Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 15<br />
Department of Physics and Astronomy<br />
Code: MKEP4<br />
Course Title: Environmental Physics<br />
Programme: <strong>Master</strong> of Science (Physics)<br />
Type: Lecture with exercises<br />
Credit Points: 8<br />
Workload: 240 h<br />
Teaching Hours:<br />
6/week<br />
Mode:<br />
WPM<br />
Term:<br />
WS/SS<br />
Module Parts:<br />
• Lecture on “Environmental Physics” (4 hours/week)<br />
• Exercise with homework (2 hours/week)<br />
Module Contents:<br />
• Molecular basis of transport processes<br />
Einstein's approach to Brownian, Fokker-Planck<br />
transport of scalar and vectorial quantities,<br />
macroscopic properties<br />
• Fluid dynamics<br />
conservation laws (mass, momentum, angular momentum, energy),<br />
dimensionless numbers, approximations,<br />
turbulence<br />
• Modelling concepts<br />
models, ODE- and PDE-formulations, finite automata,<br />
f<strong>und</strong>amentals of numerical solutions<br />
• F<strong>und</strong>amentals of reaction kinetics<br />
mass action law, reaction dynamics, chemical systems<br />
• System Earth and its workings<br />
compartments (atmosphere, oceans, land, cryosphere),<br />
fluxes and cycles (energy, water, carbon),<br />
the climate machine<br />
Objective: F<strong>und</strong>amental <strong>und</strong>erstanding of the physical processes and interactions of the<br />
Earth system<br />
Necessary/useful Knowledge: Content of PEP1-PEP3<br />
Recommended Literature: To be announced by lecturer<br />
Specialties: Exercises with homework<br />
Form of Testing and Examination: Usually a 2-3 hours written examination.<br />
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