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~~1200 Physics<br />
10 credit points per semester<br />
No. <strong>of</strong> hours per week: five hours for two<br />
semesters<br />
Assessment: practical work, assignments and<br />
examination<br />
Subject description<br />
Motion and forces: relativistic kinematics and dynamics,<br />
rotational kinematics and dynamics, gravitation.<br />
Electricity and magnetism: electric fields, DC circuits,<br />
magnetic fields, electromagnetism, AC circuits.<br />
Atomic physics: photoelectric effect, x-rays, Compton effect,<br />
photon-electron interactions, Bohr model, de Broglie matter<br />
waves.<br />
Nuclear physics: binding energy, nuclear forces, radioactivity,<br />
alpha, beta, gamma decay, nuclear reactions, radiation<br />
detectors.<br />
Vibrations, waves and sound.<br />
Optics: optical instruments, interference and diffraction,<br />
polarization, optical communication.<br />
Thermal physics: temperature and heat, gas laws and<br />
thermodynamics.<br />
~~1209 Physics<br />
10 credit points per semester<br />
No. <strong>of</strong> hours per week: five hours for two<br />
semesters<br />
Assessment: practical work, assignments and<br />
examination<br />
Subject description<br />
Motion and forces: relativistic kinematics and dynamics,<br />
rotational kinematics and dynamics, gravitation.<br />
Electricity and magnetism: electric fieids, DC circuits,<br />
maqnetic fields, electromagnetism, AC circuits.<br />
Atomic physics: photoelectric effect, x-rays, Compton effect,<br />
photon-electron interactions, Bohr model, de Broglie matter<br />
waves.<br />
Nuclear physics: binding energy, nuclear forces, radioactivity,<br />
alpha, beta, gamma decay, nuclear reactions, radiation<br />
detectors.<br />
Vibrations, waves and sound.<br />
Optics: optical instruments, interference and diffraction,<br />
polarization, optical communication.<br />
Thermal physics: temperature and heat, gas laws and<br />
thermodynamics.<br />
SPI 21 o<br />
Introduction to Scientific<br />
Instrumentation<br />
10 credit points per semester<br />
No. <strong>of</strong> hours per week: four hours<br />
Instruction: lectures, laboratory work and<br />
tutorials<br />
Assessment: examination, workshop reports and<br />
laboratory computer testing<br />
Subject description<br />
An introduction to fundamentals <strong>of</strong> digital logic and<br />
applications. Advanced digital circuits. Basic analog electronic<br />
concepts, basic concepts <strong>of</strong> instrumentation and transducers.<br />
AC concepts and circuits, Power supplies. Case studies in<br />
digital and analog electronics.<br />
Textbooks<br />
Ismail, Rooney and Victor, M. Digital Concepts and Applications,<br />
Philadelphia, P.A., Saunders College Publishing, 1990.<br />
Hazen, Mark E. Fundamentals <strong>of</strong> DC and AC circuits, Philadelphia,<br />
FA., Saunders College Publishing, 1990<br />
spi 22s<br />
Introductory Biophysics<br />
5 credit points per semester<br />
No. <strong>of</strong> hours per week: two hours for two<br />
semesters<br />
Assessment: examination, assignments and<br />
laboratory reports<br />
Subject description<br />
Application <strong>of</strong> physics to clinical problems.<br />
Biomechanics: anatomy <strong>of</strong> bones, joints, spinal cord,<br />
kinesiological measurement.<br />
Control systems: homeostasis, feedback in biological systems,<br />
specific application to the endocrine and reproductive<br />
systems.<br />
Bioenergetics: metabolic measurement, food and physical<br />
activity, gastro-intestinal function.<br />
~~3400 Physics 2<br />
10 credit points per semester<br />
No. <strong>of</strong> hours per week: four hours for two<br />
semesters<br />
Assessment: examination<br />
Subject description<br />
Structure and properties <strong>of</strong> matter.<br />
Classical mechanics: Newton's Laws, the two body problem,<br />
orbital mechanics, vibrations, normal modes, resonance, rigid<br />
body dynamics, angular momentum, inertial tensor, Euler's<br />
equations, Lagrangian formulation <strong>of</strong> classical mechanics,<br />
introduction to statistical mechanics.<br />
Quantum mechanics: statistical interpretation, Schroedinger's<br />
equation - basic solutions, operators, eigenfunctions and<br />
eigenvalues. Uncertainty principle, radiation selection rules,<br />
many body quantum mechanics, Pauli exclusion principle,<br />
lasers and holography.<br />
Nuclear physics: nuclear models - liquid drop model, Fermi<br />
gas model, shell model, collective model. Nuclear decay and<br />
nuclear reactions.<br />
Electromagnetism: Maxwell's equations: continuity equation,<br />
scalar and vector potentials, macroscopic fields, polarisation,<br />
magnetisation, constitutive relations. Maxwell's equations in<br />
'macroscopic form': dielectrics, conductors, boundary<br />
conditions, electromagnetic waves in conducting and nonconducting<br />
media, reflection and transmission, cavities and<br />
waveguides, sources <strong>of</strong> radiation.<br />
Optics: wave theory <strong>of</strong> light, scalar wave approximation,<br />
Kirch<strong>of</strong>f diffraction integral. Fresnel and Fraunh<strong>of</strong>fer<br />
diffraction patterns. Absorption, scattering and dispersion <strong>of</strong><br />
light. Electromagnetic waves. Selected topics from modern<br />
optics.<br />
Solid state physics: Sommerfield theory <strong>of</strong> electronic<br />
behaviour in crystals. Kronig-Penny model, band theory, PN<br />
junctions.