Jobs of education programme
High school physics teacher Astronomer
Telecommunications Specialist
Groundwater professional
The field
Science Type of certificate
bachelor degree Name of certificate
Certificate in Physics The specialization
Physics Place and address of the program
Damascus- BaramkehTelephone: 0093-011-2121978
0093-011-3392-4966
Fax: 00963-011-2119896
Aims of the department
This department looks forward to be the pioneer in educational, academic, and research scopes to contribute in developing the local society, which can be done by two ways. Firstly, it graduates high qualified students and establishes institutions to serve the society. Secondly, it develops the scientific and technical scopes, studies, and applied researches needed depending on expert staff and using modern and specialized laboratories. This department aims to:
- Cultivate student’s scientific and practical personality enabling him/her serving and developing the society well.
- Graduate excellent students who are able to compete in research and practical scopes.
- Create new specializations to expand professions and vary the public services.
- Support the programs of high education to enable students getting master and doctorate degrees
Conditions of acceptance
- Having a scientific baccalaureate by 1850 degree at least and getting 260 mark in physics.
- Applying to the system of the university’s acceptance.
Preferable skills
- To have computer, mathematic, and linguistic skills.
- The ability to solve problems.
- To have skills in the fields of theoretical and practical physical knowledge to serve the needs of different institutions in society.
- A graduate student will have sufficient information qualifying him/her in industrial, and research scopes to deal with developed devices, which their industries and uses depend on wide and various scientific experience. Also, top students will be qualified to continue their high education in different physical fields.
Number of enrolled students per year
600 students Length of study
Four years Language of study
Arabic Sectors of careers that are worked in
- Working in the academic field (as an instructor in universities) or in the technical field (as a laboratory technician).
- Teaching in public schools.
- Working as a researcher assistant in research centers.
- Working in factories, such as factories of iron, steel, and petrochemical.
- Working in technical professions at the military sector, such as the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Aviation, Ministry of Interior, and army.
- Working in scientific and technical centers and in laboratories of quality, which are managed bythe Ministry of Commerce and organization of standers and metrology.
Pursuing academic study
Master and doctorate.Professional postgraduate diploma in radical safety.
Course description
| subjects | Description |
| Geometrical optics/y1 |
This course deals with the nature of light and describes light propagation in terms of "rays". The "ray" in geometric optics is an abstraction, or "instrument", which can be used to approximately model how light will propagate. Geometrical optics provides rules, which may depend on the color (wavelength) of the ray, for propagating these rays through an optical system. This is a significant simplification of optics that fails to account for optical effects such as diffraction and interference. |
| Chemical Principles /y1 |
This course provides opportunities for students to develop basic skills in writing formulas and equations and calculate quantities, The course covers the study of the atomic structure of electronic orbitals and shows you can understand the order of the elements in the periodic table by understanding the electronic depositions and also deals with some of the topics of organic chemistry through the study of alkanes and alkenes. |
| General chemistry 1/y1 | This course provides opportunities for students to develop basic skills in elements and compounds; basic chemical calculations, mole problems, stoichiometry, and solution concentrations; gas laws; thermochemistry electronic structure of atoms; periodic properties of the elements;chemical bonding. |
| Electricity/y1 | The course covers the concepts of Electrostatics and the laws of DC, and its applications. Also examines the concept of static magnetic, and the study of the movement of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields and their applications. It also examines the phenomenon of electric transport in solids and vacuum. |
| General physics/y1 | The course covers: Measurement and Units, Vectors, particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, angular momentum; conservation laws; rigid bodiesNewton's laws, rotational motion |
| Experimental Physics / y1 | Introduction to laboratory techniques, experimental equipment and data analysis and written and oral presentation of experiment results. Also fundamental laboratory experiments in Geometrical optics are carried out in this course,learning the skills of measurements,Uncertainties and Error Propagationand training on the use of certain computer software. |
| Electronics (1)/y2 | The course includes the development of skills and understanding of basic principles of electronic instrumentations. Typical topics include the study and use of simple circuits and basic electronic devices like diodes and transistors, the measurement of characteristics of electronic signals and the use of basic instrumentation like oscilloscopes, amplifiers, signal generators, power supplies, detectors and others for conducting concrete physical experiments, The course includes various methods of analyzing circuit: node and mesh analysis, and the various theories of the circuit: The venin, Norton. |
