Friday, June 17, 2011

Research Topics List On Electricity & Magnetism


Research Topics List On Electricity & Magnetism
1. Maxwell’s equations: derivation, physical significance, equations in different system of units and media. Proof of transverse nature of electromagnetic waves and that they travel with speed ‘c’, applications.(A)

2. Cyclotron, Synchrocyclotron, Betatron and other particle accelerators used around the world, advancements in particle accelerator technology, Briefing of Large Hadron Collider(Geneva, Swiss), future prospective and applications. (A)

3. Resistors, condenses, inductors and all possible combinations(e.g. R only, C only, L only, RC, RL, LC , RLC etc), charging and discharging curves, resonance, low pass and high pass RC circuits, phasors, applications. (A)

4. Four types of fundamental forces in nature, their origin, comparison. History of the ultimate goal of Physics: Unification, unification achieved, theory of everything, future prospective. (A)

5. ‘DEL’ operator; its operations on scalar and vector functions, their physical interpretations. Write atleast five to six equation having ‘DEL’ operator from Physics with physical interpretations. Applications of vector calculus of ‘DEL’ operator. (A)

6. Crossed fields; HALL EFFECT, applications. (A)

7. Electrostatic fields in matter (dielectrics). Behavior and response of a dielectric to external electrostatic field and micro and macroscopic levels. (A)

8. AC motor and generator with complete technical analysis and calculations of efficiency, different types pf technological advancements. (A)

9. Hydrogen fuel cell as way out for energy crises, basic technology used and latest advances, applications. (A)

10. Analog electronics: Transistor amplification and different modes of biasing, voltage and current gains, hybrid parameters, concept of load line, applications. (A)

11. Give complete physical picture to evaluate the energy expression for a capacitor, inductor, simple harmonic oscillator, electric and magnetic field energy densities, rotating body, uniformly moving body. Tabulate it and generalize your result.(A)

12. Digital electronics; De-Morgan’s theorem, ALU, flip-flop.(A)

13. International Space Station, contribution of various countries around the world, experiments being performed at ISS and their impact on humanity. (A)

14. Brief description of the experiments related to electricity and magnetism(e.g. Faraday’s experiments, Hertz’s experiments etc) and their impact on our understanding of physical world.(A)

15. Do you ever wonder how pirates sailed the seven seas? The two most important things a pirate could have were a compass and an accurate watch. Ancient navigators did not know about compasses, so how did they know where they were going?(G)

16. As a person from physics background, if you are made the MD of a space tourism company and you are supposed to organize a space visit, how will you do that for ten persons? How would you prepare them for the journey? Where would they be made to stay and how? (G)

17. Recently the big –bang experiment was in news. What is it all about? What are the features of the big-bang theory? Also emphasize on the current status of the experiment? (G)

18. India is, now a days making great progress in the field of communication satellites. What is India’s achievement till date? As a person from technology side, what would you like to add to the current list or amend any of those programmes? (G)

19. If you are sponsored by the Indian government for an invention of your choice (from physics/technology field) but in favour of country’s interests, what would be your choice? How will you design it and give the ways in which it is going to serve the Indian science community? (G)

20. Another heavenly body apart from earth has been detected with liquids at its surface. What are the possibilities of the existence of life there? (G)

21. Lorentz’s transformations, its origin, velocity, momentum and energy transformation, length and time effects, fields due to moving charge.(M)

22. Black holes, formation and other possible ways of dying star e.g. neutron star or supernova, brief about work of Stephen Hawkins. (M)

23. Nuclear reactors, challenges, advancements and present status of world nuclear power generation and future prospective. (M)

24. Experiments supporting wave particle duality. Introduction to the laws of black body radiation and how it leads to failure of classical physics and birth of quantum mechanics. (M)

25. Laplace transformations and their application. (M)

26. Smart materials, types, industrial and daily application. (AL)

27. Amorphous semiconductors, thin film preparations and applications. (AL)

28. Laser, action and Einstein’s theory of lasers, types, applications in industry and medical field. (AL)

29. SOFC, theory and working and its industrial applications. (AL)

30. XRD and its applications and its industrial as well in research. (AL)

31. Construction, working and uses of Scanning Electron Microscope and Tunneling Electron Microscope. Advantages of these microscope over conventional microscopes.(P)

32. Preparation, properties and utilization of thin films. (P)

33. High temperature superconductors, BCS theory for the existence of superconductivity, their applications, properties of yttrium barium copper oxide(YBCO) and bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide(BSCCO). (P)

34. Cosmic rays and elementary particles. Quarks, their types and properties, evidence of existence of quarks, formation of baryons and mesons with quarks. EGS (Electron Gamma Shower). Existence of neutrino and antineutrino. (P)

35. Magnetic storage- history, technical detail, current usage ant future scope. Different magnetic storage device- magnetic tape, zip drive, magnetic disks etc. (P)

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