These topics will be covered here, and the reading materials can be accessed by clicking on the hyperlinks.

1. Passive Devices & Instrumentation

(Paper PHY-S-05T – Unit 1)

  • Resistors: types, characteristics, and colour coding
  • Capacitors: types, characteristics, and colour coding
  • Star and delta connections of resistors and capacitors
  • Chokes and transformers
  • Multimeter (Analog and Digital): working principles and applications
  • Cathode Ray Oscilloscope (CRO): waveforms and Lissajous figures
  • AF and RF oscillators
  • Usage of breadboard
    (Lectures: 10)

2. Theory of Quantum Scattering

(Paper PHY-C-06 QM – Unit 2)

  • Collision in three dimensions
  • α-scattering and its theoretical interpretation
  • Laboratory vs. Centre-of-Mass reference frames
  • Scattering
  • Scattering amplitude
  • Differential scattering cross section
  • Total scattering cross section
  • Scattering by spherically symmetric potentials
  • Partial wave analysis and phase shifts
  • Born approximation
    (Lectures: 14)

3. Molecular Spectroscopy

(Paper PHY-C-07 – Unit 2)


📚 Reference Books

  • Electronics Devices and Circuits — Boylestad & Nashelsky
  • Electronic Principles — Malvino
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics — David J. Griffiths / J. J. Sakurai
  • Quantum Mechanics — L. I. Schiff
  • Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure — G. Herzberg
  • Fundamentals of Molecular Spectroscopy — C. N. Banwell
  • Introduction to Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy — White