Tutorials

Start of tutorials: 25.04.2023

Registration

Please, register to participate in the tutorial.

Link to online registration: Here

(accessible from domain *.uni-heidelberg.de or via VPN connection).

Tutor: Lukas Gries

Time: Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30 h 

Place: INF 227 / SR 1.403/1.404

Tutorial 1:

Exercise Sheet 1

(Scientific publication mentioned in the sheet: Y. Ikezoe et al. “Making water levitate.” Nature 393, 749 (1998))

Aim of the tutorial:

• Understanding the effect of the shape of a magnetic object on its magnetisation.
• Reminding yourselfs of Hund´s rules and beeing able to apply them to magnetic ions.
• Comparing theoretical predictions with experimentally measured data.
• Extracting information from scientific publications and understanding plotted data.
• Making a raspberry levitate =).

Tutorial 2:

Exercise sheet 2

Aim of the tutorial:

• Taking a closer look at para- and diamagnetism.
• Comparing different types of paramagnetism and their temperature dependencies.
• Getting an idea for orders of magnitude in magnetism.

Tutorial 3:

Exercise sheet 3

Aim of the tutorial:

• Getting a basic understanding of group theory and learning the necessary definitions.
• Beeing able to read and build a character table.
• Learning to detect if representations are irreducable.

Tutorial 4:

Exercise sheet 4

Aim of the tutorial:

• Applying the learned knowledge on group theory.
• Understanding the connection between orbitals and irreduciable representations.
• Looking at the Jahn-Teller effect and the consequences to symmetries.
• Getting a deeper understanding of character tables.