| Electricity and Magnetism/y2 | This course provides an opportunity to learn about magnetic fields and their effects on the movement of cargo and determine the forces caused by magnetic effects, and covers the magnetic forces and fields,Magnetic induction, motors and generators, electric power,electrodynamics, dielectric theory, magnetic properties of matter, and Maxwell‘s Equations. |
| Quantum physics/y2 | This course aims to develop the student's ability to understand and absorb the basic phenomena that led to the emergence of quantum theory and focus on the new concepts introduced by this theory. This course is very important because it has played a significant role in the development of many modern technologies and it covers:Schrodinger’s equation compared with the classical concepts, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, particle nature of electromagnetic wave, and it is an important approach to quantum mechanics. |
| Experimental Physics (oscillation and waves)/y2 | This course aims to identify experimentally the different types of motion and oscillatory motion and that the student learns to handle all experiments. Also the student learns to link experiments that deal withsimilar physical amounts, and to distinguishbetween constants that do not relatethe nature of thematerial. |
| Oscillation and waves/y2 | This course aims to identifydifferent types of wave motion and oscillatory motionthat have become involved in all areas of applied sciences such as medicine, pharmacy and telecommunications.it covers: band theory, scanning electron microscope(wave of electron), GPS systems and atomic clock(atomic waves), plasma waves (which can be used safely in the treatment of cancer), gravitational waves, nonlinear waves. |
| Experimental Physics (3)/y2 | This course cares about the experimentalaspect ofthermodynamicsandelectromagnetismand in linewiththeinformation that the studentreceived fromthe theoretical part. |
| Analytical mechanics/y2 | This course represents alternativeadvanced of Newtonmechanics, it depends on a general differential principles and in a study ofthe movement it depends on theLagrangeequationswhich arethe basis for thethemesof This course, and in thecore themesofthis course we find Hamilton's equations and Hamilton Jacobi equation. |
| Mechanics(2)/y2 | In this course we go deep inside the basic concepts in mechanics in general and then move on to introduce students totensor of inertiafor axes parallel and axes meets at a point, and then describe main themes of inertia and its advantages to prepare to the study the movement of the solid body and compound pendulum, and course deals with particle collisionand study movements in non-inertial reference frame, as well as the course covers the basic concepts of the theory of relativity and finally the movement of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. |
| Thermodynamics/y2 | This course will provide comprehensive knowledge in the thermodynamics science. Prerequisite for Statistical mechanics and Statistical mechanics taught by a student in the third year. It covers: thermal equilibrium, main types of thermodynamic processes: reversible process and their irreversible process, three basic laws of thermodynamics and their applications, in various cooling devices and heat engines, Entropy. |
| Experimental Physics(5)(electronics)/y3 | This course aims to identify experimentally the types of diodes and their applications, and to recognize by experiment the transistor connecting methods the importance of each method for other methods, and covers: Transistors, Feedback and operational amplifiers, circuit simulation tools, Analog signal processing techniques and modulation/demodulation common laboratory measurements and techniques illustrated via topical applications like alarm circuits, switches, vibration generators and dumpers. |
| quantum mechanics(1)/y3 | The course includes the concept of wave function,Schrödinger equation and solutions for one-dimensional systems, Dirac equation, Separation of variables and solutions for three-dimensional systems, application to hydrogen atom. Spherically symmetric potentials and angular momentum eigenstates Spin angular momentum, Bell's inequality boseEinstein . |
| quantum mechanics(2)/y3 | This is a continuation of the course of quantum mechanics (1), which is given in the first semester of the third year of the course includes approximate methods in solving the Schrodinger equation for fundamental physical problems ….!!!! |
| Statistical physics/y3 | This course is for the third year students and emphasizesstudents’ knowledge in thermodynamics. Statistical physics or thermodynamics statistical gives the student knowledge of the concept Statistical Entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics and the concept ofideal gases, Bose and Fermi gases, functions of a random variable, Concepts of macroscopic variables and thermodynamic equilibrium. It also includes a number of applications in solid state physics such as heat capacity, bose Einstein condensate. Also covers: critical exponents, main field theory, Ensemble theory. |
| physical optics/y3 | Physical optics, or we can it wave optics, is the branch of optics which studies interference, diffraction, polarization,and its applications,and nonlinear light and holography, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. The course helps to understand a lot of phenomena that we see when we are dealing with light and with electromagnetic waves in general and is considered a fundamental course and any student needs it to specialize in the field of optics, laser and optical spectra. |
| Electrodynamics/y3 | Electrodynamics is a complement to the study of a series of courses like electricity, magnetism, and then electromagnetic. Starts with the study of conservation of energy, charge and angular momentum in preparation for the study of field potential, lennard jones potential,relative electrodynamics, electromagnetic field tensor, relative potential, hamiltonianlagrangian relativity. |
