Physics

This six-week summer course provides individual research training through the experience of belonging to a specific laboratory at Tohoku University. Students are assigned to a laboratory research group with Japanese and international students under the supervision of Tohoku University faculty. They participate in various group activities, including seminars, for the purpose of training in research methods and developing teamwork skills. The specific topic studied depends on the instructor in charge of the laboratory to which each student is assigned. The methods of assessment vary with the student's project and laboratory instructor. Students submit an abstract concerning the results of their individual research each semester and present the results near the end of this program.

The course covers aspects of physics including atoms, lasers, nuclear, and light in agriculture science. The course uses online lectures, while assessment contains lab-based experimental work and tutorials support learning.

This is an introductory course in Nuclear Astrophysics, a subject in its own right that often drives major scientific and technological advances in modern day research both in nuclear physics and astrophysics. The course builds upon (and adds a layer of complexity to) the existing Nuclear Physics course and provides an option for choice of specialized topics within Nuclear Physics (but also Astrophysics).

This course examines physical principles involved in biological systems at the microscopic and molecular scales. It covers diffusion, low Reynolds number dynamics, the physicist's view of biomolecular structure, models of molecular motors and membranes.

This course offers a study of fundamental physics concepts. Topics include: kinematics; dynamics; work and energy; motion of a system of particles; rigid objects; relativity; oscillatory motion; kinematics of a harmonic oscillator; universal gravitation; fluids; thermodynamics. Pre-requisites: high school-level math and physics.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to advanced and modern topics in Electrodynamics aimed at undergraduate and master's students. The course assumes familiarity with Newtonian mechanics, but the main concepts of special relativity and vector calculus are covered initially. 

The science of particle physics is to understand our world by studying particles that constitute the universe and their interactions. This course explains the basic concept of the particle physics as well as the Standard model and its related important experiments and results.

The course covers the following topics: 

• Elementary particles and their types and characteristics of interactions
• Properties of nuclei
• Elementary particle detectors and accelerators
• Collider experiments and nuclear structure
• Quark and strong interaction 
• Weak interaction and symmetry breaking
• Standard model and verifications
• Neutrino oscillations

This course teaches symmetries and group theory, and their applications to physical problems – from basic discrete groups, representation theory, and Lie groups and algebras.  This course also includes formal mathematical concepts.

Students learn about group theory and formal mathematics, giving them a firm framework for further study.

This course offers an introduction to the general laws of mechanics, thermodynamics, fields, waves, electromagnetism, and their application to the resolution of engineering problems. Pre-requisites: calculus and linear algebra.

This course examines the principles and applications of quantum mechanics, wave mechanics, the Schroedinger equation, expectation values, Hermitian operators, commuting observables, one-dimensional systems, harmonic oscillators, angular momentum, three-dimensional systems.