Laboratory Facilities and Experiments in Physics Lab.

The Department of Physics offers a wide range of Under Graduate level and Post Graduate level experiments:

Mechanics

1. Flywheel
2. Katers Pendulum
3. Bar Pendulum
4. Moment if Inertia of an Irregular Body: Torsional Pendulum
5. Young’s modulus by bending of beams
6. Modulus of rigidity of wire using Maxwells Needle

Optics

1. Determination of wavelength and Divergence of laser light.

2. Study of interference using Newton’s rings

3. Refractive index using a prism and spectrometer

4. Fresnels Biprism Experiment to determine Wavelength/Refractive Index

5. Resolving Power of Telescope

Electricity and Magnetism

• Verification of Ohm’s law

• Measurement of resistance using a Wheatstone bridge

• Study of RC and RL circuits

• Determination of magnetic field using a tangent galvanometer

Electronics

• Characteristics of PN junction diode and Zener diode

• Study of transistor characteristics (CE configuration)

• Design and analysis of rectifiers and amplifiers

• Logic gate verification and basic digital circuits

Modern Physics

• Photoelectric effect

• Determination of Planck’s constant

• Study of radioactive decay (simulation-based/experimental)

• Semiconductor band gap determination

Thermal Physics

• Determination of thermal conductivity of a bad conductor

• Specific heat capacity using calorimetric methods

• Verification of laws of thermodynamics

In addition to these, the Department continually upgrades its laboratory infrastructure to incorporate new experiments and emerging technologies, ensuring that students remain aligned with current scientific developments.