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Optical Fibres and Fibre Optics

Students will be taken through Introduction to Optical Fibres,  Review of Electromagnetic Theory.  Basic Waveguide Equations – wave and Ray optics, the dielectric slab wave guide, Fibre types, Fabrication of optical fibres, Fibre Measurements.  Packaging of optical fibres, source coupling, splices and connectors, Fibre Systems, Integrated Optics Fibre Optics in communications, industry and medicine. Solitons in Fibres, Fibre amplifiers and Fibres Lasers.

Course Code: 
PHY 529
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Atmospheric Physics

Under this course students will study Physics of the ionosphere, Interaction of EM radiation with the constituents of the middle atmosphere, Rarefied aerodynamics- a study of perturbation, Mesosphere as a transition region, Distribution of properties of trace gases and aerosols, transport and dynamics in the middle atmosphere, hydro magnetic behaviour near neutral point, The model of the interplanetary magnetic field.

Course Code: 
PHY 527
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Advanced Environmentat Physics

For this course students will be taken through Scope of environmental physics, Gas Laws, Transport Laws, Radiation environment, Microclimatology of radiation-direct and diffuse radiation, radiation properties of natural materials, net radiation, momentum transfer Heat transfer, Mass transfer, Steady-state heat balance, transient heat balance, Greenhouse effect, global cooling due to light scattering particles and ozone depletion

Course Code: 
PHY 526
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Semiconductor Physics

This course will help students to understand the description and classification, intrinsic semiconductors, impurity levels, extrinsic semiconductors mobility, Band structure, Effective mass, Band gap, N-n junctions and schottky diode, barrier layer approximation, I-V and C-V characteristics, Electrical and Optical Properties of Semiconductors, Semiconductor-metal contacts, Ohmic and Schottky contacts Influence of impurities and defects on the properties of these contacts.

Course Code: 
PHY 523
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Meteorology II

Equations of Motion on a Rotating, gravitational, Pressure and Coriolis forces, Energy Equations, Equations of Motion in Natural Coordinates, Types of Flow-Zonal, Horizontal & Spherical, classification of flow-Baric, Geostrophic, Intertial, Eulerian, Gradient Trajectories and Streamlines, Variation of Wind and Pressure in Vertical, thermal wind and Relative Stability, Circulation and verticity, Long waves in the Westerlies.

Course Code: 
PHY 512
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Many Body Theory

Students will be be taken through Occupation Number representation, Plasma Oscillations, Schrodinger, Heisenberg Interaction Pictures, Adiabatic Hypothesis and ground State, Feynman-graphs, Correlation Energy, Green Functions and One-electron.

Course Code: 
PHY 515
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Group Theory

This course will enlighten students on the Multiplication Table, Conjugate Elements, Class Subgroups, Cosets, Normal Subgroups, Isomophism, Hormorphism, Direct Product of Group, Linear Operators and Matrices, Reducible and Irreducible representations, Schur’s Lemmas and Orthogonality Theorem, Character of a representation, Application of group Theory to Atomic Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Solid State Physics.

Course Code: 
PHY 514
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Meteorology I

Structure and composition of the Atmosphere, Classification of the Atmosphere, Solar Radiation, Solar Constant, Undulated Isolation, Transmission of Solar Radiation, and Long wave Radiation in the Atmosphere, Planetary temperature. The Greenhouse effect, Energy Budget of Earth/ Atmosphere System, Energy Fluxes.

Course Code: 
PHY 511
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

Microprocessors II

This course deals with Microprocessor Architecture, Microprocessor Cycles and Signals, Gate and Memory Directories, Interruption, Programme Gates, Software, Example of Systems.

Course Code: 
PHY 508
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

MICROPROCESSORS I

Microprocessors I will introduce students to Linear Integrated Circuits, Operation amplifiers, Linear and Non Linear Wave conformation, Bipolar Digital ICS, MOS & CMOs digital ICS, Multi vibrator Circuits, Counters and Registers.

Course Code: 
PHY 507
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 500
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Physics

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