Radiative Transfer: The spectrum of Radiation; Quantitative description of Radiation;Blackbody Radiation-The Plank Function-Wiens displacement Law-The Stefan-Boltzmann Law; Radiative properties of Non Black Materials-Kirchoff’s Law, Radiative equilibrium,The Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Window, Albedo; Physics of Scattering and Absorption and Emmision-Scattering by Air molecules and particles-Absorption by particles-Absorption and Emission by Gas molecules; Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmosphere-Beers Law- Reflection and Absorption by a layer of the Atmsophere-Absorpt

Electrical Engineering Lab

o Magnetic measurements  

o Three phase power measurement  

o Verification of theorems  

o Characteristic of electrical machines (AC and DC)  

• Electronics Engineering Lab

Determination of total hardness of water
 The Nernst equation
 Potentiometry
 Conductometry
 Determination of phosphoric acid content in soft drink
 Determination of chloride content in water
 Validation of Ostwald’s dilution law and solubility product
 Kinetics of acid hydrolysis of ester
 Kinetics of sucrose inversion
 Preparation of polymers
 Determination of molecular weight of polymers
 Metallography of steels
 Microhardness of different materials

Introduction to Linux – introduction to programming – basic elements of a program, variables, values, types, assignment – expressions and control flow – iteration and loop design, arrays, for loop, functions, parameters, recursion – object-oriented paradigm, objects, classes, inheritance, reusability, polymorphism, overloading, libraries, containers, classes for file handling, parameter passing and pointers, linking, shell commands, data structures, linked list, stack, queue – applications.

 Principles of Relativity:
Overview of Special Relativity, spacetime interval and Lorentz metric, propertime, action for free particle, relativistic dynamics, four vectors, electrodynamics in 4 dimensional language. Introduction to general relativity (GR), equivalence principle, gravitation as a manifestation of the curvature of spacetime.
Geometrical Framework of General Relativity:

 Examination of popular multispectral sensors’ bandwidths and comparison with spectral signatures of typical surface features, development of hyperspectral remote sensing, AVIRIS,

 
Concept of Signatures;  Remote Sensing systems; Data acquisition from space;  Raw data and the associated errors; Examples of Satellite raw data;  Satellite Data Processing – definition, need;  Data after different stages of processing        (2)
Satellite orbits – Kepler’s Laws of Planetary motion – Orbital elements- Conversion of orbital elements to inertial coordinates and vice versa;Shape of the Earth;  Actual gravitational field of earth; concept of Julian time,  sidereal angle, geodetic coordinates; (3)