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Workshop - safety precautions; Basic hand tools and bench work practice; Plain and cylindrical generation of smooth surface using power operated machines; Selection and properties of materials used for construction - metallic and non-metallic; Metal joining devices and adhesives in common use; Soldering techniques and wrap joints; Multi-meters and oscilloscopes; Auto-ranging in measuring instruments; A survey of the use of electronics circuit devices e.g.; diodes; transistors including FET; integrated circuits; photocells; Selection; use and care of test instruments; Survey of pick-ups and transducer devices; Basic circuit synthesis and analysis; Pulse circuits; Instrumentation and measuring techniques: impedance matching; Probes - active and input and output impedance using the scope

Properties of Energy Bands in Solids: Wave function for an electron in a periodic potential; energy bands in a perturbed nearly free electron systems; Energy band calculations; density of states in energy bands; Introduction to energy bands in solids; Optical processes in solids; Absorption and reflection phenomena; Carrier recombination and luminescence; direct and indirect transitions; Excitations; colour centres and lasers; Photoelectric phenomena

Equations and fundamental laws governing atmospheric motion on rotating earth; Orders of magnitude for different scale of motion; The hydrostatic and geotropic approximations; The thermal wind surfaces of discontinuity; Gravity waves; acoustic waves and Rossby waves; Tidal oscillations; Transformation of basic equations into pressure coordinates formulation; Vorticity and divergence equations; Kelvin's Bjerkness' theorem; quasi-geostrophic models; The Omega equation; The boundary layer; the Ekman layer and incorporation of friction into quasi-geostrophic models; Map projections; Stable and unstable waves; Introduction to numerical weather forecasting

Electrostatic potential problems; Poisson and Laplace's equation method of images; Green's theorem; multiple expansions; Magnetic fields; Stokes theorem; vector potential; Electromagnetic Maxwell's equation; Propagation of electromagnetic waves in different ionized and non-ionized media; phase velocity; group velocity and pulse propagation; attenuation; refraction; energy propagation and transfer; polarization and dispersion; Green function methods; diffraction theory; simple radiating systems; Lagrangian derivation of Maxwell's equations and the covariant structure of electromagnetism

Introduction and basic concepts: Definitions; Nuclear properties; Nuclear potential and energy levels; Radioactivity and transformation kinematics; Nuclear collisions; Nuclear Instability: alpha decay; beta decay; electron capture (EC); gamma decay and semi classical theory of decay; gamma-decay and yield selection rules; Internal conversion (IC); Auger electron emission; Interaction of Radiation with matter: specific ionization; linear energy transfer (LET); Mechanisms and energy transfer of Heavy changed particles (Bethe-Bloch formula; Bragg curve; energy requirements etc); fast electrons; gamma-rays; neutrons including attenuation and moderation; Nuclear reactions: general features of nuclear reactions; elastic scattering; direct reaction; compound nucleus reaction; Heavy ions reaction; Brief review of concepts and principles of reactors and criticality

Generalization of special relativity; Effects of gravity; curved spacetimes; metrics; particle paths as geodesics; light and null geodesics; Curved spacetimes: Tensors as a general tool in curved spacetime; geodesic equations; curvature and its description; Geodesic deviation; Distributed matter and the stress-energy tensor; Einstein equations in general and in vacuum; Lambda term; Spherically symmetric vacuum solution: Schwarzschild metric; equation of motion in the Schwarzschild metric; Properties of the orbits of particles and photons; Infall into a black hole; Event horizon and infinite redshift surfaces; Weak-field limits: Gravitational lenses; time delays and periastron advance; Binary pulsar; Gravitational collapse; Rotating black holes; The Kerr metric; Its singularities and horizons; properties particles and photon orbits; inertial frame dragging

Constitution of the atmosphere; Formation and structure of D-; E-; and F-layers of the ionosphere; Vertical and oblique propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere; Ionospheric absorption and fading; magneto-ionic theory; Ionospheric disturbances; Special features of the equatorial ionosphere

Constitution of the atmosphere; Formation and structure of D-; E-; and F-layers of the ionosphere; Vertical and Oblique propagation of radio waves in the ionosphere; Ionospheric absorption and fading; magneto-ionic theory; Ionospheric disturbances; Special features of the equatorial ionosphere

The earth's magnetic field; Secular and transient variations; Aurorae; Conjugate point relationships; Winds and movements; Rockets and satellites; Other special techniques