ENGINEERING PHYSICS (R-23)
Short Answer Questions (2 Marks)
1) What is the significance of coherence in interference of light ?
2) How polarized light can be identified?
3) What is the necessary condition for Fraunhofer diffraction?
4) Define plane of polarization and plane of vibration.
5) State the principle of superposition of light waves.
6) What are the conditions for interference of waves.
7) When light waves bend around the obstacles? Explain.
8) Name seven crystal systems.
9) What is the significance of Miller indices?
10) Define crystal planes.
11) What is unit cell and primitive cell ?
12) What are crystallographic axes?
13) Explain Bragg’s law of X-ray diffraction.
14) Write down the limiting condition for Bragg's law of X-diffraction
15) What are the magnetic domains?
16) What is Bohr magneton ?
17) Relate relative permeability with magnetic susceptibility.
18) Define point of retentivity and coercive force.
19) Define electric polarization of a dielectric material.
20) Differentiate dielectric constant and dielectric susceptibility.
21) What is wave particle duality?
22) Write down the important postulations of quantum free electron theory.
23) What are matter waves? Express their wavelength in terms of energy.
24) What are the demerits of classical free electron theory?
25) Explain physical significance of wave function.
26) What is the de Broglie’s hypothesis of matter waves? Explain.
27) What does Fermi Energy represent?
28) What is fermi level and fermi energy ?
29) What are semiconducting materials? Give examples.
30) What is Hall effect ?
31) What are the extrinsic semiconductors?
ENGINEERING PHYSICS (R-23)
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1) Explain with ray diagram, theory of interference in thin films by reflected system.
2) Describe theory Newton’s rings with relevant diagrams.
3) Determine the wave length of given light by forming the Newton’s rings.
4) Explain the colors in thin films.
5) Explain Quarter and half wave plates.
6) What is double refraction? Explain the construction and working principle of a Nicol
prism with a neat ray diagram.
7) Determine the atomic radius and packing factor for BCC and FCC lattices.
8) Draw (110) and (111) planes in the SC crystal. What do you infer from these
diagrams?
9) Deduce Laue's equation of diffraction of X-rays and obtain Bragg's diffraction
condition from them.
10) Compare powder X-ray diffraction and single-crystal X-ray diffraction.
11) Deduce an expression for the inter-planar distance in terms of Miller indices for a
cubic structure.
12) Define the unit cell and describe the lattice parameters.
13) Describe Bragg's spectrometer and explain how it is used to study the structure of
crystals.
14) Obtain an expression for Schrodinger's time independent wave equation.
15) Obtain relationship between the three electric vectors in a dielectric material.
16) What is an Ionic polarization? Obtain an expression for Ionic polarizability.
17) Explain electronic polarization and show that electronic polarizability is directly
proportional to the volume of the atom.
18) Obtain Clausius-Mossotti equation.
19) What are polar and non polar dielectric materials? Explain
20) Distinguish between soft and hard magnetic materials.
21) What are the Ferro magnetic materials? Write down their properties.
22) How magnetic moment arises in magnetic materials? Explain.
23) What are the Ferro magnetic materials? Write down their properties.
24) How magnetic moment arises in magnetic materials? Explain.
25) Obtain an expression for Schrodinger's time dependent wave equation.
26) Explain the physical significance of wave function.
27) Discuss the merits and demerits of classical free electron theory. Explain the salient
features of free electron theory.
28) Describe the seven crystal systems with diagrams.
29) Draw the planes (101), (111) and (110) in SC crystal with neat diagrams.
30) Describe the powder method and determination of crystal structure with suitable
diagrams.
31) Expalin the atomic origin of permanent magnetism in magnetic materials.
or
Explain the atomic origin of Ferromagnetism?
32) Discuss the dual nature of matter waves with suitable examples.
33) Discuss temperature dependence of susceptibility of Para and Ferro magnetic
materials.
34) Classify various lattice types in the cubic crystal system and specify the effective
number of lattice points per unit cell in each type.
35) Define packing fraction and coordination number. Obtain the expression for packing
fraction of SC crystal.
36) Describe the Laue method for determination of crystal structure.
37) Solve the Schrodinger wave equation for a particle in a one-dimensional box.
38) Explain the properties of matter waves.
39) Obtain an expression for the electrical conductivity of a metal based on quantum
free electron theory.
40) Explain the drawbacks of classical free electron theory.
41) Obtain an expression for Schrodinger's time independent wave equation.
42) Explain Fermi-Dirac distribution function. Explain how it varies with temperature with
the help of plots.
43) What are the postulates of quantum free electron theory? Explain.
44) What is Hall effect? Obtain the expression for Hall coefficient.
45) Explain the applications of Hall effect.