Modern physics

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We look forward to offering our seminars again in the summer semester 2025.
In order to better assess the actual demand, we kindly ask you to register your interest in participating early.

From theory to practice: a bridge between subject and teaching

We are convinced that for a "good teacher" a basic understanding of physics is essential in addition to didactic and pedagogical skills. The aim of this seminar is therefore to give you the opportunity to deepen your specialist knowledge in various subject areas as well as to prepare these topics from a didactic point of view. The selection of subject content is based on our experience of which topics are of particular interest to students, but for which there is only limited time available in the regular subject curriculum.

Possible topics are

  • Climate physics: structure and simulation of climate models, climate prediction, causes and consequences of climate change,
  • Thermodynamics: basic concept of entropy, how heat pumps and refrigerators work, the second law of thermodynamics
  • Solid-state physics: semiconductors, transistors, functional principle of solar cells
  • Particle physics: the standard model of particle physics
  • Quantum mechanics: QuBits, entanglement, quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography, quantum erasers
  • Special relativity: spacetime instead of space and time, twin paradox

Astrophysics topics are also possible: cosmology, black holes, cosmic background radiation - but we want to avoid overlaps with the regular astrophysics elective lecture.

The seminar follows a tandem approach in which the technical knowledge transfer is combined in a lecture-like format with a seminar-oriented preparation from a didactic point of view.