UNIT VII: DUAL NATURE OF RADIATION AND MATTER
- Hertz and Lenard’s observations
UNIT IX: SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTROCNICS
- Characteristics of transistor
- transistor as an amplifier (CE configuration)
- basic idea of analog and digital signals
- Logic gates (OR. AND. NOT. NAND and NOR)
UNIT X: COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
- Elements of a communication system (block diagram only)
- bandwidth of signals (speech, TV and digital data)
- bandwidth of transmission medium
- propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere
- sky and space wave propagation
- qualitative idea about amplitude modulation and frequency modulation
- advantages of frequency modulation over amplitude modulation
- basic idea about internet
- mobile telephony and global positioning system (GPS)