Crystalline and amorphous solids, translational symmetry. Elementary ideas about crystal structure, lattice and bases, unit cell, reciprocal lattice, fundamental types of lattices, Miller indices, lattice planes, simple cubic, f.c.c. and b.c.c. lattices. Laue and Bragg equations. Determination of crystal structure with X-rays. Different types of bonding- ionic, covalent, metallic, van der Waals and hydrogen, Lattice vibration and Elastic constants.
Group and phase velocities, classical velocity of a particle and the group velocity of the wave representing the particle. Uncertainty principle, the superposition principle, calculation of expectation values, Schrödinger equation and its solution for one, two and three dimensional boxes. Solution of Schrödinger equation for the one dimensional harmonic oscillator. Reflection and transmission at a step potential.
Special Theory of Relativity: Postulates of STR, Michelson-Morley experiment, Lorentz transformation and applications: (i) Length contraction; (ii) Time dilation; (iii) Addition of Velocities; (iv) Mass-velocity variation, and (v) Mass-energy equivalence.
Natural and artificial radioactivity, Units of radio activity, radioactive decay laws and radioactive dating Nuclear Decay: Alpha decay, Geiger Nuttall Law Beta Decay, Fission and Fusion, Classification of fundamental forces, Elementry particles (quarks, baryons, mesons, leptons); Spin and parity assignments, isospin, strangeness; Gellmann-Nishijima formula.
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