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Details of PH2101 (Autumn 2025)

Level: 2 Type: Theory Credits: 3.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
PH2101 Waves and optics Rangeet Bhattacharyya

Syllabus

  • Basic Optics: Wave nature of light, Interference, Diffraction, Polarization.
  • Wave equation and propagation. Phase and group velocities. Wave packets. (Complex representation of waves)
  • Continuity conditions of electric and magnetic fields at the interfaces, Fresnels laws. Fermats principles.


Prerequisite
Level 1 Physics

References
Long List of References:

1. F. S. Crawford, Waves (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 3)(1968).
2. E. Hecht, Optics, Pearson (2008).
3. R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton and M. Sands, Feynman Lectures in Physics - Vols 1
and 2, Addison Wesley, New York (2005).
4. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Addison-Wesley (2012).
5. E. M. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, Cambridge University Press (2013).

Short List of References:

1. F. S. Crawford, Waves (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 3)(1968).
2. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures in Physics , Narosa
(2008).
3. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Addison-Wesley (2012).

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 1 Not Allowed
2 IP 3 Not Allowed
3 MP 1 Not Allowed
4 MP 3 Not Allowed
5 MR 1 Not Allowed
6 MR 3 Not Allowed
7 MS ( Physical Sciences ) 3 Core
8 MS 5 Not Allowed
9 MS 7 Not Allowed
10 MS 9 Not Allowed
11 RS 1 Not Allowed
12 RS 2 Not Allowed

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