Undergraduate Programmes

Level 1      Level 2       Level 3      Level 4     SCC/CSD
Time Table for 2002/03 Sem 1
UnderGraduate

 

 

 

Graduate
Course Materials/Webpages

Minors

 

 

*Cross-Faculty Module 

Code Title MC Sem I Sem II Prerequisite Overlaps/ Remarks
PC4100 Honours Project in Physics 12 X X PC3193 or PC3194 & Dept Approval   
PC4130 Quantum Mechanics 3 4 X   PC3130  PC4201 (old code)
PC4240 Solid State Physics  2 4   X PC2133 or PC3235  PC4214 (old code) 
PC4241 Statistical Mechanics  4 X   PC2230  PC4215 (old code)
PC4242 Electrodynamics 4 X   PC3231 PC4221 (old code) 
PC4243 Atomic and Molecular Physics 2 4   X PC3233 PC4211 (old code)
PC4244 Nuclear Physics 4 X   PC3232 PC4212 (old code)
PC4245 Particle Physics 4   X PC3232 PC4213 (old code) 
PC4248 Relativity  4   X PC3234  
PC4249 Astrophysics  4 X   PC3231 PC4226 (old code)
PC4250 Advanced Analytical Techniques  4 X   PC3193 or PC3194  
PC4253 Thin Film Technology  4 X   PC3235 or PC3241 or PC3242 ML5201
PC4259 Surface Physics 4 X   PC3130 or PC3242 or EE2004 PC4223 (old code)
PC4262 Remote Sensing 4   X PC3231 PC4231 (old code)
PC4264 Advanced Solid State Devices 4   X PC3241 PC4251 (old code)
PC4265 Techniques for Computerized Experiments 4   X PC3193 or PC3194 or PC3245 or EE2005 or equivalent  

 

Brief Description of Modules 

PC4100 Honours project 
(Essential, 12MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3193 or PC3194 and Departmental Approval
Students will undertake a project supervised by a Department staff member and will be expected to present the findings in the form of a thesis and a seminar. 



PC4130 Quantum Mechanics 3 
(Essential, 4MC) 

Prerequisite:  PC3130 
Overlap: PC4201 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Rotation group and angular momentum, spin ½ system and finite rotation. Addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordon coefficients, Wigner-Eckart theorem, irreducible tensor operators.  Identical particles, permutation symmetry, spin and statistics. Time dependent perturbation theory. The integral equation of potential scattering. The Born approximation. The method of partial waves. 

Click here to visit the course materials/ website.

 


PC4240 Solid State Physics 2 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC2133 or PC3235 
Overlap: PC4214 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Electronic energy band calculations, election dynamics, Fermi surfaces; Boltzmann transport equation, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, general transport coefficients, thermal-electric effects, Hall effect; optical properties of metals, semiconductors and insulators, dispersion and absorption, polarizability; susceptibility calculations, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, antiferromagnetism, magnons, magnetization process. 



PC4241 Statistical Mechanics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC2230 
Overlap: PC4215 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Basic postulates of classical and quantum statistical mechanics, microcanonical ensemble, canonical ensemble and grand canonical ensemble. Applications to electron systems, black-body radiation, Bose-Einstein condensation, phase transitions. 



PC4242 Electrodynamics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3231 
Overlap: PC4221 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

RELATIVISTIC FORMULATION OF THE EM FIELD: Four-vectors and tensors, four-vector potential, field strength tensor, energy-momentum vector, covariance of electrodynamics. 

RADIATION BY A POINT CHARGE: Retarded potential, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, radiation reaction and the Abraham-Lorentz formula, Larmor’s formula for radiated power and its relativistic generation, angular distribution pattern, Cherenkov radiation in a dielectric medium, Bremsstrahlung. 

SIMPLE RADIATING SYSTEMS: Multipole expansion of the em fields, energy and angular momentum of multipole radiation, angular distribution, multipole radiation sources and linear antenna. 

SCATTERING AND DIFFRACTION: Kirchoff’s integral, diffraction by a small aperture, Thomson and Rayleigh scattering, scattering by a conducting sphere. 



