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Faculty of Science Handbook, Session 2015/2016

References:
B. Sc. (Materials Science) 1. Mary L. Boas, Mathematical methods in the physical sciences, 3rd
ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
SYNOPSES OF COURSES 2. M.T. Vaughn, Introduction to Mathematical Physics (Wiley-VCH,
2007)
3. G.B. Arfken, H.J. Weber, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 6
th
Edition - Int’l (Acad. Press, 2005)
4. S. Hassani, Mathematical Physics (Springer, 1999)
CORE COURSES
SMES1201 VIBRATIONS AND WAVES
LEVEL 1 Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced oscillation, wave
propagating in a string, transverse and horizontal waves, wave at the
SMES1102 FUNDAMENTAL OF MATHEMATICAL METHOD interface of two media, superposition of waves, velocity of waves,
group velocity, coherence, coherence length, coherence time,
Vector: addition, dot product, cross product interference, diffraction, sound wave, light wave, electromagnetic wave,
Functions with one variable: differentiation and integration wave in fluids, wave-particle duality
Ordinary differential equations: Solutions to first order and linear
second order homogeneous differential equations Assessment Method:
Taylor series including many variables Final Examination: 60%
Matrices: addition, multiplication, determinant Continuous Assessment: 40%
Complex number, exp (i) expression
Medium of Instruction:
Assessment Method: English
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40% Soft-skills:
CS2, CT3, LL2
Medium of Instruction:
English References:
1. H.J. Pain, The Physics of Vibrations & Waves, 6 ed. (Wiley,
th
Soft-skills: Chichester, 2005)
CS2, CT3, LL2 2. G.C. King, Vibrations and Waves (Wiley, 2009)
3. W. Gough, Vibrations and Waves, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall, 1996)
References: 4. I.G. Main, Vibrations and Waves in Physics, 3rd ed. (Cambridge
1. Mary L. Boas, Mathematical methods in the physical sciences, 3rd Univ. Press, 1993)
ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
2. M.R. Spiegel, Schaum’s Outline of Advanced Mathematics for SMES1202 THERMAL PHYSICS
Engineers and Scientists, 1 ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2009)
3. S. Lipschutz, M. Lipson, Schaum’s Outline of Discrete Temperature, heat conduction, diffusion. Radiation, Stefan’s law,
Mathematics, Revised 3rd ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2009) Zeroth law of thermodynamics, work and heat; First, Second and third
4. S. Lipschutz, J.J. Schiller, R.A. Srinivasan, Schaum’s Outline of laws of thermodynamics; entropy; phase transition, phase diagrams;
Beginning Finite Mathematics (McGraw-Hill, 2004) kinetic theory for ideal gas, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; real gas.
5. M. Lipsson, Schaum’s Easy Outline of Discrete Mathematics Introduction to statistical mechanics: microstates, equipartition of
(McGraw-Hill, 2002) energy, partition function, basic statistics for thermodynamics;
statistical entropy and information as negative entropy.
SMES1103 BEGINNING OF MATHEMATICAL METHODS
Assessment Method:
Linear Equations: Row reduction, determinant and Cramer’s Rule. Final Examination: 60%
Vectors and vector analysis: Straight line and planes; vector Continuous Assessment: 40%
multiplication, triple vector, differentiation of vectors, fields, directional
derivative, gradient, some other expressions involving  , line Medium of Instruction:
integrals, Green’s Theorem in a plane, divergence and divergence English
theorem, curl and Stoke’s Theorem.
Matrices: Linear combination, linear function, linear operators, sets of Soft-skills:
linear equations, special matrices. CS2, CT3, LL2
Partial differentiation: Power series in two variables, total differentials,
chain rule, application of partial differentiation to maximum and References:
minimum problems including constraints, Lagrange multipliers, 1. S.J. Blundell & K.M. Blundell, Concepts in Thermal Physics, 2nd ed.
endpoint and boundary point problems, change of variables, (Oxford, 2009)
differentiation of integrals, Leibniz Rule. 2. F.W. Sears & G.L. Salinger, Thermo-dynamics, Kinetic Theory &
rd
Multiple integrals: Double and triple integrals, change of variables in Statistical Thermodynamics, 3 Ed. (Addison-Wesley, 1975)
integrals, Jacobian, surface integrals. 3. Daniel V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Thermal Physics (Addison
Ordinary differential equation: Inhomogeneous Second order linear Wesley Longman, 2000)
differential equations. 4. Mark W. Zemansky & Richard H. Dittman, Heat and
th
Thermodynamics, 7 Ed. (McGraw-Hill Int’l Ed., 1997)
Assessment Method: 5. Thomas Espinola, Introduction to Thermophysics (Wm.C. Brown
Final Examination: 60% Publ., 1994)
Continuous Assessment: 40%
SMES1204 BASIC ELECTRONICS
Medium of Instruction:
English Circuit Theory: Kirchhoff’s law, Thevenin’s theorem, Norton’s theorem,
Ohm’s law, circuit analysis technique, impedance matching.
Soft-skills: Semiconductor Diodes: Properties of semiconductor, pn junction,
CS2, CT3, LL2 forward and reverse bias conditions, basic energy band diagrams, the
current-voltage characteristics and simple diode circuits; the use of

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