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CONTENTS

FOREWORD v
RATIONALISATION OF CONTENT IN THE TEXTBOOK vii
PREFACE ix

CHAPTER NINE
RAY OPTICS AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS
9.1 Introduction 221
9.2 Reflection of Light by Spherical Mirrors 222
9.3 Refraction 228
9.4 Total Internal Reflection 229
9.5 Refraction at Spherical Surfaces and by Lenses 232
9.6 Refraction through a Prism 239
9.7 Optical Instruments 240

CHAPTER TEN
WAVE OPTICS
10.1 Introduction 255
10.2 Huygens Principle 257
10.3 Refraction and Reflection of Plane Waves using Huygens Principle 258
10.4 Coherent and Incoherent Addition of Waves 262
10.5 Interference of Light Waves and Young’s Experiment 265
10.6 Diffraction 266
10.7 Polarisation 269

CHAPTER ELEVEN
DUAL NATURE OF RADIATION AND MATTER
11.1 Introduction 274
11.2 Electron Emission 275

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11.3 Photoelectric Effect 276
11.4 Experimental Study of Photoelectric Effect 277
11.5 Photoelectric Effect and Wave Theory of Light 280
11.6 Einstein’s Photoelectric Equation: Energy Quantum of Radiation 281
11.7 Particle Nature of Light: The Photon 283
11.8 Wave Nature of Matter 284

CHAPTER TWELVE
ATOMS
12.1 Introduction 290
12.2 Alpha-particle Scattering and Rutherford’s Nuclear Model of Atom 291
12.3 Atomic Spectra 296
12.4 Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom 297
12.5 The Line Spectra of the Hydrogen Atom 300
12.6 DE Broglie’s Explanation of Bohr’s Second Postulate of Quantisation 301

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
NUCLEI
13.1 Introduction 306
13.2 Atomic Masses and Composition of Nucleus 306
13.3 Size of the Nucleus 309
13.4 Mass-Energy and Nuclear Binding Energy 310
13.5 Nuclear Force 313
13.6 Radioactivity 314
13.7 Nuclear Energy 314

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRONICS: MATERIALS, DEVICES AND SIMPLE CIRCUITS
14.1 Introduction 323
14.2 Classification of Metals, Conductors and Semiconductors 324
14.3 Intrinsic Semiconductor 327
14.4 Extrinsic Semiconductor 329

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14.5 p-n Junction 333
14.6 Semiconductor Diode 334
14.7 Application of Junction Diode as a Rectifier 338

APPENDICES 344

ANSWERS 346

BIBLIOGRAPHY 353

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