Academic Catalog

PHYS328 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND PARTICLES

Course Code: 2300328
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 4(4-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: Physics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Once in several years.

Course Content

Nuclear properties and nuclear models; alpha, beta and gamma decays; the Mössbauer effect; excited states of nuclei; fission and fusion; elementary particles; nucleon forces; fundamental interactions and conservation laws; hyper charge and quarks; isospin; pions and muons.