Electromagnetic waves, retarded potentials and radiation. Simple radiating systems, scattering and diffraction. Mathematical tools developed as required. 01 Experimental Physics Students perform six experiments in modern physics. Topics include electron diffraction, beta-decay, optical pumping, the Mossbauer effect, and the Josephson effect.
Lectures stress experimental methods, statistics, and the fundamental limits of measurements.
This course introduces basic nuclear and particle physics and their overlap in the context of current research. The main focus will be on strong and weak interactions, symmetries, quarks, and neutrinos. Integrability vs. chaos. Motion on group manifolds and fluid mechanics. Solitons, shock waves, turbulence, strange attractors, and period doubling.