Course Description - Bachelor of Physics

  • 15200101: Palestinian Issue [3 Credit Hours]

    The course deals with the events of the Palestinian issue through the most important ages from the Canaanites until the year 2021. It focuses on the Islamic conquest of Palestine in the year 15 AH 636 AD, the Crusader torch from 1099 to the liberation of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi of Palestine in 1187, and it talks about the Ottomans in Palestine from 1516 to 1917. The course is concerned with the Palestinian issue during the British occupation in 1917, until the Nakba in 1948, and the establishment of the occupation state .It deals with the Palestinian resistance and revolutions during 100 years, and Arab-Israeli wars from 1948 to 2021.The course talks about Palestinian Liberation Organization, Palestinian resistance movements and parties, Palestinian Authority and the peace negotiations projects since the 1978 Camp David Accords until 2021.The course talks about attempts to Judaism Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the Palestinian setback in 1967 until 2021, and the issue of Palestinian refugees since 1948. It also anticipates the future of the Palestinian issue.


  • 15200102: Arabic Language [3 Credit Hours]

    The course aims to develop the students’ cognitive abilities and communication skills in Arabic language by introducing Arabic dictionaries, spelling and grammatical errors, and familiarizing them with ancient and modern Arabic literary models including models from the Holy Qur’an.


  • 15200107: Islamic Studies [3 Credit Hours]


  • 13020004: Russian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020014: Political Science [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020036: Software Applications [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15010203: Ordinary Differential Equations (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    Solutions of differential equations (first order, second order, and higher orders) with applications to mechanics and physics, series solutions, Laplace transform method.


  • 15020211: Mathematical Physics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Vector Analysis, Curvilinear coordinates (Cartesian, Cylindrical, Spherical, and Coordinates Transformations), Determinants And matrices, Complex Numbers and separation of variables.


  • 15020261: Material Science [3 Credit Hours]

    Introduction to materials, microscopic study, atomic, molecular and crystal structure, imperfections in solids, mechanical properties , modulie of elasticity , polymers , electrical properties and electrical conduction , magnetic properties , magnetic materials and hysteresis.


  • 15020462: Solid State Physics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Band theory of solids, semiconductors, dielectric and ferroelectric properties, magnetic properties of solids, optical phenomena in solids, materials and superconductivity.


  • 15200106: ُEnglish (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    English 1 is a theoretical, 3-credit hour university requisite, and a general English Course which is designed to serve all BA and BSc Students of (PTUK) in all faculties. This course aims at developing students’ repertoire of the English language main skills as well as sub-skills through providing them with broad varieties of language patterns, grammatical and structural rules, and vocabulary items that can enable them to communicate meaningfully within ordinary and real-life contexts and situations. This course is also oriented towards equipping students with the skills they need to comprehend texts, contexts, and situations that are related to ordinary and real-life topics. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a wide and various aural inputs in order to broaden and deepen their skills in listening, judgment, and critical thinking. Students of this course are expected to acquire and practice the skills they need to maximize their capabilities to express opinions about ordinary and real life topics both orally and in a written format, which will help in widening the students’ academic horizon.


  • 15200112: English 2 [3 Credit Hours]

    This course is designed to serve PTUK students in the faculties of Science and Engineering as well as the students of Educational Technology (ET); it offers a broad overview of the English language learning skills in reading, writing, speaking that will enable them to communicate meaningfully in scientific contexts and situations. It also offers a broad variety of scientific language grammatical patterns and vocabulary items that are needed to comprehend scientific contexts and trends. Throughout this course, students will be exposed to a variety of scientific topics, aural input in order to broaden and deepen their critical thinking skills and to help them express opinions about modern scientific topics and problems.


  • 13020003: German Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020010: Islamic Econmic System [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020029: My Career II [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020035: Professional Communication Skills [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15030101: Biology 1 [3 Credit Hours]

    Describe the characteristic, structure and function of living cells include cell metabolism, photosynthesis, genetic and cell division and gene expression


  • 15020102: General Physics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Charge and matter, electric field, gauss's law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, electromotive force and circuits, the magnetic field, ampere's law, faraday's law of induction.


