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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

Logic gates: AND, OR NAND, NOR, XOR, Continuous 40%
XNOR; logic gates TTL Assessment:
Logic circuits: Boolean algebra, truth table
for Boolean expression, derivation circuit
from Boolean expression SIF3007 ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS
Karnaugh map simplification with three, (3 CREDITS)
four and five variables
TTL chip specification, CMOS, interface, Feynman diagrams, electromagnetic and
Schmitt Trigger: Function and functional weak forces, fundamental particles and
Combinational logic circuit: half adders, full forces, natural units; Leptons and neutrino
adder, binary multiplication oscillations; Quarks and hadrons;
Sequential logic: SR, JK, D, T flip flops Symmetries : C, P and T, C, P and CP
Register: parallel, series, shifter, ring violations, and CPT; Quark model: isospin
counter, frequency divider symmetry and bound states; Relativistic
Memory: RAM, ROM, PROM etc kinematics: four-vector and cross section;
Digital device, PLD, PAL, PLC, micro- QCD: asymptotic freedom, jets and elastic
controller lepton-nucleon scattering; Inelastic lepton-
Analog digital interface nucleon scattering: parton model,
structure functions and scaling violation;
Assessment Method: Weak interaction: charged and neutral
Summative 60% currents, quark mixing, electroweak
Assessment: unification and Higgs boson; Experimental
Continuous 40% methods
Assessment:
Assessment Method:
SIF3006 OPTOELECTRONICS (3 CREDITS) Summative 60%
Assessment:
Nature of light; Optical interferometer; Continuous 40%
Dielectric mirror; Diffraction gratings; P-N Assessment:
junctions; Principles and characteristics of
photodetectors; PIN and avalanche SIF3008 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS (3
photodiodes; Photon counters; Single CREDITS)
photon detectors and Photo Multiplier
Tube; Light emitting diodes; Conducting Materials (electronic & ionic
Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor conductivity, mobility, electron dispersion
optical amplifiers; mechanism); Semiconductors: band
Electro-optics effect; Acousto-optics structure (Intrinsic and extrinsic
effect; Pockels effect; Optical modulators: properties); Electrical properties
Phase, polarization and amplitude; Bit rate (conductivity, mobility, electron dispersion
and bandwidth; Transmitter and receiver mechanism); Optical properties;
modules types for optical communications; Photoconductivity; Insulating Materials:
Optical storage; Optical imaging (CCD and dielectric constant, polarization; AC & DC
CMOS); Physics of Solar Cells. conductivities; hopping mechanism;
Piezoelectric; Ferroelectric, Pyroelectric;
Assessment Method: Magnetic materials: basic theory; magnetic
Summative 60% susceptibility; types of magnetic
Assessment: properties, magnetic resonance;
ferromagnetism; spintronics.

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