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COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus Fall-2018

This document outlines the course plan for Applied Physics for Engineers (PHY121) being taught in the fall 2018 semester at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. It lists 3 recommended textbooks for the course. It then details the 15 weeks of the semester, with 3-4 lecture topics covered each week, including electrostatics, electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, optics, interference and diffraction of light. Evaluation includes two sessional exams. The course aims to provide students with fundamental physics concepts required for engineering.

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COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus Fall-2018

This document outlines the course plan for Applied Physics for Engineers (PHY121) being taught in the fall 2018 semester at COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus. It lists 3 recommended textbooks for the course. It then details the 15 weeks of the semester, with 3-4 lecture topics covered each week, including electrostatics, electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves, optics, interference and diffraction of light. Evaluation includes two sessional exams. The course aims to provide students with fundamental physics concepts required for engineering.

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COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus 1

Fall-2018

Course Title: Applied Physics for Engineers (PHY121)


Course Instructor: Muhammad Kaleem Ullah

Recommended Books:
1. Fundamentals of Physics, by David Halliday, Resnick and Walker/Krane

2. University Physics by Freedman and Young (10th and higher editions)

3. H.D. Young and R.G. Freedman, Physics for Scientists and Engineers
Weeks Lectures Contents/Topics
1 Electrostatics, Coulomb’s law
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2 Electric field, electric field lines, electric field due to point and dipole
3 Electric field due to line of charge, ring of charge, disk of charge
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4 A point charge and a dipole in an electric field
5 The flux of a vector field, The flux of electric field, Gauss’ law and its applications
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6 Spherically symmetric charge distributions, a charged isolated conductor
Electric potential energy, potential energy of a system of charges, calculating potential from the
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field, Assignment-1
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Electric potentials, potential due to point charge, potential due to group of point charges,
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equipotential surfaces
9 Potential due to dipole, continuous charge distribution, Quiz-1
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10 Potential for line of charge, disk of charge, ring of charge
SESSIONAL-1 EXAMINATION
11 Electric current, current density, resistivity and conductivity, ohm’s law
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12 Electromagnetism, magnetic properties of materials
13 The magnetic field B, The magnetic field of a moving charge, circulating charges
7 The Hall effect, magnetic force on a current, torque on a current loop=op, the magnetic dipole
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Assignment-2
15 The Biot-Savart law, Line of B, two parallel conductors, Ampere’s law, solenoid & toroids
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16 Faraday’s experiments, Faraday‘s law of induction, Lenz’s law
17 Emf, induced emf and motional emf, induced electric field
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18 Basic theory and principle of electromagnetic waves, Quiz-2
19 The basic equations of electromagnetism, induced magnetic fields
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20 The electromagnetic spectrum, generating an electromagnetic wave
SESSIONAL-2 EXAMINATION
21 Reflection and refraction at a plane and spherical surface, total internal reflection
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22 Graphical method for mirrors and lenses
23 Two source interference, double-slit interference, phase coherence
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24 Interference from thin films, diffraction and wave theory of light and
25 Single-slit diffraction, diffraction gratings, X -ray diffraction,
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26 Polarization, polarizing sheets, types of polarizations
27 Polarization of electromagnetic waves
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28 Students presentations
15 29 Students presentations
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus 2
Fall-2018

30 Students presentations

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