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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2024/2025

wave in between conducting planes, guided rectangular wave and
hollow.

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF2005 STATISTICAL PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
Summary of thermodynamics, Statistical thermodynamics, Boltzmann
entropy, Shannon entropy; application canonical ensemble approach
with examples in paramagnetic solid, specific heat capacity, classical
and quantum distribution, Maxwell Boltzmann distribution and ideal
classical gas, ideal quantum gas, Bose-Einstein distribution, Fermi-
Dirac distribution, Applications covering photon and blalck body
radiation, phonon in solid, grand canoncial ensemble, Bose-Einstein
condensation, electron gas in metal.
Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

SIF2007 NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS (3
CREDITS)
Scientific Computing : Taylor’s Theorem, errors, computer language,
simple approximations
Interpolation : Lagrange interpolation, Newton interpolation, piecewise
interpolation, least square approximation
Optimisation : Newton optimisation, Golden Search method
Nonlinear equations: Bisection method, Newton method, Secant
method. Application and error analysis
Initial value problems for ordinary differential equations : Single-step
method : Euler, Runge Kutta Method order 2 and 4, Multistep method;
Addams Families
Linear equations : Gaussian elimination, LU factorization,
Decomposition method
Numerical integration : Mid-point, basic Trapezoid and basic
Simpson’s rule, Composite trapezoid and composite Simpson’s rule,
errors.

Assessment Method:
Final Examination: 60%
Continuous Assessment: 40%

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