V.S.B.

ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KARUR

Department of Physics

Academic Year: 2018-2019(ODD Semester)

Assignment Questions

Unit – I

1. Compare the elastic behavior of spring, copper wire and rubber.

2. How do Engineers Evaluate plastic materials and materials strength?

3. Explain force law for simple harmonic motion and find the force acting on the hydrogen
atom for following problem. A hydrogen atom has mass 1.68×10−27 kg. When attached to
a certain massive molecule it oscillates with a frequency 1014 Hz and with an
amplitude 10−9 cm.

4. Find expression for moment of inertia of sphere and list the moment of inertia of different
shape of the material.

Unit – II

5. What is an LC circuit? Explain Series LC Circuit Resonance and Parallel LC Circuit

Resonance with applications.

6. Describe Principle, construction, working and sensitivity of Moving coil galvanometer.

7. Discuss about types of Voltmeter and types of Ammeter and how can use galvanometer as
Voltmeter and Ammeter.

8. Explain Ballistic galvanometer and how can calibrate Ballistic galvanometer with
capacitor and Inductance.

9. Write History of Newton’s Laws of Motion with practical applications.

10. What is a thin film? Derive the conditions for constructive and destructive interference
for the reflected system in a thin film of uniform thickness.

A 0.4µm thick soap film is viewed at an angle of 450. If the refractive index of the film is
1.33, calculate the wavelength of the light which will be absent when viewed under
reflection in the visible spectrum.
11. Give the theory of Newton’s rings. Describe the experiment to determine the wavelength
of monochromatic light using Newton’s rings.

12. In Newton rings arrangement a source is emitting two wavelengths λ1=6×10 -7m and
λ2=5.9×10-7m. It is found that nth dark ring due to one wave length coincides with (n+1) th
dark ring due to other. Find the diameter of nth dark ring if the radius of curvature of the
lens is 0.9m. How to measure unknown frequency of tuning fork using Melde’s
experiment.

13. Explain Huygens wave theory and what is a simpler proof of Snell's law of refraction
using Huygens wave theory?

14. Explain the construction and working principle of He-Ne Laser with energy level
diagram. What are the merits of He-Ne Laser?

15. Describe the construction and working of ruby laser with a neat diagram.

16. Explain construction and working of Nd:YAG laser with a neat energy level diagram.

17. Explain the principle, construction and working of a Argon lasers with neat diagram.

18. With neat diagram, describe the construction and working of Seocl2 laser.

19. Explain construction and working of Europium chelate lasers with a neat energy level
diagram

20. Explain construction and working of Rhodamine 6g lasers laser with a neat energy level
diagram

21. Explain construction and working of Coumarin dye lasers with a neat energy level
diagram

22. Illustrate how the speeds of molecules are distributed for an ideal gas by Maxwell-
Boltzmann distribution?

23. How Bose-Einstein distribution describes the statistical behavior of integer spin particles
(bosons)?

24. Write the expressions for electron and hole concentrations in an intrinsic semiconductor
and hence derive the expression for Fermi energy in an intrinsic semiconductor. How
does the electrical conductivity vary with temperature for an intrinsic semiconductor? If
the effective mass of electron is equal to twice the effective mass of hole, determine the
position of the Fermi level in an intrinsic semiconductor from the centre of forbidden gap
at room temperature.
25. Give an account of Band theory of solids based on the Kronig-Penny model. Discuss the
salient features of Kronig-Penny model of a crystal.

26. Derive an expression for Fermi level in a p-type semiconductor and hence obtain an
expression for concentration of holes in the p-type semiconductor.

27. Derive an expression for carrier concentration in an n-type semiconductor.

28. What is Fermi level? Explain the Fermi-Dirac distribution function of electrons. Explain
the effect of temperature on the distribution.

29. Derive London equations pertaining to superconductors. Write notes on penetration depth
in superconductivity. What are applications of superconductors?

30. What is superconductivity? Explain Meissner effect. Describe type-I and type-II
superconductors.

31. What are super conductors? Explain BCS theory.

32. Discuss DC and AC Josephoson’s effects and explain their importance.

33. Describe construction and working of Optical fiber communication system.

34. Explain any one method for the preparation of optical fiber.

35. Explain in detail different types of Luminescence.

36. Describe construction and working of Michelson interferometer. Explain the formation of
various fringes in it.

Calculate the distance between successive positions of movable mirror of Michelson’s

interferometer giving best fringes in case of a sodium source having wavelengths 5896 A o
and 5890 Ao. What will be the change in path difference between two successive
reappearances of the interference pattern?

Unit – III

37. Describe Searle’s method to determine thermal conductivity of good conductor with
relevant theory.

38. Describe with relevant theory the method of determining the coefficient of thermal
conductivity of a bad conductor by Radial flow method.

39. Explain working principle of Microwave oven and how it is used for the preparation of
nanomaterials?

40. Explain principle, working and construction of a solar cell with a neat diagram.
 Unit – IV

41. Failures and success of classical & quantum theory

42. What is density of energy states in metals? Derive an expression for density of energy
states and hence obtain Fermi energy of a metal.

43. Explain the resolving power of a microscope. Deduce and discuss an expression for it.

A microscope is used to resolve two self – luminous objects separated by a distance

4.0×10-5 cm. if the wavelength of light is 5461Ao, compute the numerical aperture of the
objective.

44. Explain the principle and working of scanning electron microscope and list its
applications.

45. What is the principle of transmission electron microscope? And how it is used to identify
the size of nanoparticles.

46. Derive an expression for the electrical conductivity of a material in terms of mobility of
the electron using classical free electron theory and quantum free electron theory.

47. Derive an expression for the thermal conductivity of a material in terms of mobility of the
electron using classical free electron theory and quantum free electron theory.

48. Write detailed about Special theory of relativity.

49. State and prove Bragg’s law of X-ray diffraction. What is the limiting condition for
Bragg’s law? The Bragg’s angle for reflection from the (1 1 1) plane in FCC crystal is
19.2o for an X-ray wavelength of 1.54Å. Compute the cube edge of the unit cell.

50. What is Raman effect? How to analyze the phases and vibrations of nanomaterials with
Raman spectrometer?

51. Compare scanning tunneling electron microscope (STEM) and scanning electron
microscope (SEM). List the advantages and disadvantages of STEM and SEM.

52. Explain the principle and working of atomic force microscope and how it is useful to
study the surface morphology of nanomaterils.

Unit – V

53. Describe the structure of polonium crystal. Give details about its atomic radius, atomic
packing factor and axial ratio.
54. Calculate the number of atoms per unit cell, coordination number and packing factor for
Iron, Barium and Tungsten crystals.

55. Describe the arrangement of atoms in Copper, Aluminium and Nickel crystals and
calculate the atomic packing factor.

56. What is packing factor? Obtain packing factors for Magnesium, Zinc and Titanium
crystals.

57. Describe the Germanium, Silver and Carbon structures. What type of bond is present in
carbon?