Programme Specific Outcomes

The essential objective of the Choice-Based-Credit-System in Physics at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) is to cultivate knowledge about the fundamental laws and phenomena as well as that occur in various branches in Physics and to generate awareness about their deep interconnections and mathematical harmony. In the different semesters, the students are introduced to various subject areas – Mathematical Methods, Mechanics, Thermal Physics, Electricity & Magnetism, Waves & Optics, Electronics etc.to the more advanced areas like Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Physics, Solid State Physics - to name a few. The students have the privilege to choose skill-based and discipline-specific elective subjects from a pool of subjects offered to them.

Beginning with a brief introduction to each course, the students are exposed to the fundamental concepts and the related laws. This helps them to apply these theories in solving numerical and analyse real problems in Physics. The courses equip the students to learn laboratory skills, enabling them to perform experiments in the laboratory and, in some courses, also acquire computational skills along with numerical simulation. In the laboratory-based courses, students study the experimental set-up, record and process data, analyse the result with relevant outcomes. The dissertation in the final semester is a project, theoretical, experimental or computational that enables the student learn and understand a new area, often not included in the undergraduate course. This gives them the opportunity to explore, study and understand advanced and challenging problems in Physics. The courses aim at broadening the horizon of the students and encourages them to take up the subject at an advanced level, in future.