Physics Postgraduate Degrees

...2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course discusses MHD equilibria in cylindrical, toroidal, and noncircular tokamaks. It covers derivation...

...educational experience to provide as realistic as possible understanding of nuclear power systems short of being at the reactor. Lectures: 2 sessions /... Learn about: Nuclear Engineering...

...discuss modern techniques of generation of x-ray photons and neutrons and then follow with selected applications of newly developed photon and neutron...

...background in both the classical theory and in the instrumentation. The course will be run as a series of 8 lectures, each of which will be followed...

...and an overview of light-water reactor startup. Lectures and demonstrations employ computer simulation and the use of the MIT Research Reactor. Lectures...

...Topics will include: classical and quantum statistics, grand ensembles, fluctuations, molecular distribution functions, and other topics in equilibrium statistical mechanics...

...nondegenerate and quasidegenerate perturbation theory (van Vleck transformation); qualitative molecular orbital theory (Walsh diagrams); the notation...

...and in-class feedback. Topics include slide preparation, answering difficult questions, explaining technical details and presenting to a general audience... Learn about: Presentation Skills, Oral Communication, Communication Training...

...million years ago and in the way that it has developed ever since. Lectures: 1 session / week, 1.5 hours / session Permission of instructor...

...analysis of geomorphic processes, and examines the interaction of climate, tectonics, and surface processes in the sculpting of Earth's surface... Learn about: Quantitative Analysis...

...from our solar system and from exoplanets. Focus on terrestrial (rocky and metallic) planets, though more volatile-rich bodies are also examined. Lectures...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session In this course, principles of thermodynamics are used to infer the physical conditions of formation...

...Differential Equations (18.03) This course is designed to be a survey of the various subdisciplines of geophysics (geodesy, gravity, geomagnetism...

...and viscoelastic. Applications of Continuum Mechanics to Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (12.005) and either Advanced Calculus for Engineers (18...

...This course constitutes a broad overview of observational and theoretical seismology and the utilization of seismic waves for the study of the Earth's interior...

...to explain the interaction of individual organisms and their resulting collective dynamics mathematically and, more recently, computationally...

...Fundamental problems in the field of complex systems focus on the importance of interactions and adaptations in a hierarchy of length and time scales...

...and round-table reviews of current literature. Subjects of interest include: problems in natural science (e.g., geology, ecology, and biology)...

...1 hour / session Read the background material in enough detail to be able to discuss it in class; if you are unfamiliar with it, formulate questions about... Learn about: GCSE Physics...

...Seismic imaging, geodynamical modeling, and nobel gas analyses have provided spectacular new insight in the nature and scale of mantle convection...