Courses

Magnetic surveying – principles, geomagnetic field, interpretations, instruments and applications. Electrical surveying – resistivity of rocks and minerals, current flow in the ground, methods, instruments, interpretation, applications. Induced...

Irradiation facilities: Neutron Sources; Nuclear Reactors Source; Isotopic Neutron Sources; Neutron Generator (Accelerator) Sources; Kinetics of activation: Irradiation Scheme (Conditions); Gamma Ray Spectrometry (Measurement of Gamma Rays). Absolute Method;...

Physical properties of the ocean and seawater, sound and light; T-S forcing and conservation laws, Global T-S distribution; Equations of continuity and motion; Balance of forces; the effect of Earth's rotation; Ocean currents; Deep currents and general...

Laboratory experiments including those fundamental to modern physics and those illustrating modern experimental techniques.  Students are introduced to Scientific Report writing and making references.

Laboratory experiments including those fundamental to modern physics and those illustrating modern experimental techniques. Students are introduced to Scientific Report writing and making references.

Divergence and curl of a vector; Force Fields, conservative and non-conservative forces; Gravitation; Equipotential surfaces; Gradient of a potential; Gauss's law and applications; Central forces and applications to two-particle systems; Orbits; Escape...

Laws of thermodynamics and applications; Heat engines, heat pumps, entropy, thermal pollution and global warming; Unavailability of energy; Heat death; Thermodynamic potentials – Gibbs functions, Helmholtz functions and Free energy functions; phase...

Vector and Tensor Analysis; Determinants, Matrices and Group Theory; Infinite Series; First Order Differential Equation; Functions of Complex Variables; Second Order Differential Equations; Special Functions - Bessel Functions, Gamma Functions, Beta Functions...

Electromagnetic potentials: scalar and vector potentials; Poisson and Laplace equations; General methods of solving electrostatic problems; Electrostatic boundary value problems; Method of images; Magnetic materials, magnetization, magnetic field intensity H...

Voltage, current and resistance; Voltage dividers; Thévenin’s and Norton’s equivalent circuits; Diodes and diode circuits; design of regulated power supply, basic transistor circuits (Bipolar-Junction Transistors and Field-Effect Transistors);...