UNIT I

1. Define elasticity and plasticity.

2. Define stress and strain and write down their units.
3. What are the different types of stress and strain?
4. Define elastic fatigue.
5. State Hookes law.
6. What do you infer from stress and strain diagram?
7. List the three modulii of elasticity.
8. What force is required to stretch a steel wire to double its length when its area of cross
section is 2 cm2 and youngs modulus is 2 x 1011 N/m2.
9. What is Poisons ratio?
10. How do temperature and impurity affect the elasticity of materials?
11. Define torque.
12. A wire of length 1 m and diameter 1 mm is clamped at one of its ends. Calculate the
couple required to twist the other end by 90. Given modulus of rigidity = 298 GPa.
13. Define torsional stress.
14. What is a beam?
15. How are the various filaments of a beam affected when the beam is loaded?
16. Define cantilever.
17. When a wire is bent back and forth it becomes hot? Why?
18. Calculate the youngs modulus of the material in the cantilever depression method.
The length of cantilever beam is 1m which is suspended with a load of 150 gm. The
depression is found to be 4 cm. The thickness of the beam is 5 mm and breadth is 3 cm.
19. An elastic wire is cut into half of its original length. How will it affect the maximum
load the wire can support?
20. What are the advantages of I- shaped girders?

UNIT II
1. Define the terms i) Time period ii) Frequency.
2. What is meant by damped vibrations? Give examples.
3. What do you understand by the term Dead Beat? Give Examples.
4. Differentiate between free and forced vibrations.
5. A particle is executing SHM of amplitude 0.2 cm. If its velocity at the mean position
is 5 m/s, then find its frequency.
6. Define plane progressive wave.
7. State the properties of laser beam.
8. Spatial and temporal coherence are major attributes of a lasing beam. Comment.
9. Write the difference between spontaneous emission and stimulated emission.
10. What is meant by population inversion and metastable state?
11. Can a two level system be used for the production of laser? Why?
12. What is an optical resonator cavity? Mention its role in a laser?
13. Calculate the wavelength of light emission from GaAs whose band gap is 1.44 eV.
14. List out the conditions to be satisfied for total internal reflection.
15. What do you mean by the acceptance angle for an optical fibre? Show that it is related
to the numerical aperture.
16. Differentiate between single mode and multi mode fibre.
17. A silica optical fibre has a core refractive index of 1.51 and a cladding refractive
index of 1.48. Determine the critical angle at the core cladding interface.
18. The maximum angle of acceptance for an optical fibre is 11.54 . Find the refractive
index of cladding if the core refractive index is 1.60.
19. Distinguish between step- index and graded index fibres.
20. What is an active and passive fibre optic sensor?

UNIT III
1. What are the modes of heat transferred from one place to another?
2. Mention the types of thermal expansion of solids.
3. Define coefficient of linear expansion of solids.
4. Define coefficient of superficial expansion.
5. Define coefficient of cubical expansion.
6. Explain the term co-efficient of apparent and real expansion of liquid.
7. A circular hole of diameter 2.00 cm is made in an aluminium plate at 0 0C. What will
be the diameter at 100 0C? Linear expansion for aluminium = 2.3 x 10-3 / 0C
8. What is thermal conduction?
9. Define coefficient of thermal conductivity and mention its unit.
10. How are heat conduction and electrical conduction analogous to each other?
11. Define thermal resistance.
12. What is bimetallic strip? Give its use.
13. What is meant by thermal insulation?
14. The roof building is often painted white during summer. Why?
15. What are the factors to be considered in order to maintain a comfortable inside the
building?
16. How much heat will be conducted through a slab of area 90x10-4 m2 and thickness
1.2x10-3 m in one second when its opposite faces are maintained at difference in temperature
of 20 K. The coefficient of thermal conductivity of that material is 0.04 Wm-1K-1
17. Mention the properties of the thermal insulating materials.
18. What is meant by solar power?
19. Explain the principle of refrigeration.
20. Define oven.

UNIT IV
1. What is meant by energy spectrum of a black body? What do you infer from it?
2. What are the postulates of Plancks quantum theory?
3. Define Wiens displacement law.
4. State Rayleigh - Jeans law. What are its limitations?
5. What is Compton wavelength? Give its value.
6. State the expression for Compton shift. Why it is not observable in the visible region
of electromagnetic spectrum?
7. X -ray photon of wave length 0.3 is scattered through an angle 45 by a loosely
bound electron. Find the wave length of the scattered photon.
8. Write any two physical significance of wave function.
9. How are matter-waves different from electromagnetic waves?
10. What is wave particle duality?
11. Write down the expression for the wavelength of matter waves.
12. List the applications of Schrodinger wave equation.
13. A proton is moving with a speed of 2 x 108 m/s. Find the wavelength of the matter
wave associated with it.
14. A cylinder filled with helium and heated up to 27 0C. If a beam of helium atoms
emerges out of the cylinder, then calculate the de-Broglie wavelength associated with the
helium atoms. Given that mass of one helium atom is 6.7 x 10-27 kg and k = 1.38x10-23 J/K.
15. For a free particle moving within a one dimensional potential box, the ground state
energy cannot be zero. Why?
16. Calculate the energy required for an electron to jump from ground state to second
excited state in a potential well of width L.
17. What are Eigen values and Eigen function?
18. What is the principle of scanning tunnelling microscope?
19. Mention the major applications of quantum tunnelling.
20. List out the limitations of scanning tunnelling microscope.
UNIT V
1. What are single crystalline materials?
2. Distinguish between crystalline and non-crystalline materials.
3. What is meant by primitive and non-primitive cell? Give an example.
4. Define unit cell.
5. Based on the criteria find out the crystal structure for the following.
(i) a = b = c = 4.74 and = = = 60
(ii) a = b = c = 4.74 and = = = 90
6. What are Bravais lattice?
7. What are lattice parameters for a unit cell?
8. Define space lattice. How it is useful to describe a crystal structure?
9. Draw the planes for Miller Indices (100), (110) and (111).
10. A crystal plane cut at 3a, 4b and 2c distances along the crystallographic
axes. Find the Miller Indices of the plane.
11. Distinguish between inter planar spacing and inter atomic spacing.
12. Iron has BCC structure with atomic radius 0.123. Find the lattice constant.
13. How carbon atoms are arranged in diamond structure?
14. Defects in crystals are not always harmful. Justify.
15. What is meant by crystal defect?
16. What are Schottky defects?
17. Define Burger vector.
18. What is the cause of plastic deformation?
19. Write any two applications of Czochralski and Bridgmann techniques.
20. What are Bravais lattice?