Engineering Physics by Rajagopal (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents Preface 1 Conducting Materials 2 Semiconducting Materials  3 Magnetic Materials And Superconducting Materials  4 Dielectric Materials  5 Modern Engineering Materials Index  "This book is a sequel to the author?s Engineering Physics Part I and is written to address the course curriculum in Engineering Physics-II of the BTech syllabus of the Anna University The book is designed to serve the needs of the first-year undergraduate students of all branches of engineering It provides a sound understanding of the important phenomena in physics The book exposes the students to fundamental knowledge in areas of Properties of metals; Drude--Lorentz theory of metals; Wiedemann--Franz law; Lorentz number; Quantum free electron theory; Band theory of solids Properties of semiconducting materials; compound semiconductors; Hall effect in semiconductors Magnetic behaviour of materials and their classification into diamagnetic paramagnetic ferromagnetic antiferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic materials; explanation of hysteresis; hard and soft magnetic materials Phenomenon of superconductivity properties and types of superconductors; BCS theory of superconductivity; normal and superconducting tunnelling; applications of superconductors Properties of dielectric materials; types of polarization dielectric losses; dielectric breakdown; applications of dielectric materials; ferroelectric materials Properties of metallic glasses; introduction to nanomaterials and their applications; properties of carbon nanotubes and their applications; shape memory alloys; properties of biomaterials" 208 pp.