Course Overview

Getting essential Physics knowledge. Bring students from different
backgrounds to the level required to follow the core courses and the
specialization courses.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

Bachelor in Physics

Grading Philosophy

Written exams in December

- 3 to 4 written asignments (40% of the final grade)

- 3 to 4 2-hours exams (60% of the final grade)

Course schedule

Choice of:

A) STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND THERMODYNAMICS (6 ECTS)

-  Micro canonical ensemble

-  Canonical ensemble

-  Grand canonical ensemble

-  Phenomenology of phase transitions

-  Interacting systems

-  Approximation of average fields

-  One-dimensional statistical physics

B) ELECTROMAGNETISM & ELECTRODYNAMICS (3 ECTS)

-  Electrodynamics of vacuum

-  Retarded potentials

-  Accelerated particle radiation

-  Electromagnetic properties of a dielectric medium

-  Propagation of fast particles

C) LAB PROGRAMMING (3 ECTS)

-  Introduction to Labview
-      Introduction to Matlab
-      Introduction to Python
-      Introduction to Cell biology (3 ECTS)

-  Evolution, type of cells and organisms (tree of life)

-  Structure of a cell

-  Metabolism of the cell

-  Cell division, cell death.

-  Genetics, chromosomes and DNA

-  Stem cells

-  Proteins

-  Membrane biophysics

-  Beyond the cell

-  Modern molecular biology tools and methods

Course type

Lectures. - 108-110 contact hours (102 lectures, 6-8 exams) - 408 hours self-study (204 private reading, 102 writing assessment, 68 exam preparation, 34 group work preparation)

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

https://light-st.u-bordeaux.fr/Duration: 4 months

Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: In-class learning, written assignments, written exams

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