  • 15020231: Applications of Computer in Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Introductory computational physics and computer algebra, Integration and differentiation, Interpolation and extrapolation, Ordinary differential equations, Partial differential equations, Matrix methods, Monte Carlo method.


  • 15020302: Classical Mechanics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Classical Mechanics Kinematics of system of particles and collision , dynamics of rigid bodies, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, small oscillations, gravitation and central forces


  • 15020341: Electromagnetic Theory I [3 Credit Hours]

    Electrostatics: Electrostatic field, Electrostatic potential, Work and energy in electrostatics, Conductors. Electrostatic Potentials: Laplaces’s equation, The Method of images, Separation of Variables, Multipole expansion. Electrostatic fields in matter; Magneto statics, Magneto static fields in matter.


  • 15020351: Quantum Mechanics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Wave packets and the uncertainty relations, Schrodinger equation, Eigen functions and eigenvalues, potentials in one-dimension, structure of wave mechanics, and operator methods in Q.M., Schrodinger equation, in three dimensions, angular momentum, and ideal hydrogen atom.


  • 15020481: Research Project [3 Credit Hours]

    The student will conduct a scientific research in a certain topic in physics under the supervision of one of the physics staff and under the agreement of the department , at the end of semester the student will make a presentation to a committee from the academic staff of the department


  • 15020421: Geometrical Optics [3 Credit Hours]

    The nature of light, the speed of light, refraction index, concept of the ray, reflection and refraction at plane surfaces, total internal reflection, Huygens' principle, Fermat’s principle, prisms and dispersion. Plane and spherical mirrors, image formation. Lenses: convex and concave mirrors, thin lenses, thick lenses and lens aberrations. Optical instruments: camera, eye, simple magnifier, compound microscope, telescope. Fiber optics and communications.


  • 13020001: Hebrew Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020002: French Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020006: Italian Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020011: Contemporary Problems [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15060101: Principles of Statistics [3 Credit Hours]

    Describing statistical data by tables, graphs and numerical measures, Chebychev’s inequality and the empirical rule, counting methods, combinations, permutations, elements of probability and random variables, the binomial, the Poisson, and the normal distributions, sampling distributions, elements of testing hypotheses, statistical inference about one and two populations parameters.


  • 15020101: General Physics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Measurement and system of units, vectors, motion in one and two dimensions, particle dynamics and Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, dynamics of system of particles, center of mass, conservation of linear momentum, collisions, impulse, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, conservation of angular momentum.


  • 15030105: Biology Lab 1 [1 Credit Hours]

    Conducting experiments like how to use the microscope. studying different type of cells (prokaryote and eukaryote) structure and function including cell diffusion, organic compounds and enzymes


  • 15040201: Computer Programming [3 Credit Hours]

    programming language and to provide students with the ability to write simple correct programs. Topics to be covered include: I/O, data types, function definition, visibility and storage classes, parameter passing, loops, arrays, pointers, strings, files, introducing classes and objects, constructors and destructors, function prototypes, private and public access, and class implementation. programming language and to provide students with the ability to write simple correct programs. Topics to be covered include: I/O, data types, function definition, visibility and storage classes, parameter passing, loops, arrays, pointers, strings, files, introducing classes and objects, constructors and destructors, function prototypes, private and public access, and class implementation. programming language and to provide students with the ability to write simple correct programs. Topics to be covered include: I/O, data types, function definition, visibility and storage classes, parameter passing, loops, arrays, pointers, strings, files, introducing classes and objects, constructors and destructors, function prototypes, private and public access, and class implementation.


  • 15010201: Calculus (3) [3 Credit Hours]

    polar coordinates and parametric equations: polar coordinates, graphs in polar coordinates , conics in polar coordinates, area in Polar coordinates; parametric equations; tangent lines and arc length in parametric curves and polar coordinates. Three dimensional space and vectors rectangular coordinates in 3-space; spheres, cylindrical surfaces; quadric surfaces; vectors: dot product, projections, cross product, parametric equations of lines. planes in 3-spaces; vector -valued functions: calculus of vector valued functions, change of parameters, arc length, unit tangent and normal vectors, curvature, functions of two or more variable: domain, limits, and continuity; partial derivatives; differentiability; total differentials; the chain rule; the gradient; directional derivatives; tangent planes; normal lines; maxima and minima of functions of two variables; Lagrange multipliers; multiple integrals: double integral, double integrals in polar coordinates; triple integrals; triple integrals in cylindrical and spherical coordinates; change of variables in multiple integrals; Jacobian .


