Head of Program: Dr. Imad Barghouthi (CV)

Program:  Physics

Telephone: (+972+2)2799753, 2799234

Fax: (+972+2)2796960

Email: barghouthi@science.alquds.edu

Email: barghouthi@yahoo.com

Mailing address: AL-Quds University, P.O.Box 20002, Jerusalem.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY

 The department of physics provides education at the B.Sc. (Bachlore of Science) level to about 70 undergraduate students and at the M. Sc. (Master of science) level to about 20 graduate students.  We also provide service classes in general physics to a large number of non-majors.  The department has active research programs in solid state physics, radiation physics, laser physics, and space plasma physics.  Our programs are supported by 12 faculty positions (1 professor, 4 associate professors, 5 assistant professors, and 2 lecturers) and a staff of four.

 Many of our graduate students have teaching assistant ships which they fulfill by providing assistance in teaching laboratories and by giving discussion sessions to our large classes.

 All of the faculties are active in research in addition to their teaching and administrative duties.  Administratively the department of physics is one of seven departments forming the college of science.  The department is located in the main campus of Al-Quds University in Abu-Dies

 Mission Statement:

 The Physics Department strives to provide a curriculum that can give its majors a thorough grounding in the basic principles and methods of physics, with opportunities for independent research; offer a range of courses on topics in physics that are particularly appropriate for students of the medical field, engineering, science and technology; provide the physics training required by students majoring in other disciplines; encourage original research by faculty and students and the improvement of pedagogical methods; and provide a supportive work environment for students, staff, and faculty.

Academic staff

 1)      Abdelkarim Saleh  / Professor .     

      PhD: North Carolina University, USA (1984).

      Area of Specialty: Low Temperature Physics ( Solid State).                        

       Research Interest: Electrical and  magnetic properties of high temperature

       superconductors (HTCS), Electrical and thermal  properties of organic semiconductors .          

 2)  Mohammad Ibrahim Abu–Taha / Associate Professor.                        

     PhD: Keel university, UK (1987) .

     Specialist: Laser Physics.                                                   

     Research Interest: Laser photo acoustics, photo thermal deflection PVD, and IR

    Spectroscopy and its Application in agriculture, Industry and Medicine. Fiber Optics  and 

    its application   

3)  Imad. A.Barghouthi / Associate Professor .                                               

     PhD (1994): Utah state university, Logan, Utah, USA.

     Specialest: Theoretical Space Plasma Physics.                                            

     Research Interest: Modeling of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere, Monto Carlo Method, and Coulomb Collisions and Wave-Particle interactions in the Solar and Polar Winds.

4)  Saqer Darwish /Associate Professor.

     PhD: West Verginia university, USA. (1988).

     Specialest:

     Research Interest: Optical Proper magnetic material, Superconductivity in C₆₀ 

     compounds, Magnetic Viscosity and Quantum Tunneling  in Nanoscale Particles ,

     Exciton–Magnon and Two–exciton bands in Mn Antiferromagnets.

5)  Mohammad  Abu-Samreh/ Associate  Professor.                                       

     PhD: Arizona university. USA. (1990).

     Specialest:                                                       

     Research Interests: Nuclear physics, Solid State physics

6)  Elias. I.A. Elias / Associate Professor.                                                     

     PhD: Heidelberg  university , Germany,  (1985).

     Specialest: Thermodynamics.                                    

     Research Interests: Intermolecular Forces, Laser Spectroscopy, Degeneration of

     Chloroform in Water                                                                   

7)  Rushdi Kitaneh/ Assistant Professor .                                                   

     PhD: Carbov University, Russia, (1995).

     Specialest: Solid State Physics.                                        

 Research Interest: Charge Density and ESP distribution in Solids, Superconductivity and Semiconductors, Laser Physics and Applications.

8)  Musa Abu-Tair / Assistant Professor.                                                       

     PhD: Hebrow university, Jerusalem (2003).

     Specialest: Solid State Physics.                                              

     Research Interest: Near Field Microscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy.                                                                  

9)   Amin  .A. M. Leghrouz /  Assistant  Professor .                                        

      PhD: Rutgers university USA  (1989).

      Specialest: Radiation Physics.                                                       

      Research Interest: Radiation dose distribution Measurements, Environmental Radiation

      Dose Measurements, Solar Energy, Measurements of properties of some Superconductors.

10) Khawla  Qamhieh/ Assistant  Professor.                                                    

      PhD: Clarkson  university , USA ( 1990 ).

       Specialest: Soft Condensed Matter.                                                  

       Research Interest: Inter Particle Interaction in Colloidal System, Computer Simulation of

       Colloidal Suspensions.  Electrostatics in Colloidal Suspensions,  Structure and Dynamic

       of Charged  Colloid and Monte Carlo Methods, Science Education.

Department of physics                                        M. Sc. Study plan

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 The Department offers a Master of Science (M. Sc) degree upon the fulfillment of the total of (36 credit hours) as follows:

1.      Completion of the remedial courses recommended by the department.

2.      Completion of (30 credit hours) distributed as follows:

 a.       Obligatory courses (21 credit hours) as follows:

b.      Elective courses (9 Cr. Hr.) chosen from the following courses offered by the department of physics.