| Nuclear Physics(1)/y3 | This course covers: nuclear structure, nuclear forces, nucleus and nuclear radiations, binding energy and nuclear stability, interactions of radiation with matter, calculate energy by depending on TheLiquid-DropModel, Nuclear decays and fundamental interactions. Prerequisite: quantum mechanics,electricity,electromagnetic. Students need this course to specialize in the field of nuclear physics and radiation. |
| Electronics(2) /y3 | This course aims to identify working principle of diode andits various applications and transistors and its various applications. Thecourse also aims torecognize theterms ofoperation oftransistorsin order toextend its virtuallifetime and its importance to make logic gates and binary numeration system, Especially to identify the most economical gates that can be easily convertedtoother types ofgates. |
| Introduction to solid state physics/y3 | This course is a start of series of courses that deals with solid state physics.it covers: crystal structure, crystal planes and Miller indices, thebasictechniquesfor the study ofcrystal structure such as X-ray diffraction, Neutron diffraction, Electron diffraction, types of lattice defects for the one- two- three- dimensional, the nature of interaction between atoms in crystal, types of bonds between atoms in crystal, lattice vibration, lattice heat capacity, thermal expansion. |
| Solid state physics (1)/y3 | This course is the second part of the solid state physics series. It covers : classical electronic theory of metals, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity in classical way, Drude model, Fermi gas theory, andstudythe phenomena ofheat andelectrical conductivity According tothis hypothesis thenexplain some ofthe properties of solid state according to this theories, energy band theory, the effective mass , optical properties of semiconductors. |
| Nuclear physics(2)/y4 | This course is an introduction to the basics of nuclear physics.This course will provide an accurate description of the fundamental forces:strong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitational.And shows the importance of these forces in explaining the basic characteristics of the atomic nucleus. The course also covers Nuclear models: The Liquid-Drop Model, The Fermi gas model, The shell model, and the uses of these models to determine the properties of the atomic nucleus in its stable state, and also deals with (beta, alpha, gamma) decay. Prerequisite: nuclear physics (1). This course is an important fundamentalbase for graduated students in the field of nuclear physics. |
| Plasma Physics/y4 | Basic Plasma Physics, Particle motions, plasmas as fluids, waves, diffusion, equilibrium and stability. |
| Experimental Physics (7)/y4 | This course deals with physicalexperimentsin the field of solid state physics, and it representsone ofthe eightexperimental coursesinthe Department of Physics. The course emphasis on data and error analysis techniques. Students describe a subset of experiments in scientific paper format. Prerequisites: solid state (1), solid state (2). |
| Atomic physics and spectroscopy/y4 | This course provides an opportunity to identify the atomic spectroscopy and molecules spectroscopy and classified spectroscopy according to the radiation and also according to the absorbing and radiating radiation. It covers: atomic structure and the interaction between atoms and fields, atomic spectra, excited states, hydrogen and multi-electron atoms, molecular degrees of freedom (electronic, vibrational, and rotational), elementary group theory considerations and molecular spectroscopy, Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| Electronics (3)/y4 | This course covers : the interaction betweenelectronsin the solid state bodyand theelectromagnetic spectrumwhere Energy exchange processes happens between electrons and photons, energy band diagram for semiconductor, transport mechanisms in semiconductors, generate charge carriers and recombination of it using the electro-thermal emission theory, optical propertiesofsemiconductors. |
| History of physics /y4 | The course aims to:to know the dates of the most important scientific leaps in physics, that serves as an scientific revolutions, for example Einstein'stheory of relativity, the reasons behind the rise of experimental and scientific method, common drives in science development, and it also covers most of thebranches ofphysics: mechanics, electricity, magnetic, electromagnetic, light, movingfluids, astronomy. |
| Solid state physics(2)/y4 | This course covers : explanation of magnetic properties microscopic and classical view, distinguish the difference between diamagnetic paramagnetic and ferromagnetic, classicalsuperconductivity and high temperature and the study ofcriticalparametersfor this phenomenon such as critical current and critical field, the electrical properties ofinsulators, Combination of electric and magnetic dipoles, deposition of thin films, order and disorder. |
| Laser physics /y4 | It covers the nature of laser light, ways to produce laser light, spontaneous emission, stimulated emission, amplification, oscillator model, rate equations, stimulated transitions, population inversion, laser amplification,the properties oflaser beam somelaser applicationsindifferent areas:scientific, industrialmedical..., procedures Safety dealing with laser |
| Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy/y4 | The course aimsto givean accurate visualize of atomic and molecular structure, the atomic part covers the impact of magnetic and electric field on atoms, and the molecular part covers The structure ofmoleculesand the defining of its bond lengths and angles |