EP 226 Waves, Oscillations and Optics (Spring 2016-17)
Instructor Name: Prof. Tapanendu Kundu
Course Type: Core
Pre-requisites: None
Course Content: Oscillations: Damped Oscillations, Forced Oscillations in both spring mass systems and electrical circuits
Waves: Travelling waves, Standing waves (Standing Waves on a string, Cavity Quantisation), Maxwell's Equations, Fourier Transform, Surface Plasmons and Bulk Plasmons
Optics: Polarisation, Fresnel Equations, Waveguides
Books: (For Waves and Oscillations)
Berkeley Physics Course Vol 3 (by Frank S. Crawford)
(For Optics)
K.K. Sharma
Optics, Eugene Hecht
Lectures: The Prof did not use slides at all. Everything was taught on the board. A lot of experiments were demonstrated in lectures.
Attendance was taken everyday.
The lectures were comprehensive enough, but on some very rare occasions, the derivations were a little tough to understand.
Assignments: No assignments were given for the course. There were two tutorials given as practice problems, one before the midsem and one before the endsem. We did not have the solutions for the tutorials though, and neither were they discussed.
Exams and Grading: There were just two exams: Midsem and Endsem. However, there was a graded course project.
The weightage of the Midsem was 30%, Endsem 50% and the rest 20% was the weightage of the course project.
Respondent: Shobhna Misra
Course Type: Core
Pre-requisites: None
Course Content: Oscillations: Damped Oscillations, Forced Oscillations in both spring mass systems and electrical circuits
Waves: Travelling waves, Standing waves (Standing Waves on a string, Cavity Quantisation), Maxwell's Equations, Fourier Transform, Surface Plasmons and Bulk Plasmons
Optics: Polarisation, Fresnel Equations, Waveguides
Books: (For Waves and Oscillations)
Berkeley Physics Course Vol 3 (by Frank S. Crawford)
(For Optics)
K.K. Sharma
Optics, Eugene Hecht
Lectures: The Prof did not use slides at all. Everything was taught on the board. A lot of experiments were demonstrated in lectures.
Attendance was taken everyday.
The lectures were comprehensive enough, but on some very rare occasions, the derivations were a little tough to understand.
Assignments: No assignments were given for the course. There were two tutorials given as practice problems, one before the midsem and one before the endsem. We did not have the solutions for the tutorials though, and neither were they discussed.
Exams and Grading: There were just two exams: Midsem and Endsem. However, there was a graded course project.
The weightage of the Midsem was 30%, Endsem 50% and the rest 20% was the weightage of the course project.
Respondent: Shobhna Misra
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