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Departments - Physics - Course Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objectives

To nurture scientific temper and curiosity

To improve problem-solving skills and numerical abilities

To encourage imagination and creative thinking

To help students develop their learning methodologies to pick up new knowledge/skills

​​​​​​To pursue careers that incorporate ethical and professional responsibility and good citizenship.

Course Outcomes

MECHANICS

On successful completion of this course students will:

  • CO1: Understand integration of vectors
  • CO2: Derive Stoke’s , Greens and Gauss theorems
  • CO3: Understand Collisions in one and two dimensions
  • CO4: Understand the relation between scattering cross section and impact parameter
  • CO5: Understand the properties of materials
  • CO6: Identify and apply the laws of mechanics along with the necessary mathematics for solving numerical
  • CO7: Gain knowledge on Central forces – definition and examples, Conservative nature of central forces, Conservative force as a negative gradient of potential energy, Equation of motion under acentral force
  • CO8: Derive Kepler’s laws, Coriolis force and its expressions

WAVES AND OSCILLATIONS

On successful completion of this course students will:

  • CO1: Solve wave equation and understand significance of transverse waves
  • CO2: Solve wave equation of a longitudinal vibration in bars free at one end and also fixed at both the ends.
  • CO3: Obtain boundary conditions of a longitudinal vibration in bars free at one end and also fixed at both the ends
  • CO4: Gain knowledge on applications of transverse and longitudinal waves.
  • CO5: Acquire skills to identify and apply formulas of optics and wave physics
  • CO6: Understand the properties of light like reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction etc
  • CO7: Understand the applications of diffraction and polarization.
  • CO8: Understand the applications of interference in design and working of interferometers.
  • CO9: Understand the resolving power of different optical instruments.

THERMAL PHYSICS

On successful completion of this course students will:

  • CO1: Gain knowledge in Kinetic theory of gases
  • CO2: Understand the process of thermal conductivity, viscosity and diffusion in gases
  • CO3: Understand the nature of thermodynamic properties of matter like internal energy, enthalpy, entropy, temperature, pressure and specific volume
  • CO4: Understand the efficiency of Carnot’s engine.
  • CO5: Understand the significance of first law and second of thermodynamics
  • CO6: Understand implications of the second law of thermodynamics and limitations placed by the second law on the performance of thermodynamic systems
  • CO7: Evaluate entropy changes in a wide range of processes and determine the reversibility or irreversibility of a process from such calculations.
  • CO8: Understand the interrelationship between thermodynamic functions and ability to use such relationships to solve practical problems.

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

On successful completion of this course students will:

  • CO1: Gain Knowledge on the basic concepts of electric and magnetic fields.
  • CO2: Understand the concept of conductors, dielectrics, inductance and capacitance
  • CO3: Gain knowledge on the nature of magnetic materials.
  • CO4: Understand the concept of static and time varying fields.
  • CO5: Gain knowledge on electromagnetic induction and its applications
  • CO6: Gain knowledge on EM waves, propagation and their properties.

MODERN PHYSICS

On successful completion of the course, the students will:

  • CO1: To understand the difference between Atomic and Molecular spectroscopies.
  • CO2: Understand the intuitive ideas of the Quantum physics and Nuclear physics.
  • CO3: Derive Schrodinger time dependent and time independent wave equations
  • CO4: To understand dual nature of matter.
  • CO5: Gain knowledge on classification of various crystal systems .Understand the basics of crystallography, x-ray diffraction and Superconductivity.
  • CO6: Students will develop a comprehension of the current basis of broad knowledge in Modern physics.
  • CO7: Learners will build on a critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and problem solving skills.