S. Chand's Textbook of Second Year Physics

• The material is presented in a comprehensive way using a simple language.
• The sequence of articles in each chapter enables the students to understand the gradual development of the subject.
• A large number of illustrations, pictures and interesting examples have been given to illustrate the basic principles involved so as to make reading interesting and understandable.
• Solved examples as well as numerical questions frequently asked in different universities are incorporated.
• Exercises with a large number of questions are given at the end of each chapter to facilitate the students to prepare for their examination as per the pattern of setting question papers in all universities of Uttar Pradesh.

SECTION I
PHYSICAL OPTICS AND LASERS
1. INTERFERENCE OF LIGHT
2. HAIDINGER FRINGES
3. FRESNEL DIFFRACTION
4. FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION
5. DIFFRACTION GRATINGS
6. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT
7. LASER SYSTEM
8. APPLICATIONS OF LASERS
SECTION II
ELECTROMAGNETICS
9. ELECTROSTATICS : ELECTRIC FIELD AND POTENTIALS
10. MAGNETOSTATICS -I: FORCE ON A MOVING CHARGE
11. MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO STEADY CURRENTS
12. MAGNETOSTATICS-II : ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
13. DIELECTRICS
14. MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER    
15. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
SECTION III
ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SPECTRA
16. ORIGIN OF QUANTUM THEORY
17. WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY
18. HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
19. SCHRÖDINGER'S EQUATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS
20. ATOMIC SPECTRA-I : ATOMS WITH ONE ELECTRON
21. ATOMIC SPECTRA-II : ATOMS WITH MANY ELECTRONS
22. X-RAYS
23. MOLECULAR SPECTRA:VIBRATIONAL AND ROTATIONAL SPECTRA