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302910 (v.1) Engineering Physics 161



 

Area:

Department of Applied Physics

Contact Hours:

4.0

Credits:

12.5

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 2 Hours Monthly

Other Requisite(s):

TEE Subject Completion: TEE Physics or equivalent
Elasticity - elastic, shear and bulk moduli. Oscillations - simple harmonic motion. Wave Motion. Superposition and standing waves. Electromagnetic waves and light. Properties of light. Interference and Diffraction - coherence and Young's experiment, diffraction and resolution, diffraction gratings.. Quantum Physics - molecules and solids, molecular bonding, structure of solids, semiconductors, semiconductor junctions and devices. Nuclear Physics - properties of nuclei and radioactivity.


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