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Faculty of Science Handbook, Session 2016/2017

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60% LEVEL 3
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Medium of Instruction: SIF3001 NUCLEAR PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
Nuclear structure and properties, Nuclear scattering, Nuclear force
English
and force exchange, Nuclear decays, isospin, Nuclear reactions,
Soft-skills: fission and fusion, Nuclear reactions in astrophysics.
CS3, CTPS3
Assessment Method:
References: Final Examination: 60%
40%
Continuous Assessment:
1. Yoshimura, Nagamitsu, Vacuum Technology: Practice for
Scientific Instruments 2008 edition (Springer, 2014)
2. Mauro Sardela, Practical Materials Characterization, (Springer, Medium of Instruction:
2014) English
3. Dominique Placko, Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Soft-skills:
Measurement (ISTE Ltd, 2007)
CS2, CTPS3, LL2
SIF2009 ELECTRONICS PRACTICAL (2 CREDIT) References:
Electronic experiments which cover the topics diode, rectification, 1. J. Liley, Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications (Wiley,
2013)
transistor, amplifier, digital electronic and others.
2. Raymond Murray, Keith E. Holbert, Nuclear Energy: An
Assessment Method: Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of
Nuclear Processes (Elsivier, 2015)
Final Examination: 0%
Continuous Assessment: 100% 3. C. Iliadis, Nuclear Physics of the Stars (Wiley, 2015)
SIF3002 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
Medium of Instruction: Electron spin, Anomalous Zeeman & Paschen Back;
English
Magnetic moment of electron - Spin orbital interaction & Fine structure;
Soft-skills: Magnetic moment of nucleus - Hyperfine structure;
CS3, CTPS3, TS2, EM2 Addition of angular momenta; Relativistic effects;
Fine structure; Indistinguishable particles & Pauli Exclusion Principle;
References: Helium atom; Multi electron atom; alkali atom; Coupling of angular
momenta - LS & jj; Periodic table and Hund's rule; Hyperfine structure;
1. Experimental manual
2. R. Boylestad & L. Nashelsky, Electronic Devices and Circuit Atomic spectra & spectroscopy; Time dependent perturbation theory
Theory, (Pearson Education, 2013), and Fermi golden rule; Absorption, spontaneous and stimulated
3. A.P. Malvino & D. Bates, Electronic Principles (McGraw-Hill emissions; Selection rules and Transition rate; Natural linewidth &
inhomogenous broadening; Einstein coefficient A and B; Diatomic
Education, 2015) molecules - Hamiltonian, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, molecular
4. T. L. Floyd & D. Buchla, Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, potential, vibrational energy, rotational energy; vibrational transition,
Devices, and Applications(Pearson, 2010) vibronic transition and Frank-Condon principle, molecular spectra.
SIF2010 PHYSICS PRACTICAL II (2 CREDITS) Assessment Method:
Practical classes for experiments in fundamental physics on topics Final Examination: 60%
including electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, optics, spectroscopy Continuous Assessment: 40%
and others.
Assessment Method: Medium of Instruction:
Continuous Assessment: 100% English
Soft-skills:
Medium of Instruction: CS2, CTPS3, LL2
English
Soft-skills: References:
CS3, CTPS3, LL2, TS2 1. W. Demtröder, Atoms, Molecules, and Photons: an introduction to
atomic-, molecular-, and quantum-physics, 2nd ed. (Springer,
References: 2. 2011)
Vasant Natarajan, Modern Atomic Physics (CRC Press, 2015)
1. Experimental manual 3. Rajesh Srivastava, Rakesh Choubisa, Atomic and Molecular
SIF2011 APPLIED PHYSICS PRACTICAL (4 CREDITS) Physics: Introduction to Advanced Topics (Narosa Publishing,
2012)
Applied physics experiments covering topics in Solid State Physics,
Plasma Physics, Optics, Radiation Physics, Materials Science, and SIF3003 SOLID STATE PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
Photonics. Introduction to types of solids, structure of crystalline solids: periodicity,
Assessment Method: lattice and unit cell, Bravais lattices, directions and planes in crystals,
Continuous Assessment: 100% X-ray diffraction, diffraction techniques, reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zone,
bonding in solids, dynamics of monoatomic and diatomic lattices (1-D
Medium of Instruction: and 3-D), density of states, dispersion of phonons, thermal properties:
specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, free and quantized electron
English models, D.C. conductivity and electron dispersion, band theory of
Soft-skills: solids: Bloch function, Kronig-Penney model, band theory of solids:
effective mass, density of states and concentration of electrons.
CS3, CTPS3, LL2, TS1
References:
1. Experimental manual

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