Course Descriptions

Charge and matter, electric field and Gauss' law, electric potential, capacitors, DC circuits, magnetic field, Ampere's law, Faraday's law, inductance, magnetic properties of matter, Maxwell's equations.

Experiments on: capacitors; DC circuits; magnetic field; Ampere's law; Faraday's law; inductance; magnetic properties of matter.

Objects and classes, constructors, static variables, constants and methods, visibility modifiers, passing objects and object arrays to methods, immutability, variable scopes, class abstraction and encapsulation, super and subclass concepts, inheritance, polymorphism, overriding, overloading, abstract classes, object-oriented design.

This course aims to discuss political, social, cultural and economic transformations in the 19th century in their relation with the formation of the Republican Turkey and focuses on the modernization process in the early republican period until 1945.

Matrices, matrix addition, matrix and scalar multiplication, algebraic properties of matrix operations, special types of matrices, solving linear systems, elementary row and column operations, echelon form of a matrix, Gauss and Gauss-Jordan method, elementary matrices and finding the inverse of a matrix by using elementary operations, real vector spaces, definition, subspaces, span and linear independence, basis and dimensions, homogeneous systems, rank of a matrix, linear spaces with inner product, definition of the inner product, Gram-Schmidt process, orthogonal complements, linear transformation and their matrix representations, kernel and range of a linear transformation, matrix of a linear transformation, determinants, definition and properties of determinants, cofactor expansion, finding inverses by using cofactors, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, characteristic polynomial and equation of a matrix, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of symmetric matrices.

Basic topics in probability, probability axioms, sample space, conditional probability, counting methods, discrete random variables, probability mass function, families of discrete random variables, expectations, function of a random variable, variance and standard deviation, continuous random variables, distribution function, probability density function, expected values, families of continuous random variables, the normal distribution, pairs of random variables, joint distribution function, marginals, joint probability function, functions of two random variables, variance, covariance and correlation concepts.

Explanation of communication, explanation of language and its relationship with the thinking proces, culture, society and literature; written and oral communication; main characterisrics of the Turkish language; phrases and types of narration; expressional failure.

Political, social and cultural development of Turkey since WWII. Transition to multi-party system, social transformation in 1960s and 1970s, as well as the demographical change, industrialization and new social movements. The coup d'état of 1980 and its aftermath, political and social polarization in 2000s.