 3.       

a. Thesis track:

Presentation and a successful defending of a thesis (8031596, 6 credit hours)

b. Comprehensive exam track:

1. Completion of another two elective graduate courses chosen from the elective course list, the student must complete 36 credit hours of graduate courses (21 obligatory and 15 elective).

2. Successful passing of the comprehensive exam.  The exam includes graduate level questions in the following subjects phyx.531, phyx. 551, phyx. 554, phyx.553, phyx.541, and phyx. 571

(GUIDE)

MASTER OF SCIENCE

PHYSICS STUDY PLAN

First Year:

Second Year

COURSE DESCRIPTION

8031531 Methods of Mathematical physics (3 Credit Hours)

Homogeneous boundary value problem, special functions, inhomogeneous problem, Green's functions, integral equations, complex variable, calculus of variations.

8031541 Advanced Statistical Mechanics (3 Credit Hours)

The statistical basis of thermodynamics, elements of ensemble theory, canonical and grand canonical ensembles, formulations of quantum statistics, theory of simple gases, ideal Bose systems, ideal Fermi systems, statistical mechanics of interacting systems.

8031551 Advanced Classical Mechanics (3 Credit Hours)

Variational principles and lagranqe's equations, the two body central force problem, the kinematic of rigid body, rigid body equations of motion, small oscillations, Hamilton equations of motion, canonical transformation.

8031553 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory (3 Credit Hours)

Electrostatic, Laplace and Poisson's equations, Green's theorem, method of images, boundary value problem in Cartesian, spherical and cylindrical coordinate, spherical harmonics, bessel's functions, multiples and multiples expansions, electrostatics of macroscopic materials, dielectrics magnetostatics, vector potential, Maxwell's equations for time varying fields.

8031554 Advanced Quantum Mechanics (3 Credit Hours)

Review of principles of Quantum mechanics, wave mechanics and matrix mechanics, Approximate methods in Quantum mechanics including perturbation theory, scattering theory, identical particle and second quantization.

 8031560 Radiation Physics (3 Credit Hours)

Directly and indirectly ionizing radiation, cross sections and coefficients, beam attenuation, Kerma and dose relations Elastic scattering, Compton scattering, Klein–Nishina differential cross sections, photon nuclear reaction, scatter build up effects, Activation by photon.

 8031561 Laser Physics (3 Credit Hours)

Emission and absorption of light, spontaneous and stimulated emissions, pumping schemes, interaction of radiation with matter, radiation trapping, super radiance and super fluorescence, line broadening, gain saturation, optical resonators.  Continuos and transient laser gian saturation, optical resonators.  continuos and Transient Laser behavior, laser design and laser systems, Laser applications using photo-acoustic technique, laser applications in medicine Industry and agriculture.

 8031562 Molecular Spectroscopy (3 Credit Hours)

Basic elements of practical spectroscopy: Signal to noise ratios, Fourier transform spectroscopy, Microwave spectroscopy, diatomic and polyatomic molecules, IR spectroscopy, Rotation spectrum, breakdown of Born-Oppenheimer approximation, Raman spectroscopy, E.S.R. spectroscopy and Mossbaure spectroscopy.

 8031563 Advanced Nuclear Theory (3 Credit Hours)

Nucleon – Nucleon scattering, nuclear structure and nuclear volume, multipole moments, shell model, collective states, nuclear reactions, radioactivity, Alpha, Beta and Gamma decay.

8031571 Advanced Solid State Physics (3 Credit Hours)

Semiconductors, crystal defects and imperfections, magnetic properties of crystals, (diamagnetic and paramagnetic), dielectrics and Ferro-electrics, superconductivity and optical properties of solids.

 8031572 The Films Semiconductors (3 Credit Hours)

Techniques of film growth, Electronic structure of solids, Electronic conduction in solids, Radiation and impurity effects, semiconductors contacts and junctions, organic semiconductors, carrier injection in insulators.

8031583 Plasma Physics (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction, single-particle motions, plasmas as fluids, waves in plasma, diffusion and resistivity, equilibrium and stability, kinetic theory, non-linear effects.

8031584 Space Physics (3 Credit Hours)

Introduction, space environment, transport equations, collisions, neutral atmosphere, the terrestrial ionosphere at middle and low altitudes, the terrestrial ionosphere at high latitudes, planetary ionosphere.

8031591 Seminar (2 Credit Hours)

Students are expected to write a seminar after selecting the research topic, it should include the main problem for the thesis or research project and a complete thesis or research project outline.

8031592 Methods of Scientific Research (1 Credit Hours)

Choosing research topics, keeping records, using the library literature surveys, periodicals (indices and abstracts), computers surveys, Internet, Thesis writing: style, format organization, checking, printing and presentation, How to write and publish a scientific paper.

 801596 Thesis (6 Credit Hours)