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HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

The Department was established in 1983 within the School of Science and Technology Education when the University was founded. The Department was then developing an Industrial Physics Programme. Following the merger of the University to the University of Maiduguri in October, 1984 the Department commenced teaching a pure Physics Programme. Even after the demerger of the University in 1988 the Department still essentially runs a Pure Physics Programme although a Physics/Education Programme was commenced in the 1991/92 Session.

Currently, the Department runs B. Tech. Physics Programme. The Programmes in Physics with Electronics, Physics with Computer Science and Energy Physics have recently been approved and will commence as from First Semester of 2002/2003 Academic Session.

Despite the inadequacy of experienced senior physicists up to 1999, the Department maintained an acceptable level of academic excellence as attested to by the fact that its gradaunds are currently employed as academic staff in several Universities, many Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, industries, banks and of course Secondary Schools. The Department had contributed greatly to the manpower needs particularly of the North-Eastern part of Nigeria. The staff strength has grown from two (2) in 1983 to fourteen (14) at the moment. One (1) of these staff is currently on study leave for M. Sc Degree.

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It is sufficiently well known that Pure Science is the bedrock of all technologies whether copied, adapted or developed. It is also a fact that an understanding of Physics is central to the understanding of all Physical phenomena and particularly for the most effective ways of analyzing them and adapting them to ultimately improve the quality of human life and maintaining the delicate balance of the earths’ ecosystem. The Engineer (essentially an applied physicist), the Doctor, the agro-climatologist, the soil scientist, genetic engineer, the town-planner, surveyor etc use various equipment whose basic principles are firmly rooted in Physics. Recent rapid advances in various important fields (fibre optics, lasers, opto-electronics, robotics, high temperature superconductivity, biophysics, information systems technology, to name but a few) clearly require a sound knowledge of basic physics. A strong of physics department is therefore a most essential requirement of a University of Technology. Apart from providing most students of this university a sound intellectual background in Physics for their study of the various branches of Science and Technology our training objectives include:

i) Producing responsible physics graduates with a sound knowledge of the fundamental principles of physics and who can therefore confidently move on to many other branches of science and technology, manufacturing and service industries, accounting, etc, tertiary institutions etc;
ii) Producing Physics/Education Graduates to help reduce the acute shortage of Physics teachers in the immediate locality of the University and elsewhere;
iii) Identifying, advising and proffering solutions to local problems that are amenable to systematic scientific investigations (i.e research);
iv) Enhancing awareness of the importance of Physics (and Science in general) in improving the welfare of the people in the catchments areas of the University;

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Our current Programmes in Physics and Physics Education are designed to achieve the first two objectives above. Although some of our final year student projects are directed towards achieving the third objectives, more progress can only be made when the Applied Physics and Postgraduate Programme finally take off. The approved Postgraduate Programmes are: Postgraduate Diploma in Physics (PGDP), M.Sc Degree in Theoretical Physics and Geophysics, M.Tech Degrees in Solid State Physics, Solid State Physics with Electronics, and Energy Physics. All these will commence in October, 2002. The Department of Physics plans to begin a public enlightenment on the important role of Physics through TV talks, seminars, career advising in Secondary Schools (Particularly to disabuse students’ minds off the fallacy that Physics is difficult).

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Admission requirements for the Department of Physics are as stated in the University Matriculation Examination (U.M.E) and the general requirements for admission into Degree Programmes of the Federal University of Technology, Yola.

DEGREE AWARDED: B. Tech. Physics

DURATION OF THE STUDY: 5 Years

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STAFF

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Teaching and Research Facilities Available in the Department

The department has research laboratories for various fields of Physics.

POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
The following Postgraduates Programmes are to commence in the 2002/2003 session.

(i) M. Sc. Degree in (a) Theoretical Physics
(b) Solid State Physics
(c) Geophysics

(ii) M. Tech. Degree in (a) Solid State Physics (General)
(b) Solid State physics with Electronics
(c) Energy Physics

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COURSE OUTLINE

100 LEVEL: FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER

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200 LEVEL: FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER

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300 LEVEL: FIRST SEMESTER

SECOND SEMESTER