Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study

Important dates

Start Date : 26 Apr, 2026

Fees Informations	Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
INR 1000	yes	IIIT Guwahati

Reviews of Classical Physics, Lagrangian Formalism, Special Theory of Relativity, Length Contraction, Time Dilation, Lorentz Transformation, Mass Energy Equivalence

Structure of an Atom, Bohr quantization, Angular momentum, Rurtherford Scattering, Correspondence Principle, Spectral lines, Blamer, Lyman, Bracket, Pfund series

Stern Gerlach Experiment, Planck’s Radiation law, Wave-particle duality, de Broglie relation, Photoelectric and Compton Effects, Probabilistic interpretation, Uncertainty Principle, Phase and Group velocities

Postulates of Quantum Mechanics, superposition principle, Dirac’s bra-ket notation, Solution of Schroedinger equation in one-dimensional problems, Particle in a box, Barrier transmission problems, Harmonic Oscillator, Bound states

Solution of Schroedinger equation in 3D. Hydrogen atom, degeneracies, Elementary ideas of Perturbation theory, splitting of energy levels, Stark and Zeeman effects

Time dependent perturbation theory, Einstein’s A, B coefficients, Stimulated Emission and Absorption, Electron spin, spin-orbit coupling, Total Angular Momentum, LS, JJ Coupling, Clebsch-Gordon coefficients

Basics of electromagnetism, Electric and Magnetic Fields, Poynting Vector, Maxwell’s equations, Propagation of electro-magnetic waves in vacuum and medium

Statistical description of matter, Elementary idea about ensembles, Microcanical, Canonical and Grand canonical ensembles, Liouville’s Theorem, Maxwell-Boltzmann (MB), Bose-Einstein (BE) and Fermi-Dirac (FD) distributions,

Applications of Bose Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), properties of free Fermi Gas, Pauli paramagnetism

Solid State Physics, Lattice vibration, Specific heat of solids, Semiconductors, p and n type semiconductors, elementary ideas of Magnetism and Superconductivity

Elementary Nuclear Physics, Binding energy, Shell model, Liquid drop model, Nuclear forces, Radioactivity, half-life, alpha, Beta and gamma decay, Fission and Fusion