Mechanics, PHY101, General Physics I, turgut.yilmaz@xmu.edu.my
Undergraduate Research I is a major elective to provide outstanding undergraduates an opportunity to pursue independent research under the supervision of researchers and professors. Students will engage actively in research, discussions, intellectual communications and other creative activities. By complementing the conventional classroom learning, it places students at the frontiers of scientific research.
Solid State Physics, PHY306, study of structural, electronic, and thermal properties of solids, turgut.yilmaz@xmu.edu.my
This is an guided design lab module to stimulate student's creativity of designing experiments and/or instruments for investigation of physics phenomena. At the end of the module, students will undergo a brief viva to explain their design steps taken to investigate their physics problem.
This lab module complements the teaching of PHY101 Mechanics and PHY102 Thermal Physics.
This lab module complements the teaching of PHY101 Mechanics and PHY102 Thermal Physics.
Advanced quantum mechanics with elements relevant to present research directions.
This course introduces students to parametric equations and polar coordinates, geometry
of space, vector functions, application of partial derivatives, maxima and minima, multiple
integrals, iterated integrals, applications of multiple integrals, line and surface integrals,
Green’s Theorem, Gauss’s Divergence Theorem and Stokes’s Theorem.
This course covers mathematical techniques relevant to physics. The first part consists
of elementary complex analysis, including complex functions and derivatives, Taylor and
Laurent series, and contour integrations. The second part of the course involves methods
solving partial differential equations. The topics are boundary conditions, the wave, heat,
and Laplace equations, separation of variables, and special functions.
This course is an introduction to General Relativity. Part I establishes the geometri-
cal tools needed for relativity, starting with a review of Special Relativity along with an
introduction of tensor calculus and tensor notation. Subsequently the relevant notions
of differential geometry such as geodesics, Riemann and Ricci curvatures are covered.
This is followed by a relativistic formulation of the stress-energy tensor. The notion of
stress-energy causing curvature is given by the Einstein equations. Part II studies the
consequences and solutions of the Einstein equations, particularly the Schwarzschild so-
lution, FLRW cosmology, and gravitational waves
The first course in quantum physics in the physics (BSc (Hon))program. Discuss the failure of the classical physics,the birth of quantum physics and give foundamental concept of quantum mechanics and its application in atomic ,molecular and nuclear physics.