SEC-PHYSICS
Semester-III
SEC-3:PHYS3051: Basic Instruments and their Usage (Credits: 03)
F.M. = 50 (Theory - 40, Internal Assessment – 10)
Course Objective:This course is designed to give the students an exposure with various aspects of electrical and optical instruments and their applications in experimental physics.
Electrical/ Electronic Instruments
Unit 1: Voltage and Current Sources
Unit 2: CRO
Unit 3: Signal Generators
Unit 4: Digital Instruments
Optical Instruments
Unit 1 Optical microscope:Simple microscope,Compound microscope, Electron microscope:Principal components,Working principle and uses.
Unit 2 Telescope: Principal components,Working principleand uses of different types of telescopes (Astronomical telescope, Terrestrial telescope, Reflecting telescope).
Unit3 An objective lens and an eyepiece or ocular lens: Elements, Angular magnification of a telescope, Angular magnification of a microscope, Huygens eyepiece, Ramsden eyepiece.
Unit4 Spectrometer: Principal components, Role of individual components, Uses, Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-VIS), Near-infrared (NIR) and Raman spectrometers.