Physics is the branch of science concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationships between them. Physics which is derived from the Greek word “physikos” in the broadest sense deals with both (macroscopic) and extremely small (submicroscopic) matter in nature with the concept of levels.
Sakarya University (SAU) Physics Department which began teaching in 1995, has study areas in Atomic and Molecular Physics, General Physics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear Physics and High Energy and Plasma Physics conducted by 25 faculty members and 9 research assistants which one of them with doctoral degree and one expert.
Successful undergraduate physics students are given the opportunity to receive the second bachelor's degree in the fields like mathematics or chemistry.
Since it was started teaching both undergraduate and master degree are given to students. After 2003, doctoral education in physics on the part of the above-mentioned main branches of science are also provided. Academic studies with domestic groups (Middle East Technical University, Gebze Institute of Technology), as well as abroad with groups (US nuclear physics accelerator center in the state of Virginia Jefferson Laboratory and Old Dominion University and University of Exeter) are still taking place.
Academic staff of the physics department in SAU is growing with each passing day and current number of students (undergraduate, master degree and doctorate) is reached nearly two hundred fifty people.
