BSc 180 Core Elective, 4. - 6. Semester

• Forming condensed matter from atoms
• Diffusion and atomic interactions
• Methods for directly observing and measuring interactions between atoms
• Foundations in polymer physics
• DNA as a bio-polymer
• Instruments in molecular biology
• Methods for measuring the properties of individual DNA molecules
• Rheology, elasticity
• Pattern formation and non-linear dynamics
• Optics and microscopy

• Electroweak unification
• Parity violation in weak interactions, beta decay of neutrons
• CP violation
• Eichinvarianz and the Higgs Boson
• The standard model: Weinberg-Salam Theory
• Experimental methods: accelerators, interactions of radiation with matter, detectors
• Neutrino mass and mixtures, solar and atmospheric neutrinos
• Thermic history of the universe, primordial nucleosynthesis
• Element synthesis in stars

Experiment at PSI with data analysis and error calculus

• Gravitational constant
• Celestial mechanics and chaos
• Schwarzschild space-time and black holes
• Chandrasekhar mass scales
• Nuclear fusion in stars
• Main sequence of stars
• Friedmann equation and the expanding universe
• Cosmic microwave background

•  Scattering theory
•  Time-dependent perturbation theory
•  Interactions between light and matter
•  Many-body-problem and identical particles
•  Atom and molecule construction
•  Quantum mechanics many-body-systems
•  Quantum statistics
•  Bose-Einstein-Condensation

• Deformation and stress tensor
• Grating violations and plastic deformation
• Navier-Stokes-Equation
• Dynamics of vortexes
• Reynold number
• Prandt boundary layer

• Couette flow and Taylor instability
  Development of turbulence

The  Guide to Physics Studies provides comprehensive information about the Bachelor's and Master's programs.