54 REFRESHER COURSE IN EXPERIMENTAL PHYSIC2

December 9 to 24, 2013

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IISER, PUNE

Sponsored by

INDIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, BANGALORE

INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY, DELHI

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, INDIA, ALLAHABAD

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IISER, PUNE

TIME TABLE

REGISTRATION: 9 December ’13 9-30 to 10-00 Hrs:

(L denotes lecture number).

9-30 to 10-00 to 11-45 to 14-00 to 15-15 to 16-15 to

Day and date 10-00 Hrs 11-00 Hrs 12-45 Hrs 15-00 Hrs 16-15 Hrs 17-15 Hrs

Monday Registra- Inauguration Sadique EK D’Sa Sadique

9 December ’13 tion (L9) (L1) (L5) (L10)

9-30 to 10-45 to 11-45 to 14-00 to 15-15 to 16-15 to

10-30 Hrs 11-45 Hrs 12-45 Hrs 15-00 Hrs 16-15 Hrs 17-15 Hrs

Tuesday EK D’Sa Sadique MN EK D’Sa

10 December ’13 (L2) (L6) (L11) (L13) (L3) (L7)

Wednesday Sadique EK D’Sa MN TGR RS

11 December ’13 (L12) (L4) (L8) (L14) (L17) (L22)

Thursday TGR MN RS TGR MN TGR

12 December ‘13 (L18) (L15) (L23) (L19) (L16) (20)

Friday RS LABORATORY LABORATORY

13 December ’13 (L24)

Saturday TGR LABORATORY LABORATORY

14 December ‘13 (L21)

Sunday

15 December ‘13 HOLIDAY

Monday RS LABORATORY LABORATORY

16 December’13 (L25)

Day & Date 9-30 to 10-30 to 12-45 Hrs 14 to 17-15 Hrs

10-30 Hrs

Tuesday RS LABORATORY LABORATORY

17 December ’13 (L26)

Wednesday SPL1 LABORATORY LABORATORY

18 December ‘13

Thursday Discussion LABORATORY LABORATORY

19 December’13

Friday SPL2 LABORATORY LABORATORY

20 Decemberl’13

Saturday SPL3 LABORATORY LABORATORY

21 December’13

Sunday

22 December ‘13 HOLIDAY

Monday Discussion LABORATORY LABORATORY

23 December‘13

Tuesday Discussion Valedictory

24 December ‘13

LUNCH 13-14 HRS COFFEE/TEA BREAK 10-30 TO 10-45 HRS

15-00 TO 15-15 HRS


LECTURES

Dr. Elankumaran Kannan (EK)

1.  Constant current source and DC Differential Amplifier

2.  Stefan’s constant and High Resistance by leakage

3.  Thermal and electrical conductivity of Copper and thermal conductivity of a

Poor Conductor.

4.  Determination of k/e using a transistor.

Dr. DeSa (DeSa)

5.  Young’s Modulus of a bar by Flexural vibrations

6.  Rigidity Modulus of a brass wire

7.  TCR of Copper and Bandgap of silicon

8.  Calibration of a silicon diode and Copper constantan thermocouple against Pt

Resistance thermometer

Prof. Sadique (Sadique)

9.  Signal generator and power amplifier

10.  AC Experiments

11.  Passive Filters

12.  AC Bridges

Dr. Manohar Nyayate (MN)

13.  Capacitance meter – Dielectric constant of benzene and dipole moment of

acetone

14.  Verification of Curie Weiss Law for a ceramic capacitor

15.  Thermal relaxation of a serial light bulb.

16.  B-H Curve

Dr. T.G. Ramesh (TGR)

17.  Thermoelectric effects

18.  Neutral of temperature of Fe-Cu thermocouple

19.  Phase Transitions 1

20.  Phase Transitions 2

21.  Tracing phase transition in shape memory alloy by resistance

PROF. R. Srinivasan (RS)

22.  Thermal diffusivity of brass

23.  Phase sensitive detection and calibration of a lock in amplifier

24.  Measurement of mutual inductance and low resistance with a lock in amplifier.

25.  Non-linear dynamics – Feigenbaum circuit

26.  Non-linear dynamics – Chua circuit

*SPL are special lectures to be delivered by specialists.

i)  SPL 1: Prof. Ogale

ii)  SPL 2 : Arvind Gupta

iii)  SPL 3: Prof. Dharamadhikari