UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester II - CST 108 - Applied Physics II

Lecture Per Week: 6 hrs
Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Electrical Properties: Free electron of Drude and Lorentz - Weidman Franz Law - distinction between conductor, semi conductors, and insulators on the basis of baud theory - factors affecting resistivity of a conductor: Temperature, allowing, pressure, strain, magnetic field and environment.

Unit II

Magnetic Materials: Magnetic materials - classification of magnetic materials. ferromagnetism: Domain theory - hysteresis - hard and soft magnetic materials - curie - weiss law - magnetostriction, ferrites, preparation, properties, applications - magnetic bubble memory. magnetic recording - writing magnetic data - reading magnetic data - storage of magnetic data

Unit III

Dielectric materials: Qualitative study of three types of polarization - effect of temperature and frequency on dielectric constant - dielectric loss - ferro electric materials - behviour of barium titanate - pieze - electric materials - breakdown mechanisms - classification of insulating materials on temperature basis

Unit IV

Super conductors: Qualitative study of the phenomenon - critical temperature and critical field. meissner effect - type I and II superconductors. BCS theory of superconductivity (Qualitative) - high temperature superconductor. Applications: Crypton, magnetic leviation - super conducting magnets.

Unit V

Modern engineering materials: Metalic glasses as transformer core material Nanophase materials synthesis - variation of physical properties with Geometry - shape memory allow - characteristics of SMA - Thermomechanical behaviour - commercial SMA - Applications - Biomaterial

Books for Reference

1. R.Raghavan, V: "Materials Science and Engineering A Fist Course", PHI, 1991.

2. Arumugam M, "Materials Science", Anuradha Publications, 1994.

3. P.K.Palanisamy, "Materials Science", Scitech, 2002.

4. Seth & Gupta, "Course in Electrical Engineering Materials", Dhanpat Raj & Sons 1990.