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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES: B. Sc. PHYSICS

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS	After successful completion of three year degree program in physics a student should be able to;
Programme Outcomes	PO-1. Demonstrate, solve and an understanding of major concepts in all disciplines of physics. PO-2. Solve the problem and also think methodically, independently and draw a logical conclusion. PO-3. Employ critical thinking and the scientific knowledge to design, carry out, record and analyze the results of Physics experiments. PO-4. Create an awareness of the impact of Physics on the society, and development outside the scientific community. PO-5 To inculcate the scientific temperament in the students and outside the scientific community. PO-6. Use modern techniques, decent equipments.
Programme Specific Outcomes	PSO-1. Gain the knowledge of Physics through theory and practical‟s. PSO-2. Understand good laboratory practices and safety. PSO-3. Develop research oriented skills. PSO-4. Make aware and handle the sophisticated instruments/equipments.

COURSE OUTCOMES

B.SC.– I (YEAR)

COURSE	OUTCOMES
PAPER- I (MECHANICS, PROPERTIES OF MATTER, OSCILLATIONS AND VECTORS)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
MECHANICS	CO-1. Know the Cartesian, spherical, polar and cylindrical co-ordinate systems. CO-2 To understand the motion under central force. CO-3 To understand the rigid body motion .
PROPERTIES OF MATTER	CO-1. Study the Kinematics. CO-2. Study the Hook’s Law, Poiseulle’s Law, Stokes Law, and its applications. CO-3. Discuss the elasticity. CO-4. Obtain the Reynolds number. CO-5. Study the motion of charged particles in Electric and Magnetic Fields.
VECTOR CALCULUS	CO-1. Study the Scalars and Vectors. CO-2. To understand the dot, cross product and triple vector product. CO-3 Study the surface and volume integral.
OSCILLATIONS	CO-1. Know the simple harmonic oscillator. CO-2. Study the concept of pendulum(simple , compound and torsion pendulum) CO-3. To Understand the principal of superposition. CO-4. Study the Coupled oscillation and Damped and Forced oscillation.
PAPER- II (ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM AND ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND, ELCTROSTATICS, MAGNETOSTATICS, DIELECTRIC, STEADY AND ALTERNATING CURRENTS.	CO-1. Study the vector algebra, differentiation and integration and its use. CO-2. Study the electric charge, force and field. CO-3. Understanding the electromagnetic waves and its applications. CO-4. Study the macro and micro properties of dielectrics. CO-5. Study the steady and alternating currents and its applications.

COURSE OUTCOMES

B.SC.– II (YEAR)

COURSE	OUTCOMES
PAPER- I (THERMODYNAMICS, KINETIC THEORY AND STATISTICAL PHSICS)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
THERMODYNAMICS	CO-1. Understanding the laws of thermodynamics. CO-2. Understanding the concept of entropy. CO-3. Know the thermodynamics relationship CO-4. Study the black body radiation and thermal radiation. CO-5. Study the Stefan-Boltzman Law, Wien’s Displacement Law and Raleigh-Jean’s Law.
KINETIC THEORY	CO-1. Study the Maxwellien distribution of speeds in an ideal gas. CO-2. Understating the transport phenomena is gas. CO-3. Study the liquefaction of gases.
STATISTICAL PHYSICS	CO-1. Understanding the statistical basis of thermodynamics. CO-2. Know the statistical postulate. CO-3. Study the ensemble. CO-4. Understanding the Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac condition. CO-5. Understanding the -Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.
PAPER- II (WAVES, ACOUSTICS AND OPTICS)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
WAVES , ACOUSTICS AND OPTICS	CO-1. Understanding the Reflection, Refraction and Diffraction of sound wave. CO-2. Understand the principle of superposition of waves, so thus describe the formation of standing waves. CO-3. Explain several phenomena we can observe in everyday life that can be explained as wave phenomena. CO-4. Understand the working of selected optical instruments like biprism, interferometer, diffraction grating, and holograms.

COURSE OUTCOMES

B.SC.– III (YEAR)

COURSE	OUTCOMES
PAPER- I (RELATIVITY, QUANTUM MECHANICS, ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
RELATIVITY	CO-1. Learn about inertial and non-inertial systems and essentials of special theory of relativity. CO-2. Learn about postulates of the special theory of relativity. CO-3. To study the Lorentz transformations on space-time and other four vectors. CO-4. Michelson-Morley Experiment and its outcome CO-5. Significance of mass energy equivalence.
QUANTUM MECHANICS	CO-1. Understand the theory of quantum measurements, wave packets and uncertainty principle. CO-2. Know main aspects of the inadequacies of classical mechanics and understand historical development of quantum mechanics and ability to discuss and interpret experiments that reveal the dual nature of matter. CO-3. Understand the central concepts of quantum mechanics: wave functions, momentum and energy operator, the Schrodinger equation, time dependent and time independent cases, probability density and the normalization techniques.
ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS	CO-1. Learn the ground state properties of a nucleus – the constituents and their properties, mass number and atomic number, relation between the mass number and the radius and the mass number, average density, range of force, saturation property, stability curve, the concepts of packing fraction and binding energy, binding energy per nucleon vs. mass number graph, explanation of fusion and fission from the nature of the binding energy graph. CO-2. Know about the nuclear models and their roles in explaining the ground state properties of the nucleus –(i) the liquid drop model (ii) Shell Model. CO-3. Gain knowledge on the basic aspects of particle Physics.
PAPER- II (SOLID STATE PHYSICS, SOLID STATE DEVICES AND ELECTRONICS)	After completion of these courses students should be able to;
SOLID STATE PHYSICS, SOLID STATE DEVICES AND ELECTRONICS	CO-1. A brief idea about crystalline and amorphous substances, about lattice, unit cell, miller indices, reciprocal lattice, concept of Brillouin zones and diffraction of X-rays by crystalline materials CO-2. Secured an understanding about the dielectric and ferroelectric properties of materials. CO-3. Understand the basic idea about superconductors and their classifications. CO-4. Understand the physics of insulators, semiconductor and conductors with special emphasis on the elementary band theory of semiconductors.