Engineering Physics 25PY101

19 Sep 2025 - fubar - Sreekar Guddeti

Some useful resources for the Engineering Physics that I am taking at Vignan University, Vadlamudi.

Tests

• Class test on basics

pre M1T1

• pre M1T1 test Set 1
• pre M1T1 test Set 2

• Class test on conversion factors
• Class test on model graphs
• Mock M1T1 Test

M1T1

• M1T1 test Set 1
• M1T1 test Set 2

pre M2T1

• pre M2T1 test Set 1
• pre M2T1 test Set 2

Solutions

• Solutions for test on conversion factors

Slide Handouts

• Course Structure
• M1U1 - Classical Free Electron Theory
• M1U2 - Quantum mechanics
• M2U1 - Quantum theories of solids

Module 1 Unit 1

• Introduction to metals
• Expression for electrical conductivity
  • Electron motion without electrical field
  • Electron motion under electrical field
• Introduction to semiconductors
• Electrical conductivity of semiconductors
• Hall effect
• Panchabhuta

Module 1 Unit 2

• Experiments of quantum physics
• Theory of quantum physics
• Particle in a 1D box

Module 2 Unit 1

• Quantum free electron theory
• Fermi-Dirac distribution
• Electronic specific heat of solids
• Quantum band theory
• Fermi level in semiconductors - intrinsic and extrinsic

Module 2 Unit 2

• pn junction

Assignments

Module 1 Unit 1

• Assignment on extrinsic semiconductors
• Assignment on carrier drift
• Assignment on Hall effect

Module 1 Unit 2

• Assignment on experiments of quantum physics - Black body radiation
• Assignment on wave function of Schrodinger equation

Module banks

• Module bank for Module 2

References

• For Module 2 pre-T1 slot 2

Laboratory procedure

• Lab 101

Youtube videos

Module 1 Unit 1

• Copper electroplating
• LED light in nitrogen

Module 1 Unit 2

• Frustrated total internal reflection
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope

New materials

• Superconducting levitation
• Superconducting Maglev
• Diamond grown by Chemical Vapour Deposition
• Immersion cooling using dielectric liquid