Bachelor (before winter semester 2024/25)

With the focus on general physics  your studies in the core subjects of physics will be deepened. You have the opportunity to get acquainted with special fields of physics, and you can set your own priorities.

The Elective Area of Physical Direction allows you to deepen interesting physical topics. At the moment you can chose from biophysics, measuring methods, modern optics, microcontrollers and electronics, computation, crystallography and computer simulation of many particle systems.

The elective area of nonphysical direction allows you to broaden your knowledge individually. Here you can choose from a long list of lectures ranging from neighboring natural sciences to mathematics, computer science and engineering to business administration and patent law.

The focus Biological Physics is aimed at students with a special interest in the physical basis of biological processes. Many key processes of living nature, from dynamic structure formation in individual cells to the organization of entire organisms, can not be understood without contributions from physics.

Here are the elective areas partly predefined with basic lectures on biophysics, biochemistry, bioinformatics and genetics. The laboratories include special biophysical experiments.

In the focus Technical Physics you will be familiarized with practice-relevant physical techniques. In addition, you will acquire basic knowledge of business administration and engineering as well as patent law.

WIth the focus Environmental Physics, you will learn about the physical processes that determine the processes in our environment. With the help of physical laws you quantitatively describe processes in the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and in the soil. Here you can choose between the specialization directions Ecological Modeling (see figure), Meteorology & Soil Physics, and Hydrology.

WIth the focus on Physics and Philosophy, you will receive a solid education in physics and will also learn the basics of philosophical thinking. In doing so you familiarize yourself with logic, reasoning and scientific theory.

• Structure and function of DNA and proteins
• Transport mechanisms in living cells
• Mechanical properties of cells
  
• Physics of nerve cells

Biophysics A is an integral part of the focus Biophysics and therefore can in this case not be chosen as an additional elective subject.

• Data analysis and measurement errors
  
• important statistical distributions
  
• Measuring method based on optical, electrical and other methods
  
• Noise and Noise Reduction Procedures
  

Technical Physics A is an integral part of the  focus on Technical Physics and therefore can in this case not be chosen as an additional elective subject.

• Wave optics
  
• Gaussian rays
  
• Fourier optics
  
• Polarization
  
• Quantum optics / photon optics
  
• Examples of integrated optics / fiber optics, negative refractive index and metamaterials, photonic crystals, nano-optics, optical components, non-linear optics

• Basics of computer-aided data acquisition
• Programming a microcontroller
• Construction of a microcontroller system
• Elementary algorithms of digital signal processing
  

• General principles of computer simulations in physics
  
• Numerical basics: machine accuracy, systems of equations, integration
• Partial differential equations
  
• Nonlinear optimization
  
• Parallelization
  

• Symmetry of crystalline solids
• Symmetry of physical properties of crystalline solids
• Basics of X-ray diffraction
• Modern methods for crystal structure determination
  

• Microscopic many particle models
  
• Physical observables
  
• Development of simulation codes
  
• Numerically calculated physical quantities
  
• Visualization of numerical properties

• Advanced calculation methods
  
• Application of higher analytical and symbolic solution methods
• Computer algebra systems
• Visualization of results

• Learning modern theoretical methods on the basis of real problems
• Divided into four projects on changing current topics
  
• Development, implementation and analysis of small simulation projects and/or analytical calculations

• Biochemistry for Physicists 1
• Biochemistry for physicists 2
• Bioinformatics
• Genetics
  

• Design and manufacturing for physicists
• Material sciences
  
• Introduction to materials science for physicists
  
• Introduction to the design and manufacturing for physicists
  
• Fluid mechanics
  
• Basics of mechatronics
  
• Machine tools
  

• Patent law for physicists
  

• Introduction to general business administration for physicists
  
• Introduction to economics
  
• Statistical Methods I
  
• Statistical Methods II
  
• Microeconomics I
  
• Microeconomics II
  
• European Integration
  

• Geophysics
  
• Geodynamics
  
• Numerical Methods in Geophysics
  

• Concepts of programming
  
• Programming in Java
  
• Computer architecture and computer networks
  
• Algorithms and data structures
  
• Multimedia Systems I
  
• Artificial intelligence
  

• Mathematics on computer
  
• Complex Analysis
  

• Introduction to Sociology