DAMP Physics, IITB

Instructor Name Avinash Mahajan, Pragya Das Prerequisites NA Important Topics Covered Experiments in solid state physics involving measurement of electron spin resonance, nuclear magnetic spin resonance and theoretical concepts behind these phenomenon, measurement of temperature dependence of semiconductor and band gap, dielectric constant of materials, and Hall effect. Experiments in nuclear physics involving measurement of absorption coefficient of Gamma rays, gamma ray energies using scintillation spectrometer, Compton scattering, angular correlation of gamma ray photons released in electron positron annihilation, working of Geiger counter. Assignments 10 experiments in total. 5 in NP and 5 in SSP. Grading of each experiment varies depending on NP/SSP experiment.   Exams and Grading One practical exam and one quiz before endsems. Quiz is mostly easy, tests concepts and only a few questions are factual.    Books/Online Study Material Reading...

Instructor Name: Prof. Pragya Das Course Type: Theory Pre-requisites:  Quantum Mechanics 1, Classical Mechanics Course Content: 1. Nuclear Structure 2. Independent Particle Model 3. Shell Model 4. Nuclear Decay (Alpha, Beta, Gamma) 5. Nuclear Reactions (Direct and Compound) 6. Elementary Particle Physics 7. Applications of Nuclear Physics in Medicine Books: Samuel S. Wong, Introductory Nuclear Physics Bernard L. Cohen, Concepts of Nuclear Physics David Griffiths, Introduction to Elementary Particles Lectures: There is no attendance, but 10% of total marks is allotted to solving tutorial questions on the board to encourage active participation. Only slides were used. The content is usually on the easier side with basic quantum mechanics and classical mechanics involved.   Assignments: Timely tutorials were uploaded and marked problems were solved in the class voluntarily by students with the marks incentive. Exams and Grading: Midsem (30...

Instructor Name: Prof. Pragya Das Course Type: Core Pre-requisites:  Quantum Mechanics I, Perturbation Theory part of QM II Course Content:  Binding Energy, Magnetic Moments; Radioactive Decay: alpha, beta, gamma; Deuteron; Nuclear Models: Independent Particle and Shell Models; Reactions; Elementary particles: Isospin, conserved quantum numbers, quarks (fact-based) Books:  Wong - Intro Nucl Phy; Cohen - Concepts of Nucl Phy; Enge - Intro Nucle Phy; Lilley - Nucl Phy; Hyde - Basic ideasin Nucl Phy; Burcham, Jobes - Nucl & Part Phy; Kane - Modern Elem Part Phy; Griffiths - Intro Elem Part (haven't read any of these - just mentioning the list given in the slides) Lectures:  Attendance is flexible; slides require some decoding if you don't attend lectures; attending doesn't make much of a difference either since Prof. Das mostly just reads out what's in the slides Assignments:  Tutorials uploaded; no grading; weekly discussions; questions are u...