| Course Name | Experimental Methods in Physics |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| PHYS 312 | Fall/Spring | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Online | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | Problem SolvingQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The main objetive of this course is to teach the students the modern experimental methods in physics and deepen their knowledge on this subject. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | Designing an experiment, data collecting, data analyzing and experiment reporting stages in experimental physics will be explained with examples. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | What is an experimental science about? | Colin Cooke, An Introduction to Experimental Physics (CRC Press, 1996). Chapter 1, 1-12. ISBN: 9781857285789 |
| 2 | Basic information, Measurement, Units of Measurement, Fundamental Concepts Related to Measurement | Colin Cooke, An Introduction to Experimental Physics (CRC Press, 1996). Chapter 2, 13-23. ISBN: 9781857285789 |
| 3 | The stages of experimental method | Colin Cooke, An Introduction to Experimental Physics (CRC Press, 1996). Chapter 2, 24-38. ISBN: 9781857285789 |
| 4 | Design of experiments, measuring the experimental variables | Colin Cooke, An Introduction to Experimental Physics (CRC Press, 1996). Chapter 3, 39-54. ISBN: 9781857285789 |
| 5 | Spectroscopic methods | Gunter ZWEIG and Joseph SHERMA, Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis (Academic Press 1977). Chapter 3, 75-100. ISBN 9780127843094 |
| 6 | Spectroscopic methods | Gunter ZWEIG and Joseph SHERMA, Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis (Academic Press 1977). Chapter 3, 75-100. ISBN 9780127843094 |
| 7 | Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy | Gunter ZWEIG and Joseph SHERMA, Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis (Academic Press 1977). Chapter 5, 137- 151. ISBN 9780127843094 |
| 8 | X-ray Diffraction Diffractometer | C.Suryanarayana, M.Grant Norton, X-Ray Diffraction A practical Approach (1998), 3-93. ISBN 9781489901507 |
| 9 | Magnetic Resonance | Christoph Juchem, Douglas L.Rothman, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Academic Press 2014), Chapter 1, 3-14. ISBN 9780124016880 |
| 10 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | P.J.Hore, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, (Oxford, 2015). Chapter 6, 80-103. ISBN 9780198703419 |
| 11 | Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy | There is no required material.Motoji Ikeya, New Applications of Electron Spin Resonance (1993), Chapter 1, 23-64. ISBN 9810211996 |
| 12 | Raman Spectroscopy | Herman A. Szymanski, Raman Spectroscopy Theory and Practice (Springer New York, NY, 2012). Chapter 2, 44-81. ISBN 9781468430264 |
| 13 | Experimental methods in condensed matter physics | There is no required material. |
| 14 | Experimental methods in atomic and molecular physics | There is no required material. |
| 15 | Semester review | |
| 16 | Final exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Colin Cooke, An Introduction to Experimental Physics (CRC Press, 1996). ISBN: 9781857285789 Gunter ZWEIG and Joseph SHERMA, Spectroscopic Methods of Analysis (Academic Press 1977). ISBN 9780127843094
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| Suggested Readings/Materials | C.Suryanarayana, M.Grant Norton, X-Ray Diffraction A practical Approach (1998). ISBN 9781489901507 Christoph Juchem, Douglas L.Rothman, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Academic Press 2014), ISBN 9780124016880 P.J.Hore, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, (Oxford, 2015). ISBN 9780198703419 Motoji Ikeya, New Applications of Electron Spin Resonance (1993), ISBN 9810211996 Herman A. Szymanski, Raman Spectroscopy Theory and Practice (Springer New York, NY, 2012). ISBN 9781468430264 |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | 32 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 2 | |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | ||
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| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | 1 | 24 | |
| Total | 116 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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