Name of the Laboratory
Engineering Physics

To train the students to develop experimental skills for the determination of physical parameters with the basic concepts of physics .

Familiarity with the experimental arrangements to determine the optical , electrical ,thermal and magnetic parameters

Acquaintance with the use and calibration of electrical instruments

Name of the Equipment	Quantity
Spectrometers	22
Travelling Microscopes	20
Sodium vapour lamps	10
Mercury vapour lamps	07
Magnifier –cum torches	37
Stewart & Gee’s apparatus	10
Carey-Foster’s bridge	07
Energy band gap apparatus	05
Lee’s thermal conductivity apparatus	06
Photo cell characteristics	04
Planck’s constant apparatus	05
e/m measurement Thomson’s apparatus	05
Melde’s apparatus	06
Electronic regulated power supplies	22
Electronic standard cells	06
Potentiometers	06

Heat, Electricity and Magnetism Lab

Thermal conductivity of a bad conductor – Lee’s method
Laws of resistance and specific resistance - Carey Foster’s bridge
Calibration of low range voltmeter using potentiometer
Variation of magnetic field along the axis of a current carrying circular coil- Stewart and Gee’s apparatus
Determination of energy band gap of a semiconductor
Determination of Specific charge (e/m) of an electron – Thomson’s method
Melde’s experiment – Determination of the frequency of an electrically maintained tuning fork

Optics Lab

Wedge method – Determination of thickness of paper by forming parallel interference fringes
Newton’s rings – Determination of radius of curvature of convex lens
Determination of Cauchy’s constants using spectrometer and mercury light
Diffraction grating – Determination of wavelength of prominent lines of Mercury spectrum
Determination of Rydberg constant using hydrogen discharge tube
Double refraction – Determination of o and e in quartz crystal
Photoelectric effect: