Programa de Física Contemporanea II

El curso consiste en el estudio crítico de trabajos de divulgación para graduados en física, como los que son habituales en Physics Today. Los trabajos utilizados en 2008 son:

El trabajo del físico profesional

Ethics and the Welfare of the Physics Profession (Physics Today, November 2004)

Smolin. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Capítulos 16-20.

Geofísica

Modeling the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake reveals a complex, nonuniform rupture (Physics Today, June 2005)

What’s Making Earth Hum? (Physics Today, March 2005)

The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change (Physics Today, August 2003)
Stone Cold: Patterned Ground in Alpine and Arctic Regions (Physics Today, April 2003)

Tecnología

The Hydrogen Economy (Physics Today — December 2004)

Bio-física

Optical trap resolves thestepwise transfer of genetic information from DNA to RNA Physics Today, January 2006)

Thermodynamics Explains the Symmetry of Spherical Viruses (Physics Today, December 2004)

Termodinámica y fenomenología

The Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Small Systems (Physics Today, July 2005)

New Experiments Set the Scale for the Onset of Turbulence in Pipe Flow (Physics Today, February 2004)

The Unsual Thermodynamics of Microscopic Systems (Physics Today, September 2002)

Materia a nivel atómico

Electrons in atomically thin carbon sheets behave like massless particles (Physics Today, January 2006)

Two Groups Observe the Spin Hall Effect in Semiconductors (Physics Today, February 2005)

Researchers Achieve Lasing From a Single Trapped Atom (Physics Today, January 204)

Nuclear

Four Experiments Give Evidence of an Exotic Baryon With Five Quarks (Physics Today, September 2003)

Temas seleccionados de Física de Altas energías en relación a la puesta en marcha del Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Smolin. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next. Capítulos 1 y 13.