engineering Physics Program syllabus