Combined First and Second Semester B. Tech.

Degree Examination
(Common for all B.Tech. branches)

EN09 103-ENGINEERING PHYSICS

Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 70

Part A
(Answer all questions: 5 x 2 marks = 10 marks)

1. What is meant by temporal coherence in optics?

2. Mention two uses of varactor diode.
3. Distinguish between spontaneous emission and stimulated emission.
4. Why the extra-ordinary wavefront is different from ordinary wavefront in Doubly
refractive crystals?
5. What is a carbon nanotube?

PART B
(Answer any four questions: 4 x 5 marks = 20 marks)

6. Ordinary light source is not used for crystal diffraction. Explain why?

7. A plane transmission grating has 6000lines/cm, calculate i) The highest order

spectrum that can be seen with light of wavelength 40000A, ii) The longest
wavelength of light for which spectrum can be obtained.

8. The volume of a room is 600m3.The wall area of the room is 220m2, the floor area is
120m2, and the ceiling area is 220m2.The average sound absorption coefficient for the
wall is .03; for the ceiling is 0.80;and for the floor is 0.06. Calculate the average
sound absorption coefficient and the reverberation time.

9. Derive an expression for the numerical aperture of a fibre in terms of refractive

indices of the core and cladding.

10. Derive the condition for brightness and darkness in interference of light.

11. Show that for an intrinsic semiconductor, the fermi energy level lies at the middle of
bandgap energy.

PART C
(Answer section (a) or section (b) of each question: 4 x 10 marks = 40 marks)

12. \a) Explain with theory the colours of a thin film viewed in sunlight.

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 (b) Explain what is meant by Miller indices of a lattice plane? Derive an expression
for interplanar spacing of a set of Millerplanes in a cubic crystal in terms of
lattice constant.

13. a) Explain population inversion and optical pumping. Describe the construction and
working of a Semiconductor laser with band diagram.
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b) Distinguish between Stepindex fibre and Graded index fibre. Explain the principle
of propagation of light in optical fibres. Mention any 3 advantages of optical fibre
over the normal cables.

14. a) What are superconductors? Explain type 1 and type 2 super conductors. Describe
the working of squid.
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b) What is a tunnel diode? Discuss its properties and working with the help of its
characteristics. Mention two uses

15. a) State Heisenbergs uncertainty principle in two forms. Derive the time dependent
Shrodinger wave equation for a free particle.
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(b) Describe with theory how the velocity of ultrasonic waves is determined using
Ultrasonic Diffractometer. Mention two applications of ultrasonics.

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