  • 15200099: Pre-English [3 Credit Hours]

    Remedial English: The course is a compulsory service course offered for first year students. It is a prerequisite for E1 and it focuses mainly on the language learning skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course is intended to equip the students with basic skills necessary for successful communication in both oral and written forms of the language. In addition to grammar and how to use vocabulary in a meaningful context.


  • 13020005: Turkish Language [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020009: Islam and Contemporary Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020012: Islamic Civilization [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020019: Democracy and Elections [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020021: History of Science Among the Arabs [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020023: Astronomy [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020025: Agriculture in Palestine [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020031: Contemporary Global Issues [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020032: Economy in the Third World [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15050105: Practical General Chemistry (1) [1 Credit Hours]

    Laboratory safety and basic laboratory techniques, empirical formula of a compound, limiting reactant, molecular weight of a volatile liquid, acid base titration; oxidation reduction titration, water of hydration, percentage composition, gas properties.


  • 15020224: Waves and Light [3 Credit Hours]

    Nature of light, geometrical optics, optical instrumentation, wave equation, superposition of waves: traveling, longitudinal waves. Electromagnetic oscillations and its comparison with mechanical oscillations. Electromagnetic waves: transverse and longitudinal nature of electromagnetic waves. Light: light as electromagnetic wave, interference, diffraction, polarization.


  • 15020251: Modern Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Theory of special relativity, dual property of light and particles, atomic structure, Schr?dinger equation and some applications, ideal hydrogen atom. In addition to the basic concepts about topics in modern physics in the fields of: many electron atoms, molecular structure, nuclear Physics and elementary particles.


  • 15020473: Laser Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Introduction, theory of three and four levels lasers. Types of laser: solid state lasers, gas laser, diode lasers. Cavities of laser, stability of laser cavity using matrix optics. Optics of Gaussian beam, theory of pulsed lasers for three and four levels lasers. Selection of wavelength of laser using dispersion elements (Prisms, Fabre-Perot, birefringence plates). Non-linear optics and harmonic generation. Application of lasers.


  • 15020472: Atomic and Molecular Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Hydrogen atom and angular momentum theory, complex atoms and effects of spin, the Wigner-Eckart theorem, selection rules, external fields, molecular spectra and Hund's coupling cases, effects of spin and Wigner-Witmer correlation rules.


  • 13010006: Computer Skills and Applications [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020018: The Palestinian Captive Movement [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020022: Library and Research Methods [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020026: Leadership and Creativity [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020034: Introduction to Automotive Engineering [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15050101: General Chemistry (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    This is the first of two general chemistry courses. It introduces the basic principles of chemistry and shows students how chemists describe matter. It revolves around bonding, the most central concept in chemistry. Material covered includes introduction to chemical calculations, stoichiometry and simple reactions, gases, thermochemistry, atomic structure, the periodic table, types of bonding, liquids and solids.


  • 15020327: Physics Lab. (2) [2 Credit Hours]

    This laboratory contains a group of experiments, depending on theoretical materials in Modern Physics, waves and optics such as: Frank – Hertz experiment, black body radiation, x-ray diffraction and characterization, photoelectric effect, Michelson interferometer, microwave experiments, atomic spectra, photoconductivity, Boltzmann’s constant measurement, half life time.


  • 15020356: Advanced Physics Lab. [2 Credit Hours]

    This laboratory contains a group of experiments, depending on theoretical materials in nuclear, atomic and solid state physics such as: Zeeman effect, nuclear magnetic resonance, Geiger–Muller tube, e/m, electron Spin resonance, x-ray spectroscopy, Brag law, Gama- spectroscopy alpha-particles spectroscopy, beta-particles spectroscopy. Optical activity, measurement of index of refraction.


