Orders of magnitude, scaling laws and perturbation methods

Diploma(s)

Bachelor

Place

ENS-PSL

Spring semester

Level Bachelor 6 ECTS - French

Cours en option pour le parcours de L3

Instructor(s) Stephan FAUVE ( ENS-PSL ) Martin CAELEN ( ENS-PSL )

Contact - Education office

Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr

The first part of the course is intended to familiarize students with qualitative reasoning and the evaluation of orders of magnitude in physics. The second part concerns scaling laws and some perturbative calculation techniques.

Programme

Prerequisite

Elementary physics (mechanics, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics) and elementary mathematics

Evaluation

Written exam