UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR

M.Sc. PHYSICS (COSIST)

ACADEMIC PROGRAM
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS
PAPERS
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
M.Sc. (Physics) course will be of two years duration distributed over four semesters. In each semester there will be four theory papers. The total number of papers including compulsory plus optional, subject will be 16. Each paper will be given four hours for teachign plus one hour for tototials per week. In additon to other there willbe partcticals with or without a project. The work lead for practicals will be 18 hours per week. The scheme of examination and the course is out lined in part (a) and (b).
EXAMINATION
There will be internal and external examination inall theory papers in every semester. The weightage for each theory paper will be as under :
Theory
(i) Internal Examination Mid term test (A)
( 2 hour duration in each semester)		 Weightage
25%		 Time
After 30 working days
(ii) Home assignment/Tutorials, etc. in each semester (Internal) 15% Spread over Entire course
(iii) External Examination (B)
3 hrs duration at the end of each semester.		 60% All the end
(A) The internal examiantion will be conducted by a board of examiners with atleast 2 members.
(B) Five questions will be asked, out of these one question will be short answer type covering entire course and ill be compulsory, other four questions will have 100% internal choice.
Minimum pass marks in each paper is : 36%
and the aggreagtte should be : 48 %
Maximum marks for each theory paper : 50
(Internal/external).
Practicals/Projects :
The practical examination at the end of each semester will be conducted by a board consistign of at least three examiners. At the end of I and III semester, the three internal members (teachers of the department) will form the board and for II and IV semester, one external examiner will be also included alogwith two internal members. The mide term test and day-to-day assessment will be done by the internal examiners appointed by the Head of the Deptt.
DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

I and II semester III and IV semester
I Mid term test (Internal 30 % I Mid term test (Internal) 30%
Day to day work, Seminar etc. (Internal) 10% Day to day work, Seminar etc. (Internal) 10%
Terminal Examination* (Internal after I semester ) 60% Terminal Examination* (Internal after III semester) 60%
and external after II semester as indicated above after IV semester as indicated above

Maximum marks for each semester practicals is 100.
*(Viva-voce 20% . Expt. 40%,, Internal Test 30%, Day to Day 10%)
A student if permitted by the Head of the Department, can opt for a project work in lieu of half the experimental work of III and IV semester. His/her practical work including project will be assessed only at the IV semester examiantion. Project work will be alloted after second semester and will cary 100 marks.
Rules regarding determination of Results and working out Divison of Successful Candidates.
  1. Each semester will be regarded as a unit for workign out the result of the candidates. The result of each semester examination will be worked out separately (even if he as appeared at the paper of the lower semester along with the papers of higher semester) in accordance with the following conditions.
    1. He must have passed in theory part of as well as in the practical part (wherever prescribed of a subject/paper separately).
    2. He must have secured at least 36% marsk in External and itnernal assemssment separately of each individual paper prescribed for the semester examination.
    3. He must have secured at least 36% marks in the Practicals/Project work if prescribed at the semester examination and
    4. He must have secured at least 48% marks in the aggregate of all the theory papers and practicla project work prescribed for the semester examination.
  1. A candidate who does not fulfill either fo the aforesaid conditons shall be declared as fialed at the semester examination.
  2. A candidate failing of absenting in one or more theory paper (s) as also in practicals at a semester examination will be permitted to join the courses of the courses of stdy for the next higher semester provided that for promotion to be courses of study for the Third Semester, he must have cleared at least 60% of the papers (including practicals and conducting practicals as one paper) prescribed for the first and the second semester examinatin taken together. Where the number of paper (including practicals) prescribed for the First and the Second Semester examination taken together is an odd number. It will be required to offer paper(s) not cleared by him at any of the lower semester examinatino (a).
  3. A candidate for a semester examination will offer all the papers prescribed for that semester examination and in addition he will be required to offer paper (s) not cleared by him at any of the semester exmination (s).
  4. A student who has been promoted to the next semester wishes to improve his performance can be permitted to do so in case of the papers belonging to the immdediately preceding semester. In such a case he will have to appear in these papers along with the papers of his own semester.
  5. The division of the candidate will be worked out as follows :
    48% marks or more but less than 60% : Second Division
    60% marks or more : First Division
Note : If a candidate fails in internal assessment, will be declared failed in that/those paper (s) along with the papers of higher semeste. In such a case a case the marks obtained by him out of 30 will be raised so as to marks them out lof 50 marks for wlring out the result. Similar a candidate who fails in internal assessment in practicals and will be reqired to re-appear in practicals and marks obtained by him out 60 will be reaised as to make them out of 100. For M.Sc. Physics - For promotion to the fourth semester, a candidate must pass firss and second semester examination completely.

Max. Marks : (For regular student) Duration of Exam.
Semester-I
Paper-I : Clasical Mechanics 30 3 Hrs
Paper-II : Mathematical methods in Physics 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-III : Quantum Mechanics 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-IV electronics 30 3 Hrs.
Semester-II
Paper-V : Classical Electrodynamics-I 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-VI : Numerical methods and Computer Programming 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-VII : Atomic and Molecular Physics 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-VIII : Statistical and Solid State Physics 30 3 Hrs.
Semester-III
Paper-IX classical Electrodynamics-II 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-X : Advanced Quantum Mechanics 30 3Hrs.
Paper-XI : Nuclear Physics-I 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-XII : Special Paper-I 30 3 Hrs.
Semester-IV
Paper-XIII : Solid State Physics 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-XIV Nuclear Physics II 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-XV Introductory Quantum Field Theory 30 3 Hrs.
Paper-XVI : Special Paper-II 30 3 Hrs.

The following will be the special papers available each having two papers :
  1. Condensed Matter Phsyics.
  2. Plasma Physics.
  3. High Energy Physics.
  4. Microwave Electronics
  5. Science and Technology of Solar hydrogen and other renewable energies.
  6. Informatics.
General Notes :
  1. Internal Assessment (Home Asset. Test) will carry 20 marks for each papers for regular students.
  2. For ex-students the marks secured would be assessed by S/8 cererecorseopr to make std.
  3. Each paper is divided into four units. In all five questions will be set. Four questions will be out of the four units taking one question from each unit with 100% internal choice. One question will be of short answer type coverign entire course. The candiidate will be required to attempt all the questions.
  4. A student will bre permitted to opt only for one of the aforesaid topics for the two special papers enlised in semester III and IV.
  5. The topic for the two special paper-I II offered in Semester-III and IV will be same.
Laboratory (Practical Work) :
The laboratory work will involve performance of experiments by the students. Each student will be required to perform atleast 8 experiments per semeste. In the II Semester the student will have a freedom to offer an experimental project in lieu of half the experiments of III an dIV semester. For each semester 40 mark (40%) will be for internal assessment and 60 marks for the semester examination making the total to 100 for each semester.
The following topics will be covered in the laboratory work :
    Semester I and II:
  1. General Physics
  2. Electronics
  3. Spectroscopy
  4. Computer Programming
    5. Semester III and IV :
  5. Nuclear Physics
  6. Microwave Electronics.
  7. Solid State Physics.
  8. Advanced Physics Experiments.
Note : Details of paper wise syllabus and the experimetns available are given in the following pages.