  • 15020411: Mathematical Physics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Calculus of Variations, Coordinate Transformations; Tensor Analysis, Gamma, Beta, and Error Functions; Asymptotic Series; Stirling’s Formula; Elliptic Integrals and Functions. Integral Transforms, Series solutions of Differential Equations, Legendre Polynomials; Bessel Functions; Sets of Orthogonal Functions, Partial Differential Equations, Functions of A Complex Variable.


  • 15020474: Elementary Particle Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Fundamental principles. Particles detection: Scintillation detectors, bulbils chamber. Production of elementary particles: Accelerators, Cosmic rays, Strong reaction. Conservation laws and parity principle. Electromagnetic interactions. Menus, pair production. Weak interactions. Neutrinos. Quark model.


  • 15020401: Statistical Mechanics [3 Credit Hours]

    Probabilities and distribution ,Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics and its applications, Bose-Einstein statistics, statistical concepts of temperature and entropy, thermodynamics of gases, application of statistical thermodynamics, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Bose- Einstein statistics and some applications


  • 13010007: Communication Skills [1 Credit Hours]


  • 13020013: History of Jerusalem [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020016: Law in Our Lives [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020017: E-government Legal Framework [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020027: Health Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020030: Individual and Society [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020033: Child Rearing and Family Upbringing [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15020223: General Physics III [3 Credit Hours]

    Universal gravitation: law of universal gravitation, gravitational field and potential energy, satellites. Fluid mechanics: pressure, Archimedes’ principle, Bernoulli’s equation, applications, oscillatory motion, wave motion, sound waves, superposition and Standing waves .Thermodynamics: temperature and its measurements, thermal expansion, thermal and internal energies, specific heat, first law of thermodynamic, ideal gas, heat and second law of thermodynamics.


  • 15020245: Electronics Lab. [1 Credit Hours]

    This laboratory consists of group of experiments, depending on theoretical materials in Electronics 1. Students perform Experiments on semi-conductors, transistors, diodes, voltage regulators and filters, rectifiers, amplifiers, timers, and wave form generators


  • 15020301: Classical Mechanics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Basic concepts : (about :vectors, coordinate systems), Newtonian mechanics, motion in one, two and three dimensions, oscillations ( simple, forced, damped), inertial and non-inertial reference


  • 15020471: Nuclear Physics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Nuclear Properties, nuclear force, nuclear models :(shell model, liquid drop model and the unified model) , nuclear radioactivity, alpha-decay, beta-decay, gamma-decay, nuclear reactions (fission and fusion), applications. nuclear deformation


  • 15020371: Radiation Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Natural and artificial radio activity, Radiation sources . Interactions of radiation with matter: ?, ? particles , neutrons and ? radiation. Radiation dosimetry. Doses limits and Biological effects of the ionizing radiation , Radiation and particle detections, Radiation protection.


  • 15020476: Introduction to Biomedical Physics [3 Credit Hours]

    Biomechanics. Bio fluid mechanics. sound and hearing. light and vision. Heat and temperature, electricity and magnetism in the body. Bio magnetism. The use of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in diagnosis and therapy. Radiation safety.


  • 15200104: Social Services [1 Credit Hours]

    Students perform voluntary work such as donating blood, repairing homes, tourist trails, or holding educational workshops at the university, and the student is committed to training or working for 40 hours.


  • 13020008: Physical Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15010101: Calculus (1) [3 Credit Hours]

    Functions: domain, operations on functions, graphs of functions; trigonometric functions; limits: meaning of a limit, computational techniques, limits at infinity, infinite limits ;continuity; limits and continuity of trigonometric functions; the derivative: techniques of differentiation, derivatives of trigonometric functions; the chain rule; implicit differentiation; differentials; Roll’s Theorem; the mean value theorem; the extended mean value theorem; L’Hopital’s rule; increasing and decreasing functions; concavity; maximum and minimum values of a function; graphs of functions including rational functions (asymptotes) and functions with vertical tangents (cusps);


  • 15010411: Fundamentals of Scientific Research [2 Credit Hours]

    Science and its objectives, concepts and fields of scientific research, the library and its role in research and knowledge, scientific research methods (historical, descriptive, procedural, experimental), problem, plan, research hypotheses, samples, questionnaire, collection methods.


