Electricity, Magnetism: Electrical Charge, Coulomb’s law, electric field, dipole and flux of electric field and flux density, Gauss’s law, electric potential, potential energy. Magnetic field, Magnetic flux and flux density, Ampere’s law, Biot Savart’s law, Faraday’s law of Induction, Inductance, Energy in the Magnetic field. Optics: Defects of images, spherical aberration, astigmatism, coma, distortion, curvature, chromatic aberration. Light, interference of light, Young’s experiment, Fresnel prism, interference. Newton’s rings, interferometers, Diffraction, resolving power of optical instruments, diffraction grating; Polarization and polarized light. Brewster’s law, polarization by double refraction, Nicol prism, optical activity and Polarimeters. The course includes lab works based on theory taught.
