BSc 180 Core Elective, 4. - 6. Semester
Table of contents
Physics of soft matter (PHY212)
- Forming condensed matter from atoms
- Diffusion and atomic interactions
- Methods for directly observing and measuring interactions between atoms
- Foundations in polymer physics
- DNA as a bio-polymer
- Instruments in molecular biology
- Methods for measuring the properties of individual DNA molecules
- Rheology, elasticity
- Pattern formation and non-linear dynamics
- Optics and microscopy
Nuclear and Particle Physics II (PHY213)
- Electroweak unification
- Parity violation in weak interactions, beta decay of neutrons
- CP violation
- Eichinvarianz and the Higgs Boson
- The standard model: Weinberg-Salam Theory
- Experimental methods: accelerators, interactions of radiation with matter, detectors
- Neutrino mass and mixtures, solar and atmospheric neutrinos
- Thermic history of the universe, primordial nucleosynthesis
- Element synthesis in stars
Lab Course Particle Physics II (PHY 223)
Experiment at PSI with data analysis and error calculus
Introduction to Astrophysics (PHY241)
- Gravitational constant
- Celestial mechanics and chaos
- Schwarzschild space-time and black holes
- Chandrasekhar mass scales
- Nuclear fusion in stars
- Main sequence of stars
- Friedmann equation and the expanding universe
- Cosmic microwave background
Quantum Mechanics II (PHY351)
- Scattering theory
- Time-dependent perturbation theory
- Interactions between light and matter
- Many-body-problem and identical particles
- Atom and molecule construction
- Quantum mechanics many-body-systems
- Quantum statistics
- Bose-Einstein-Condensation
Continuum mechanics (PHY352)
- Deformation and stress tensor
- Grating violations and plastic deformation
- Navier-Stokes-Equation
- Dynamics of vortexes
- Reynold number
- Prandt boundary layer
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Couette flow and Taylor instability
Development of turbulence
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