Search result: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2018
Physics Bachelor  | ||||||
 Additional Courses, Seminars and Colloquia | ||||||
| First or Second Year Additional Courses | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 402-0351-00L | Astronomy | Z | 2 credits | 2V | S. P. Quanz | |
| Abstract | An overview on the important topics in modern astronomy: planets, sun, stars, milky way, galaxies, and cosmology | |||||
| Learning objective | This lecture gives a general introduction to main topics in modern astronomy. The lecture provide a basis for the more advanced lectures in astrophysics. | |||||
| Content | Planeten, Sonne, Sterne, Milchstrasse, Galaxien und Kosmologie. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Kopien der Präsentationen werde zur Verfügung gestellt. | |||||
| Literature | Astronomie. Harry Nussbaumer, Hans Martin Schmid vdf Vorlesungsskripte (8. Auflage) Der Neue Kosmos. A. Unsöld, B. Baschek, Springer | |||||
| 401-1511-00L | Geometry | Z | 3 credits | 2V + 1U | T. Ilmanen | |
| Abstract | We will study the topology and geometry of 2 and 3 dimensional spaces (manifolds) from an informal point of view. | |||||
| Learning objective | -what is it like to live in a non-Euclidean space (for example, in a surface)? -orientation, genus, curvature -classification of closed orientable surfaces -spherical, Euclidean, and hyperbolic geometry -3-manifolds a la Thurston | |||||
| Literature | Jeffrey R. Weeks. The Shape of Space. Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland. 1884. | |||||
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