GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
NUCLEAR PHYSICS I/FİZ305
Course Title: NUCLEAR PHYSICS I
Credits 4 ECTS 5
Course Semester 5 Type of The Course Compulsory
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To create a background about nuclear.
To learn about nuclear models, nuclear decay.
To learn and apply general concepts about nuclear events.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face.
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Basic Concepts in Nuclear Physics and Elements of Quantum Mechanics
2. Week  Nuclear properties: radius, mass and abundance of nuclei, binding energy, angular momentum and parity, moments
3. Week  Inter-nuclear force: Deuteron, and its properties
4. Week  Nuclear force: Nucleon-nucleon scattering, pp and nn interaction, exchange force model
5. Week  Nuclear Models: shell model
6. Week  Nuclear Models: collective model and other models
7. Week  Radioactive Decay; decay law, decay types; dating and natural radioactivity
8. Week  Midterm Exam, Alpha decay, spectrum and selection rules
9. Week  Beta decay, angular momentum parity and selection rules
10. Week  Beta Decay; double beta decay and beta spectrum
11. Week  Gamma decay, spectrum and selection rules
12. Week  Neutron Physics
13. Week  Fission and fission reactors
14. Week  Fusion and fusion reactors
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
10
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
4
56
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
14
0
0
 Reading Tasks
2
6
12
 Searching in Internet and Library
2
6
12
 Material Design and Implementation
5
3
15
 Report Preparing
1
8
8
 Preparing a Presentation
1
8
8
 Presentation
1
3
3
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
6
6
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
0
0
0
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
120
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
4.8
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To be able to evaluate the case in terms of physics.X
2Improving experimental practicality.X
3To earn the ability of problem solving and analysis.X
4Analyzing current problems with physical thought.X
5To learn the relationship between the courses taught in the other departments and to learn to use these features.X
6To develop the ability to connect physics and mathematics and to model natural phenomena.X
7Informing the audience correctly in an milieu where physics-related events are discussed.X
8To learn how to use the acquired knowledge in the development of society.X
9To have a competing personality to compare the acquired knowledge with those given in similar institutions and to go further.X
10To have a self-confident personality in the international scientific arena.X
11To have the ability to follow every development related to his / her profession and to use the acquired knowledge.X
12To educate people who are aware that scientific work will never end and should always be studied.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Berin Belma ŞİRVANLI , Assoc. Prof. M. Hicabi Bölükdemir , Assoc. Prof. Aynur ÖZCAN)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/bbelma , https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/hicabi , https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/aynur)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (bbelma@gazi.edu.tr , hicabi@gazi.edu.tr , aynur@gazi.edu.tr)