PHYC40980

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students should have gained a good understanding of the nature, production and behavior of indirectly ionising radiations (photon and neutrons) and directly ionising radiation (electrons, heavy charged particles), and their interactions with matter. Students should have also become familiar with the quantities and units used for describing radiation fields and the interation of ionizing radiation with matter.

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

The module will combine lectures with continuous assessment in the form of problem-based assignments. The module will also be assessed with a mid-term exam an end-of term exam.

Students may use generative AI tools for limited support in this module. Students may use AI for planning and researching their work, assisting with their presentations, refining the language of text they alone have authored or debugging their own code, but not to generate text, interpret results (including experimental data, simulations), solve assigned problems, generate presentations, formulate scientific conclusions or write the code required for computational assignments. Students remain fully responsible for the accuracy and reliability of their learning, and should be able to demonstrate their understanding of the work submitted during discussions with staff. Specifically, students are expected to be able to answer questions and explain and justify the theory, procedures, analysis and conclusions provided in their assignments and projects, as well as the structure and workings of any code used. For any assignment/presentation/project, students must include a statement that they had adhered to this AI usage statement, which is based on UCD guidelines, citing any AI tools used and (if requested) the prompts submitted.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

As part of UCD's student support, under the Additional Consideration policy, extensions may be available for the following assessments in the module: Assignment (including essay/poster), Portfolio, Reflective Assignment, Report(s), and Individual Project.

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.