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Degree Programme Table: Physics and Music (BSc Hons) (UTPHAMU)


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

    As an alternative to the mathematics courses, students may take the Mathematics courses prescribed for the Year 1 programme of the Mathematical Physics BSc degree.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS08016 Physics 1A: Foundations Semester 1 20
    PHYS08017 Physics 1B: The Stuff of the Universe Semester 2 20
    PHYS08021 Musical Acoustics Semester 1 20
    PHYS08035 Mathematics for Physics 1 Semester 1 20
    PHYS08036 Mathematics for Physics 2 Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, during Semester 2
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    MUSI08012    Music 1B: Music and Technologies   20  

    Notes:Music 1C: Musical Literacy must be taken, where students do not hold a Higher or A-level in Music.
     

    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

    As an alternative to the mathematics courses, students may take the Mathematics and Mathematical Physics courses prescribed for the Year 2 programme of the Mathematical Physics BSc degree.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS08022 Physics 2A: Forces, Fields & Potentials Semester 1 20
    PHYS08023 Physics 2B: Waves, Quantum Physics and Materials Semester 2 20
    PHYS08037 Mathematics for Physics 3 As available 20
    PHYS08038 Mathematics for Physics 4 Semester 2 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    MUSI08031    Music 2A: Music and Ideas   20  
    MUSI08033    Music 2B: Set Works   20  
    MUSI08050    Music 2C: Intermediate Training in Compositional Techniques   20  

    Notes:Other Music courses (2D, E, F) are in preparation but not yet in the course schedule. These too will be suitable options for students on this programme.
     

    Year 3, 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 7 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS09017 Quantum Mechanics Semester 1 10
    PHYS09014 Dynamics and Relativity Semester 1 10
    PHYS09018 Electromagnetism Semester 2 10
    PHYS09019 Statistical Mechanics Semester 2 10
    PHYS10081 Research Methods in Physics Full Year 10
    PHYS09015 Physical Mathematics Semester 1 10
    MUSI10055 Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing Semester 1 20




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


    Select exactly 20 credits from Music Level 9 and 10 courses, as available

    Notes:The Programme Guide gives details and constraints on choice of courses, to facilitate advance planning.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A and Q, as available

    Notes:The Programme Guide gives details and constraints on choice of courses, to facilitate advance planning. Note that courses from Schedule A only apply to those offered by the School of Music.
     

    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 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS10082 Subatomic Physics Semester 1 10
    PHYS10042 Physics Skills (BSc) Semester 1 10
    PHYS10026 Atomic and Molecular Physics Semester 2 10
    PHYS10046 Team Review Project Full Year 10




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


    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    MUSI10016    Dissertation in Music   40  
    PHYS10086    Senior Honours Project (Physics & Astronomy) Semester 1   20  
    PHYS10087    Senior Honours Project (Physics & Astronomy) Semester 2   20  

    Notes:You must select one project from the Musical Acoustics Project List in accordance with the Senior Honours Project booklet. Students may replace one of the courses (Physics Honours Project (Semester 1)) or (Physics Honours Project (Semester 2)) with 20 points of courses from Schedule Q at Level 10/11.
     

    Select a minimum of 40 credits and maximum of 60 credits from Music Level 10 and 11 courses, as available

     

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