Indian Institute of Technology Gandhingar

Proposed M.Sc. Physics (2 year) course structure

Semester – 1

1.1 Cultures of Communication 4 HSS

1.2 Open/PG Elective OR Dept. Elective1.2 3 EL 1
1.3 Classical Mechanics 4 Core 1
1.4 Quantum Mechanics – 1 4 Core 2
1.5 Mathematical Methods in Physics – 1 4 Core 3

Credits 19 19 (After Sem 1)

Semester – 2

2.1 Quantum Mechanics – 2 4 Core 4

2.2 Classical Electrodynamics 4 Core 5
2.3 Statistical Mechanics 4 Core 6
2.4 Methods of Experimental Physics2.4 4 Core 7
2.5 Reading project with institute faculty 4 Research

Credits 20 39 (After Sem 2)

Summer Research Project Encouraged

Credits 39 (After Summer)

Semester – 3

3.1 Condensed Matter Physics 4 Core 8

3.2 Computational methods in Physics 3 Core 9
3.3 Open/PG Elective OR Dept. Elective 3 EL 2
3.4 Open/PG Elective OR Dept. Elective 3 EL 3
3.5 Research Project 8 Research

Credits 21 60 (after Sem 3)

Semester – 4

4.1 Open/PG Elective OR Dept. Elective4.1 4 EL 4

4.2 Open/PG Elective OR Dept. Elective 4 EL 5
4.3 Humanities Elective Course 4 HSS
4.5 Research Project 8 Research

Credits 20 80 (after Sem 4)

1.2 Students may be advised to take ES112 (Python Programming) in this elective slot.
2.4 Physics discipline will develop additional electronics experiments with help from TA's from EE
4.1 Students may be advised to take CH624 (formerly 'Selected topics in Physical Chemistry') proposed by Sudhanshu
Sharma. This is a course on various forms of spectroscopy with a substantial hands-on component.

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Break-up of various components
S. No. Type of course Number of Total credits Minimum requirement in
courses / allocated M.Sc. guidelines
equivalent
1. Core Courses 9 35 34

2. Open/Dept./PG electives 5 17 12

3. Research project - 20 20

4. HSS Electives (incl. Cultures 2 8 8

of Communication course)
TOTAL 80 80

Bouquet of courses for Dept. electives or PG electives (more to be added)

Thin Film processing and characterization

Foundations of Fluid Dynamics
Optical Communications
General Relativity and Cosmology
Adv, Mathematical methods in Physics
Astrophysics and Cosmology through observations
Geometry and symmetry in nature
Artifical Intelligence
Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Networks
Instrumentation
Optimization techniques
Functional Analysis
Applied biological engineering
Digital signal processing

Alogithms on Advanced Computer Architechtures

Networks and Complex Systems
Topology
Measure Theory
Introduction to Molecular Modeling
Interpretative organic spectroscopy
Gravitational Wave astronomy
Physics of elemetary particles
Non-linear dynamics

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Indian history through cinema
Democracy and mass mobilization in India
Introduction to demography
Classical Indian Literature in Translation
Music Traditions of India

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