PYE 326 covers 27 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study
sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked
answers for each one.
Refractive index, total internal reflection and fibre optics
Dispersion by prisms and prism spectrometer
Light intensity, absorption and Fermat’s principle
Interference and superposition of light waves
Young’s double slit and phasor addition
Thin films, Newton’s rings and Fresnel biprism
Michelson interferometer
Diffraction, diffraction grating and resolving power
Schrödinger equation and quantum postulates
Wave function properties and interpretation
Normalization, linearity and superposition
Operators, eigenvalues and eigenfunctions
Expectation values and commutators
Time-independent Schrödinger equation
Stationary states and Hamiltonian operator
Wave packets and Fourier transforms
Uncertainty principle
Particle in a box
Potential barrier tunneling and finite wells
Hydrogen atom
Electron spin and exclusion principle
A sample from this course
One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.
Wave nature of light and wave theory
The wave nature of light explains phenomena such as interference, diffraction, reflection, and refraction. Mastering these concepts is essential for solving problems on light behaviour in optical devices, a core part of the engineering physics syllabus.
What you get for PYE 326
Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.