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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

Single-electron atoms, magnetic moment,
Assessment Method: spin-orbit interaction, total angular
Summative 60% momentum, relativistic effect, fine
Assessment: structure, identical particles, two-electron
Continuous 40% atoms, multi-electron atoms, coupling of
Assessment: angular momentum, periodic table,
hyperfine structure, spectral linewidth,
SIF2029 APPLIED PHYSICS PRACTICAL (2 time-dependent perturbation theorem,
CREDITS) atom and photonic interaction, excited
radiation, spontaneous emission,
Applied physics experiments covering stimulated absorbtion and emission,
topics in Solid State Physics, Plasma Einstein A and B coefficients, diatomic
Physics, Optics, Radiation Physics, molecules and their spectral – vibration,
Materials Science, and Photonics. rotation, electronic.

Assessment Method: Assessment Method:
Summative 0% Summative 60%
Assessment: Assessment:
Continuous 100% Continuous 40%
Assessment: Assessment:

SIF3003 SOLID STATE PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
LEVEL 3
Introduction to types of solids, structure of
SIF3001 NUCLEAR PHYSICS (3 CREDITS) crystalline solids: periodicity, lattice and
unit cell, Bravais lattices, directions and
Nuclear structure and properties, Nuclear planes in crystals, X-ray diffraction,
scattering, Nuclear force and force diffraction techniques, reciprocal lattice,
exchange. Brillouin zone, bonding in solids, dynamics
The physics of nuclear decays (alpha, beta of monoatomic and diatomic lattices (1-D
& gamma), isospin. and 3-D), density of states, dispersion of
Physics of nuclear reactions : fission and phonons, thermal properties: specific heat
fusion, Nuclear reactions in astrophysics capacity, thermal conductivity, free and
(big bang nucleosynthesis, stellar quantized electron models, D.C.
nucleosynthesis). conductivity and electron dispersion, band
theory of solids: Bloch function, Kronig-
Assessment Method: Penney model, band theory of solids:
Summative 60% effective mass, density of states and
Assessment: concentration of electrons.
Continuous 40%
Assessment: Assessment Method:
Summative 60%
Assessment:
Continuous 40%
SIF3002 ATOMICS AND MOLECULAR Assessment:
PHYSICS (3 CREDITS)
SIF3018 PHYSICS FOR WORK (2 CREDITS)

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