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This program provides a positive experience of physics and encourages students to foster and maintain an intellectual curiosity in the discipline. We encourage/educate our students to become active, lifelong and autonomous learners with good prospects of employment in economic sectors requiring analytical skills or for further study of the subject. Our students will become well grounded in the fundamentals of physics with an appreciation of more specialised knowledge and the current frontiers of research. Our learning environment emphasises laboratory work at all stages, combining in-class, project and problem-solving work including data analysis and programming. Our students will be imbued with professional values including scientific integrity and ethical behaviour, and the ability to communicate complex information effectively. Assessment is based on individual work, group work, work in the laboratory, project work including student presentation and written report.
Students take 5 core modules. Overall, 50 programme credits must be completed in Stage 3. Students may select 10 credits from elective modules or alternatively, additional modules can be selected from the BSc programme.
Students take 4 core modules (35 credits) and five option modules (25 credits).
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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PHYC30300 | Advanced Laboratory I | 2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr) | 20 |
PHYC30020 | Classical Mechanics and Relativity | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30030 | Quantum Mechanics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30070 | Electromagnetism | Spring | 5 |
PHYC30080 | Optics & Lasers | Spring | 5 |
PHYC20100 | Thermo & Stat Physics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30050 | Condensed Matter Physics | Autumn | 5 |
ACM20030 | Computational Science | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30090 | Nuclear Physics | Spring | 5 |
ACM30220 | Partial Differential Equations | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30100 | Stellar Astrophysics & Astronomical Techniques | Autumn | 5 |
STAT20100 | Inferential Statistics | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40960 | Physics Project | 2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr) | 10 |
PHYC40970 | Advanced Laboratory II (15) | 2 Trimester duration (Aut-Spr) | 15 |
PHYC40020 | Applied Quantum Mechanics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC40080 | High Energy Particle Physics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30050 | Condensed Matter Physics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30090 | Nuclear Physics | Spring | 5 |
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN3OF: Students should select a minimum of 3 Option modules from the list below. Students who are required to register to the Programme Core PHYC30050 or PHYC30090 should only register to 4 modules from this list. Students who are required to register to both PHYC30050 and PHYC30090 should select 3 modules from this list. Students who take ACM41040 must also take ACM40750. |
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ACM40750 | Gen Relativity & Black Holes | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC30100 | Stellar Astrophysics & Astronomical Techniques | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC40120 | General Relativity & Cosmology | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC40470 | Computational Biophysics and Nanoscale Simulations | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC40930 | Ultrafast Soft X-ray Photonics | Autumn | 5 |
PHYC41070 | Techniques in Biophysics | Autumn | 5 |
ACM30200 | Mathematical Fluid Dynamics I | Spring | 5 |
ACM41040 | GR and Gravitational Waves | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40030 | Galaxies, Observational Cosmology & the Interstellar Medium | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40110 | Medical Physics (Selected Topics) | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40200 | Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40210 | Applied Optics | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40360 | Theoretical Astrophysics | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40650 | Advanced Statistical Physics | Spring | 5 |
PHYC40800 | Quantum Field Theory | Spring | 5 |
Stage 4 Options - B)MIN3OF: Students should select a minimum of 3 Option modules from the list below. Students who are required to register to the Programme Core PHYC30050 or PHYC30090 should only register to 4 modules from this list. Students who are required to register to both PHYC30050 and PHYC30090 should select 3 modules from this list. Students who take ACM41040 must also take ACM40750. |
Award | GPA | ||||
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Programme | Module Weightings | Rule Description | Description | ||
BHSCI001 | Stage 4 - 70.00% Stage 3 - 30.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |