About Department

Physics is a time honored research subject due to its potential applications. Physics is one of the core subjects that has vast applications in more or less all the disciplines. Physics majors seek to understand the laws that govern the universe and use on the general application of mathematical and scientific principles of physics to the analysis and evaluation of various problems.

Department of Physics offers below Course / Programme

Admission

Department of Physics, OUTR, Bhubaneswar running a 5-year integrated M.Sc. and 2-year M.Sc. programme in Applied Physics was established in the year 2014 with specialization in condensed matter and particle physics.

The student strength of 5-year and 2-year M.Sc. programme are 30 (admission through OJEE counselling, Odisha, website: https://ojee.nic.in) and 20 (admission by career marks and 4 seats for reserved category) respectively in each year.

Department of Physics is participating in the courses offered by other departments.

Person with expertise

To teach B.Tech., Integrated M.Sc. and M.Sc. course, 15 numbers of faculties are appointed including visiting professor faculties from Utkal University and Other State Govt. colleges. The faculties are engaged in research in the areas of Condensed Matter Physics, Cosmology, Material Science, Nano-Science etc.

Resources

The Department has well-equipped laboratories both for B.Tech, 5-year Integrated and 2-year M.Sc. programme.

Students will attend labs where they will see physics in action and discussion sections. Physics department has 9 laboratories including computer laboratory. Experiment set-ups are available in the department for Sessional work to substantiate the theory being taught in the classes. It is equipped with all the apparatus required as per the curriculum. Adequate number of sets of each experiment is available so as to accommodate 30 students at a time in the laboratory. The dark room of the physics lab is well equipped to conduct optical experiments.

A comprehensive demonstration carried out by the teachers for each experiment to help the students in better understanding of the subject. Besides that in every practical class there is a viva-voce test of the concerned experiment to asses the understanding of the students.