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Degree Programme Table: Mathematical Physics (BSc Hons) (UTMAPYB)


Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies and consulted the Programme Guide: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/progguides

    For students performing well in the pre-semester diagnostic test, Mathematics for Physics 1 may, by permission by the Director of Teaching, be substituted for 20 points of optional courses.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 6 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS08016 Physics 1A: Foundations Semester 1 20
    MATH08057 Introduction to Linear Algebra Semester 1 20
    MATH08058 Calculus and its Applications Semester 2 20
    MATH08059 Proofs and Problem Solving Semester 2 20
    PHYS08035 Mathematics for Physics 1 Semester 1 20
    PHYS08036 Mathematics for Physics 2 Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 0 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

    Year 2, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies and consulted the Programme Guide: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/progguides

    Physics 2B laboratory is replaced by Physics 2A Java and Data Analysis.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 8 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS08023 Physics 2B: Waves, Quantum Physics and Materials Semester 2 20
    MATH08005 Foundations of Calculus Semester 1 10
    MATH08006 Several Variable Calculus Semester 1 10
    MATH08007 Linear Algebra Semester 2 10
    MATH08035 Methods of Applied Mathematics Semester 2 10
    PHYS08038 Mathematics for Physics 4 Semester 2 20
    MATH08008 Probability (Year 2) Semester 1 10
    PHYS08040 Dynamics Semester 1 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, during Semester 1
    PHYS08022     Physics 2A: Forces, Fields & Potentials     (20 credits)

    Notes:Not available to Direct Entry (POE2) students.
     

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 08, during Semester 1
    MATH08062     Accelerated Algebra and Calculus for Direct Entry     (20 credits)

    Notes:Direct Entry to Year 2 students (PO2) must take this option in place of Physics 2A.
     

    Year 3, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies and consulted the Programme Guide: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/progguides

    Progression to Honours requires a minimum average grade of 'C' performance in MP2A: Vectors, Tensors and Fields and MP2B: Dynamics, OR in Foundations of Mathematical Physics.

    From 2010/2011, progression to Honours requires a grade 'C' performance in Mathematics for Physics 4 (MfP4).


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 6 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS10016 Tensors and Fields Semester 1 10
    PHYS09017 Quantum Mechanics Semester 1 10
    PHYS10015 Lagrangian Dynamics Semester 2 10
    PHYS09018 Electromagnetism Semester 2 10
    MATH10033 Complex Variable & Differential Equations Full Year 20
    PHYS09016 Computational Methods Semester 1 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 10 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 10 credits course level 09, during Semester 2
    PHYS09019     Statistical Mechanics     (10 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 10 credits course level 10, during Semester 2
    PHYS10083     Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics     (10 credits)

     


    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:    
    AND   

    Select exactly credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedule P, as available

     


    Year 4, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Before making your course choices, please ensure you have met your Director of Studies and consulted the Programme Guide: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/progguides


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 6 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS10034 Methods of Mathematical Physics Semester 1 10
    PHYS10043 Quantum Physics Semester 1 10
    PHYS11019 Quantum Theory Semester 1 10
    PHYS11012 Hamiltonian Dynamics As available 10
    PHYS10046 Team Review Project Full Year 10
    PHYS11045 Classical Electrodynamics Semester 2 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PHYS10083    Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics   10  
    PHYS09019    Statistical Mechanics   10  

    Notes:Students must take both these courses in either Junior or Senior Honours
     

    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select a minimum of 0 credits and a maximum of 60 credits from these collections:  

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PHYS10014    Advanced Computer Simulation   10  
    PHYS10080    Astronomical Statistics and Measurement   10  
    PHYS10024    Astrophysical Cosmology   10  
    PHYS10072    Astrophysics 3   20  
    PHYS10026    Atomic and Molecular Physics   10  
    PHYS10028    Condensed Matter Physics   10  
    PHYS10015    Lagrangian Dynamics   10  
    PHYS10034    Methods of Mathematical Physics   10  
    PHYS10035    Modelling and Visualisation in Physics   10  
    PHYS10043    Quantum Physics   10  
    PHYS10045    Stellar Evolution   10  
    PHYS10083    Symmetries of Quantum Mechanics   10  
    PHYS10016    Tensors and Fields   10  
    MATH10021    Algebra   20  
    MATH10001    Complex Variable   10  
    MATH10002    Differential Geometry   10  
    MATH10049    Metric Spaces   10  
    MATH10026    Number Theory   20  
    MATH10023    Numbers & Rings   10  
    MATH10008    Pure & Applied Analysis   20  
    MATH10027    Topology   20  
    METE10001    Atmospheric Dynamics   10  
    METE10002    Atmospheric Physics   10  
    METE10003    Physics of Climate   10  
    EASC10036    Geomagnetism   10  
    MECE10004    Fluid Mechanics (Mechanical) 4   10  
    PHYS10042    Physics Skills (BSc)   10  
    PHYS10033    Mathematics Skills   10  
    PHYS10081    Research Methods in Physics   10  
    PHYS10082    Subatomic Physics   10  

    Notes:Level 10 courses - the Programme Guide gives details and constraints on choice of courses to facilitate advance planning.
     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PHYS11035    Advanced Cosmology   10  
    PHYS11007    Advanced Statistical Physics   10  
    PHYS11040    Biological Physics   10  
    PHYS11037    Computational Astrophysics   10  
    PHYS11039    Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics   10  
    PHYS11010    General Relativity   10  
    PHYS11012    Hamiltonian Dynamics   10  
    PHYS11013    High Energy Astrophysics   10  
    PHYS11044    Lasers and Applications   10  
    PHYS11014    Macromolecular Physics   10  
    PHYS11005    Parallel Fortran in Physics   10  
    PHYS11019    Quantum Theory   10  
    PHYS11020    Radiation and Matter   10  
    PHYS11021    Relativistic Quantum Field Theory   10  
    PHYS11024    Statistical Physics   10  
    PHYS11036    The Standard Model   10  
    PHYS11041    Nuclear Physics   10  
    PHYS11042    Particle Physics   10  
    PHYS11045    Classical Electrodynamics   10  
    PHYS11047    Modern Quantum Field Theory   10  
    PHYS11017    Physics Skills (MPhys 4)   10  
    PHYS11018    Physics Skills (MPhys 5)   10  

    Notes:Level 11 courses - the Programme Guide gives details and constraints on choice of courses to facilitate advance planning.
    NOTE: One 20 point Senior Honours Project may be selected in place of two 10 point courses.
     

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