Course content and focus areas
Physics is the science that studies the structure, characteristics, conditions, and motion of matter and energy; the underlying interactions, forces, and dimensions; and the resulting dimensions. As such, physics is the material basis of all natural sciences and technical disciplines. Physics is an active science because it requires the implementation, utilization, and further development of its content and methods through experimentation and theory.
Physics is also a quantitative science because its aim is to quantitatively describe processes in nature and produce quantitative correlations between different phenomena and classes of phenomena. To achieve these goals, physics relies heavily on mathematical methods.
Due to the wide range of tasks, physics students must learn to quickly become acquainted with various special subjects in professional life, even if they were not part of their study program. This skill requires a profound understanding of and clear command over the broadest possible range of basic scientific information and methods, which is the main focus of the study program.
Students can only specialize in one subject and advance to the current limits of knowledge if they understand the fundamentals of the discipline. Students achieve this specialization to a certain extent in the bachelor's program by selecting optional compulsory modules from different fields of physics and by writing a bachelor's thesis, which introduces them to practical work in one of the department's research areas.
Students specialize at the beginning of the master's program, culminating in a master's thesis in which they independently research a recent scientific problem. For this reason, the master's thesis is a unique examination that is indispensable in the education of physicists.