The following main topics are available in the field of optics:

• Concave mirrors and parabolic mirrors
• Image construction
• real and virtual images
• Imaging and imaging equations
• Speed of light
• law of refraction
• chromatic dispersion and prisms
• total internal reflection
• Mie and Rayleigh scattering
• Image construction: eye and microscope
• Imaging errors
• Polarisation and birefringence
• Light as a wave, wave equation
• Phase shift and reflection
• Huygens elementary waves, wave fronts
• Interference, occurrence in nature and technology
• Interferometer
• Single and double slit and grating
• Spectrometer and resolving power

The following main topics are covered in the area of atomic and molecular physics:

• Hydrogen spectra
• Bohr's atomic model
• Absorption and emission of light
• Blackbody radiation and Planck's radiation formula
• Photoelectric effect
• Pulse and spin of photons
• Compton effect
• Electron diffraction
• Particle interference
• Wave functions, wave packets and probability density
• Schrödinger equation
• Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• Light and matter wave packets
• Phase and group velocity
• Unbound states (free particle)
• Potentials: step, tunnel barrier, box, harmonic and Coulomb potentials
• Schrödinger equation for hydrogen
• Radial and spherical surface functions
• Angular momentum of the electron and Zeeman effect
• Spin of the electron and Stern-Gerlach experiment
• Fine structure and hyperfine structure splitting
• Pauli principle, fermions and bosons
• Total angular momentum and term scheme
• Helium: singlet and triplet
• Hund's rules
• Periodic table of the elements
• Atomic nucleus: size and binding energy
• Nuclide map and radioactive decays
• Approximation methods for molecules: LCAO and Heitler-London
• Born-Oppenheimer approximation
• Molecular orbitals and hybridisation
• Bond types
• Molecular rotation and vibration, Franck-Condon principle
• Green Flourescence Protein (GFP)

Finally, a compact overview of the following topics in solid state physics is given:

• Bonds in solids
• Reciprocal space (k-space)
• Density of states in solids
• Band structures: metals, semiconductors and insulators
• Applications for semiconductors
• Bravais lattice and crystal structures, network planes and Miller indices
• Structure determination for crystals
• Lattice vibrations