Department of Physics(SF)

TThe Department of Physics was started in the year 2016.There were professors and lab assistant for teaching the theory and practical. Since then the department has been offering the course to cater the needs of the science and engineering sectors. The department has adequate number of class rooms, staff room and a well equipped laboratory to accommodate nearly 40 number of major students and 40 number of ancillary students

started in 2016

OVERVIEW

Objectives

The objective of this course is to make the students well skilled, aware of the latest trend in science and technology. Students can pursue higher studies and research in the area of popular fields in physics. Because most of the students hail from economically poor strata of the society. Students from local and eighbouring areas (in and around Madurai) join in this course.

Eligibility for Admission

Candidates seeking admission to the B.Sc Physics course must have passed the higher secondary examination (I Group and II Group) conducted by the Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Board or any other equivalent examination approved by the Syndicate of the Madurai Kamaraj University.

Duration of the Course

The duration of the course shall be three academic years comprising of six semesters with two semesters in each academic year.

Medium of Instruction

The medium of instruction is English.

Course Content

The B.Sc., Physics course consists of 33 papers. It includes all the core, skill, ancillary and practical papers. Some important papers are Mechanics and properties of matter, Thermal Physics, Energy Physics, Solid State Physics, Classical and Quantum mechanics, Bio Physics and Laser and spectroscopy etc.,
General Practical and Electronic practical (both analog and digital) are the important practical for major students and mechanics, heat, light and sound practical are the ancillary related one.

Special features:

• Well qualified and dedicated staff.
• Skill based experiments in all the subjects.
• Maintaining department library with nearly 300 books.
• Laboratory is equipped with LCD Projector and computers in addition to the modern equipments like Ultrasonic interferometer, CRO etc., for demonstrating the experiments.
• Subjects like Bio-Physics, Nano physics are introduced in the course.

Profile of the department:

Prof. A.M. KALPANA is the Head of the Department. After introduction of the autonomous system in the college, the syllabus has been revised this year. There is a small department library which is useful for lending purpose. The department has two computers along with the printer. The Laboratory is well equipped with modern equipments like CRO, VTVM, Digital Multimeter and Ultrasonic equipments for use of the students.
Recently a LCD projector has been purchased and installed in the laboratory to make it as a smart Lab. Books are added every year to the department library for the students and staff. Every teacher is engaged in counseling of students. According to the college system, every teacher has to look after 16 students in each class. The internal marks and external marks are entered. All the teachers are participating in the seminars, conferences, workshop conducted by other colleges and Universities with the National and State level funding agencies.