PC4243 Atomic and Molecular Physics 2 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3233 
Overlap: PC4211 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Molecular vibrational and rotational motions and their interactions, electronic structures, electronic and nuclear spins, angular momentum coupling, transitions and Franck Condon’s principle, atomic and molecular collision theory, two-body systems, single and bulk elastic collision phenomena, selected topics in inelastic collisions 



PC4244 Nuclear Physics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3232 
Overlap: PC4212 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Rutherford scattering, elastic and inelastic scattering. The shell model, many particle shell model. Nuclear spin, nuclear moments. Nuclear reactions. Mossbauer effect. Stellar nucleosynthesis: nuclear fission & nuclear fusion. 

Nuclear analytical techniques: Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, particle induced X-ray emission, neutron activation analysis. 

Click here to visit the course materials/ website.



PC4245 Particle Physics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3232 
Overlap: PC4213 (old code) 

Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Relativistic Kinematics. Symmetries, parity and CP violation. Bound states of quarks, quarkonium. Feynman calculus, quantum electrodynamics, cross sections and lifetimes. Deep inelastic scattering, parton model and Bjorken scaling . Weak interactions. Gauge theories. 

 


PC4248 Relativity
(Elective, 4MC) 
Prerequisite: PC3234 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Relativistic kinematics and Lorentz transformations, spacetime, relativistic mechanics. 
Homogeneous and inhomogeneous Lorentz groups. 
General tensor analysis, Riemann tensor. The gravitational field equation, the Schwarzschild solution and experimental tests of general relativity. 



PC4249 Astrophysics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3231 
Overlap: PC4226 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Overview of astronomy and astrophyscis; observational basis; physics of stellar interiors: equilibrium, energy transport, nuclear reactions, opacity, equation of state; birth of stars; structure of main sequence stars, post -main- sequence evolution; end stages of stars: supernovae, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes; x-ray and gamma-ray sources. 


PC4250 Advanced Analytical Techniques 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3193 or PC3194
Workload: 24 lecture hours + 8 tutorial hours + 18 laboratory hours 

A wholly continuous assessment module based on lectures, tutorials and practices. The lectures comprise of standard techniques in four broad areas: basic techniques –SEM/STM and XRD; surface analysis-ESCA and SIMS; optical spectroscopy-FTIR and Raman; nuclear methods-RBS and PIXIE. The tutorials consist of laboratory demonstration of the techniques and submitting the observations in the form of written summaries. The practical consists of one hands-on experiment on a selected technique that does not overlap with PC4100 Honours Project, and submitting the findings in the form of a laboratory report. 



PC4253 Thin Film Technology
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3235, PC3241 or PC3242 
Overlap: ML5201
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours

Basic features of various deposition techniques including their distinctions and especially their common underlying principles, brief survey of film characterization methods, fabrication of some selected thin film devices. 



PC4259 Surface Physics 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3130 or PC3242 or EE2004
Overlap: PC4223 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Surface tension, surface crystallography, surface physical properties such as relaxation, reconstruction and defects, surface chemical properties, surface segregation, surface electronic properties including surface states, band bending, dipole layer, work function, core-level-shifts. Fermi level pinning and plasmon, surface vibrational properties, experimental techniques such as LEED, RHEED, SEXAFS, XPS, UPS, AES, SIMS and EELS. 

Click here to visit the course materials/ website.

PC4262 Remote Sensing 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3231 
Overlap: PC4231 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Remote sensing with EM waves, passive sensors, active sensors, image processing, laser and sonic devices, applications. 

 


PC4264 Advanced Solid State Devices 
(Elective, 4MC) 

Prerequisite: PC3241 
Overlap: PC4251 (old code) 
Workload: 33 lecture hours + 18 tutorial hours 

Basic equations for semiconductor devices, homojunction and heterojunction: basic device technology, MIS diodes and CCD, MOSFET, non-volatile memory devices, tunnel devices, IMPATT and related transit-time diodes, transferred-electron devices, light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photoconductors, photodiodes, solar cells. 

 


PC4265 Techniques for Computerized Experiments 
(Elective, 4MC) 
Prerequisite: PC3193, PC3194, PC3245 or EE2005 or equivalent. 
Workload: 33 lectures + 18 tutorial hours. 

Handshaking digital Handshaking digital input/output; coordinated data collection and control, interrupts and direct memory access, controlling instruments with GPIB bus; designing with various A/D and D/A converter ICs; designing electronics for interfacing resistive sensors, temperature sensors, electro-optical sensors, magnetic sensors; system level circuit design. This module includes a project component for which each student is required to design a computerized physics experiment.