  • 15010102: Calculus (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    antiderivatives; the indefinite integral; the definite integral; the fundamental theorem of calculus ; the area under a curve; the area between two curves.Techniques of integration: integration by substitution; integration by parts, integrating powers of trigonometric functions, trigonometric substitutions, integrating rational functions, partial fractions, rationalization, miscellaneous substitution; improper integrals; application of definite integral: volumes, length of a plane curve, area of a surface of revolution infinite series: sequences, infinite series, convergence tests, absolute convergence, conditional convergence; alternating series; power series: Taylor and Maclurine series, differentiation and integration of power series:


  • 15020106: Lab. For General Physics II [1 Credit Hours]

    Experiments on Galvanometer and its uses, Ohm's law, electric field, electric potential , capacitor, Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer, electromotive force, Kirchoff''s laws.


  • 15020201: Thermodynamics [3 Credit Hours]

    This laboratory consists of group of experiments, depending on theoretical materials in Electronics 1. Students perform Experiments on semi-conductors, transistors, diodes, voltage regulators and filters, rectifiers, amplifiers, timers, and wave form generators


  • 13020007: English language III [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020015: International Relations [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020020: Anti-Corruption [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020024: Environmental Culture [2 Credit Hours]


  • 13020028: My Career I [2 Credit Hours]


  • 15020105: Lab. For General Physics I [1 Credit Hours]

    Experiments on balance of forces, motion, free fall and motion of projectiles, force and motion, Newton's laws, friction, rotational motion, work, the principle of conservation of energy, the principle of conservation of linear momentum, the moment of inertia of bodies.


  • 15020227: Physics Lab. (1) [1 Credit Hours]

    To perform experiments in optics and waves :geometrical optics to deal with lenses, prism spectrometer and to deal with wave optics: diffraction grating , Newton’s rings ,to measure speed of sound using standing waves and to measure speed of light to study Doppler effect in sound waves and experiments in magnetic field such as to determine the ratio of the charge of the electron to its mass e/m by using magnetic field and electric field and to determine the magnetic dipole moment of a bar magnet and the earth magnetic field To investigate thermoelectric effect and thermocouples


  • 15020241: Electronics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Semiconductors: D.C Circuits, A.C circuits, diode theory, diode circuits and special purpose diodes. Transistors: bipolar transistors, transistor fundamentals and transistor biasing, field effect transistors, voltage amplifiers, power amplifiers. Operational amplifiers: theory, circuits and applications, differentiated and integrated circuits.


  • 15020342: Electromagnetic Theory II [3 Credit Hours]

    Electrodynamics: Electromotive force, Faraday’s law, Maxwell’s equations, potential formulations, Energy and momentum. Electromagnetic Waves: the wave equation, Electromagnetic waves in conductors and nonconductors; dispersion; wave guides, radiations.


  • 15020352: Quantum mechanics II [3 Credit Hours]

    Review of ideal hydrogen atom, Identical Particles including Free electron model, and Band structure, Time-independent approximation method, including fine structure, and Zeeman Effect, Variational Principle, and WKB Approximation method, and scattering theory.


  • 15020461: Solid State Physics I [3 Credit Hours]

    Crystal structure and binding, diffraction in crystals, reciprocal lattice and vibrations, photons and specific heat, free electron model.


  • 15020475: Nuclear Physics II [3 Credit Hours]

    The shell model, nuclear deformation and the unified model, electromagnetic interaction, the weak interaction, the strong interaction.


  • 15050102: General Chemistry (2) [3 Credit Hours]

    This is the second of two general chemistry courses. It builds upon the foundation of chemical bonding concepts laid out in the first course, and applies these to important topics in chemistry. Material covered includes solutions, chemical kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry.


  • 15020477: Introduction to nanoscience [3 Credit Hours]

    This course aims to introduce a number of topics in nanoscience and technology, with a focus on the effect of size on the mechanical, optical, thermal and electrical properties of materials. The course also introduces several recent technologies developed for the production and characterization of nanostructures and nanodevices. This course includes laboratory visits.