Semiconductor Devices and Applications ( 10 Lectures )

Semiconductor Devices and Applications: Introduction to P-N Junction Diode and V-I characteristics, Half wave and Full-wave rectifiers, capacitor filter. Zener diode and its characteristics, Zener diode as voltage regulator. Regulated power supply IC based on 78XX and 79XX series, Introduction to BJT, its input-output and transfer characteristics, BJT as a single stage CE amplifier, frequency response and bandwidth.

Operational amplifier and its applications ( 8 Lectures )

Operational amplifier and its applications: Introduction to operational amplifiers, Op-amp input modes and parameters, Op-amp in open loop configuration, op-amp with negative feedback, study of practical op-amp IC 741, inverting and non-inverting amplifier applications: summing and difference amplifier, unity gain buffer, comparator, integrator and differentiator

Timing Circuits and Oscillators( 6 Lectures )

Timing Circuits and Oscillators: RC-timing circuits, IC 555 and its applications as table and mono-stable multi-vibrators, positive feedback, Barkhausen's criteria for oscillation, R-C phase shift and Wein bridge oscillator.

Digital Electronics Fundamentals

Digital Electronics Fundamentals: Difference between analog and digital signals, Boolean algebra, Basic and Universal Gates, Symbols, Truth tables, logic expressions, Logic simplification using Kmap, Logic ICs, half and full adder/subtractor, multiplexers, de-multiplexers, flip-flops, shift registers, counters, Block diagram of microprocessor/microcontroller and their applications.

Electronic Communication Systems

Electronic Communication Systems: The elements of communication system, IEEE frequency spectrum, Transmission media: wired and wireless, need of modulation, AM and FM modulation schemes, Mobile communication systems: cellular concept and block diagram of GSM system.

Statics ( 7 Lectures )

Force System, Moment of a force about a point and an axis; Equivalent force and moment.                  

Equilibrium ( 6 Lectures )

Free body diagram; equations of equilibrium; problems in two and three dimension; plane frames and trusses.

Friction ( 8 Lectures )

Laws of Coulomb friction, impending motion problems involving large and small contact surfaces; square threaded screw; principle of virtual work and stability.

Dynamics ( 6 Lectures )

Kinematics and kinetics of particles dynamics in rectangular coordinates cylindrical coordinates and in terms of path variables.

Properties of Area ( 8 lectures )

Center of mass; Moments of inertia; kinematics of rigid bodies;Chasle’s Theorem, concept of fixed vector, velocity and acceleration of particles in different frames of references. General plane motion.

Work, Energy and Momentum ( 7 lectures )

Work & Energy and impulse and Momentum methods for particles and rigid bodies: Conservation of momentum, coefficient of restitution, moment of momentum equation.

1. Verification of triangle law & parallelogram law of forces.
2. Verification of polygon law of forces.
3. Crank Lever apparatus.
4. Verification of support reactions of a simply supportedbeam.
5. Verification of condition of equilibrium of a system offorces.
6. Verification of axial forces in the members of a truss.
7. Verification of equilibrium of three dimensional forces..
8. Determination of coefficient of friction between twosurfaces

Waves ( 3 Lectures )

Mechanical and electrical Simple Harmonic Oscillators, Damped Harmonic Oscillator, Forced mechanical and Electrical oscillators, Impedance, Steady State motion of forced Damped Harmonic Oscillator

NON-DISPERSIVE TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL WAVES (4 LECTURES)

Transverse wave on a string, The wave equation on a string, Harmonic waves, Reflection and transmission of waves at a boundary, Impedance matching, Standing waves and their Eigen Frequencies, Longitudinal waves and the wave equation for them, Acoustics waves

LIGHT AND OPTICS (3 LECTURES)

Light as an Electromagnetic wave and Fresnel equations, Reflectance and transmittance, Brewster’s angle, Total internal reflection, and evanescent wave. Mirrors and lenses and optical instruments based on them

WAVE OPTICS (5 LECTURES)

Huygen's Principle, Superposition of waves and interference of light by wavefront splitting and amplitude Splitting; Young’s double slit experiment, Newton’s rings, Michelson interferometer, Mach Zehnder interferometer. Farunhofer diffraction from a single slit and a circular aperture, The rayleigh criterion for limit of resolution and its application to vision; Diffraction gratings and their resolving power

LASERS ( 5 Lectures )

Einstein’s theory of matter Radiation interaction and a and b coefficients; Amplification of light by population inversion, different types of lasers: Gas lasers (he-ne, co2), Solid-state Lasers (Ruby, Neodymium), Dye Lasers; Properties of Laser Beams: Mono-Chromaticity

SOLUTION OF WAVE EQUATION (6 LECTURES)

Solution of Stationary-State Schrodinger equation for One Dimensional problems–particle in a box, Particle in attractive Delta-function potential, Square-well potential, Linear Harmonic oscillator. scattering from a potential Barrier and Tunneling; Related examples like Alpha- decay, Field-ionization and scanning tunneling Microscope, Tunneling in semiconductor structures. Three Dimensional problems: Particle in three Dimensional box and related examples..

( 5 Lectures )

Live stock population, animal mortality and availability of hides and skns in India.

( 12 Lectures )

Statistical analysis of leather Industries, Leather, Leather products ( National & International Scenario).

( 5 Lectures )

Chemical constituents of hides and skins.

( 15 Lectures )

General principles involved in raw hide and skin preservation,
assortment and their processing, pre tanning, tanning and post tanning operations.

( 5 Lectures )

Defects in leather, Microscopy & Bacteriology

PDE ( 14 Lectures )

Definition of Partial Differential Equations, First order partial differential equations, solutions of first order linear PDEs; Solution to homogenous and non-homogenous linear partial differential equations of second order by complimentary function and particular integral method. Second-order linear equations and their classification, Initial and boundary conditions, D'Alembert's solution of the wave equation; Duhamel's principle for one dimensional wave equation. Heat diffusion and vibration problems, Separation of variables method to simple problems in Cartesian coordinates. The Laplacian in plane, cylindrical and spherical polar coordinates, solutions with Bessel functions and Legendre functions. One dimensional diffusion equation and its solution by separation of variables.

Probability ( 12 Lectures )

Probability spaces, conditional probability, independence; Discrete random variables, Independent random variables, the multinomial distribution, Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution, infinite sequences of Bernoulli trials, sums of independent random variables; Expectation of Discrete Random Variables, Moments, Variance of a sum, Correlation coefficient, Chebyshev's Inequality. Continuous random variables and their properties, distribution functions and densities, normal, exponential and gamma densities. Bivariate distributions and their properties, distribution of sums and quotients, conditional densities, Bayes' rule.

Statics ( 12 Lectures )

Basic Statistics, Measures of Central tendency: Moments, skewness and Kurtosis - Probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal - evaluation of statistical parameters for these three distributions, Correlation and regression – Rank correlation. Curve fitting by the method of least squares- fitting of straight lines, second degree parabolas and more general curves. Test of significance: Large sample test for single proportion, difference of proportions, Tests for single mean, difference of means, and difference of standard deviations. Test for ratio of variances - Chi- square test for goodness of fit and independence of attributes.