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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

classical gas, ideal quantum gas, Bose- Experiments that involve electronic
Einstein distribution, Fermi-Dirac components such as diodes, rectifiers,
distribution, Applications covering photon transistors, amplifiers and digital
and blalck body radiation, phonon in solid, electronics.
grand canoncial ensemble, Bose-Einstein
condensation, electron gas in metal. Assessment Method:
Summative 0%
Assessment Method: Assessment:
Summative 60% Continuous 100%
Assessment: Assessment:
Continuous 40%
Assessment: SIF2010 PHYSICS PRACTICAL II (2 CREDITS)

SIF2007 NUMERICAL AND Practical classes for experiments in
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS (3 CREDITS) fundamental physics on topics including
electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics,
Scientific Computing : Taylor’s Theorem, optics, spectroscopy and others.
errors, computer language, simple
approximations Assessment Method:
Interpolation : Lagrange interpolation, Summative 0%
Newton interpolation, piecewise Assessment:
interpolation, least square approximation Continuous 100%
Optimisation : Newton optimisation, Assessment:
Golden Search method
Nonlinear equations: Bisection method, SIF2026 MECHANICS II (3 CREDITS)
Newton method, Secant method.
Application and error analysis Brief history of analytical mechanics (force
Initial value problems for ordinary & energy based approach); Newton
differential equations : Single-step method equation of motion in noninertial frame of
: Euler, Runge Kutta Method order 2 and 4, reference (linear and angular acceleration,
Multistep method; Addams Families rotating coordinate system, centrifugal
Linear equations : Gaussian elimination, LU force, Coriolis force, Foucault pendulum,
factorization, Decomposition method modelling of planetary meteorological
Numerical integration : Mid-point, basic phenomena); Coupled oscillation (two-
Trapezoid and basic Simpson’s rule, coupled oscillator and normal coordinates,
Composite trapezoid and composite vibration of molecules, dissipative
Simpson’s rule, errors. systems). Nonlinear oscillation (Nonlinear
oscillating systems, qualitative discussion
Assessment Method: of motion, phase diagrams, bifurcation,
Summative 60% chaos, fractal geometry); Lagrangian
Assessment: dynamics (generalized coordinates,
Continuous 40% D’Alembert principle, Lagrange’s equation
Assessment: of motion, problem solving using Lagrange
equation, Noether theorem for
SIF2009 ELECTRONICS PRACTICAL (2 conservation laws, Lagrange equation for
CREDIT) nonnonholonomic constraints and
dissipative systems ); Hamiltonian
dynamics (Hamilton’s principle,

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