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INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / FİZ505 - PHYSICS (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Code: FİZ505 Course Title: MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS I Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department PHYSICS (MASTER'S DEGREE)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer BAYRAM DEVİREN (bayram.deviren@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To learn the subjects given in course contents section

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 To be able to analyze physical problems by using mathematical methods. PO-1 Develop, enhance and deepen and obtain creative original definitions by combining current knowledge of the field and critical thinking and research based upon M. Sc. program skill and outcomes
PO-2 Comprehend interdisciplinary interactions and relations relevant to physics; analyze, compose, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas and to obtain original results by using expertise knowledge of the field
Examination
LO-2 Can solve differential equations commonly used to in physics. PO-2 Comprehend interdisciplinary interactions and relations relevant to physics; analyze, compose, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas and to obtain original results by using expertise knowledge of the field
Examination
LO-3 Can be used solutions of orthogonal polynomials in physics. PO-2 Comprehend interdisciplinary interactions and relations relevant to physics; analyze, compose, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas and to obtain original results by using expertise knowledge of the field
Examination
LO-4 Can be used linear vector spaces and matrices in the physics. PO-2 Comprehend interdisciplinary interactions and relations relevant to physics; analyze, compose, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas and to obtain original results by using expertise knowledge of the field
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Complex variables and functions, applications of residues, differatial equations and their solutions are widely used in physics, boundary value problems, Fourier series, Fourier integrals and their applications, orthogonal functions, orthogonal functions, Strum-Lioville eigenvalue equation, Gamma and Beta functions, Bessel fonctions, Legedre, Hermite, Laugerre polynoms and their series, Green functions, linear vector spaces and matrices
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Complex variables and complex functions Questions and answers
2 Application of rezidue Questions and answers
3 Differatial equations and their solutions are widely used in physics Questions and answers
4 Boundary-value problems Questions and answers
5 Fourier series Questions and answers
6 Fourier integrals and their applications Questions and answers
7 Ortogonal functions Questions and answers
8 mid-term exam
9 Strum-Lioville eigenvalue equations Questions and answers
10 Gamma and Beta functions Questions and answers
11 Bessel functions Questions and answers
12 Legendre, Hermite polynomials Questions and answers
13 Laguerre polynomials and related series expansions Questions and answers
14 Green functions Questions and answers
15 Linear vector space and matrices Questions and answers
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials
G. Arfken, Mathematic Methods for Physicists, Academic Press, Boston, 1985

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 0
       b) Search in internet/Library 4 12 48
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 7 8 56
mid-term exam 2 1 2
Own study for final exam 10 3 30
final exam 2 1 2
0
0
Total work load; 180