| Course Name | Nuclear Physics I |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| PHYS 403 | Fall/Spring | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
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| Course Language | English | ||||||||
| Course Type | Elective | ||||||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | ||||||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | ||||||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | ||||||||
| Course Objectives | After introducing nuclear structure, radiation from unstable nuclei, the effect of these on daily life will be examined using nuclear scattering models. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | Measurement of radiation and evaluating the effect on biological tissue, nuclear technology applications in industry, medicine and energy sector are discussed. |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Fundamental concepts in nuclear Physics | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 1 |
| 2 | Radioactivity and scattering. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 1 |
| 3 | Nuclear structure and Shell model. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 2 |
| 4 | Behavior of single and collective models. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 2 |
| 5 | Instability of nuclei and gamma radiation. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 3 |
| 6 | Alpha decay. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 3 |
| 7 | Beta Decay | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 3 |
| 8 | Review | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 1-3 |
| 9 | Nuclear Reactions | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 4 |
| 10 | Direct and indirect reactions | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 4 |
| 11 | Electron-material interaction | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 5 |
| 12 | Gamma radiation effect. | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 5 |
| 13 | Nuclear Detectors | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 6 |
| 14 | Accelerators | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 6 |
| 15 | General review | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley Ch 1-6 |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Nuclear Physics: Principles and Applications, John Lilley |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Introductory Nuclear Physics, K.S. Krane |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
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| Homework / Assignments | 5 | 10 |
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| Midterm | 2 | 40 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 8 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| 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 | 1 | 36 | 36 |
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| Homework / Assignments | 2 | ||
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| Midterms | 2 | 20 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 40 | |
| Total | 180 |
| # | 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | X | ||||
| 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, | X | ||||
| 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). | X | ||||
| 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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