Engineering Physics

This book is written to address the requirements of the course curriculum in Engineering Physics for the first-year students of all branches of engineering. The book exposes students to fundamental knowledge in

• Ultrasonics and their industrial and medical applications
• Properties of lasers and their industrial and medical applications
• Types of optical fibres, their geometries and use in communication systems
• Black body radiation, Compton effect, matter waves and Schrödinger wave equation
• Types of optical instruments and their usage
• Principles of crystallography, structure of solids and nature of crystal defects
• Properties of conducting, semiconducting, magnetic, dielectric and superconducting materials, and their applications
• Nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes, shape memory alloys and metallic glasses, and their applications

KEY FEATURES
• Includes numerous solved problems to enable students to acquire a sound understanding of the subject.
• Gives chapter-end short and descriptive type questions to test students’ comprehension of the major concepts in each chapter.
• Provides problems at the end of each chapter to help students assess their progress and familiarize the students with the types of questions set in the examinations.