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

Year 1, Academic year 2014/15, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor 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 Theoretical 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  
    MUSI08056    Music 1D: Introduction to Compositional Techniques   20  

    Notes:Music 1D is available to students with Higher or A Level Music.

    The selected course is compulsory for progression.
     


    Year 2, Academic year 2014/15, Starting month: August

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



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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS08045 Modern Physics Semester 1 10
    PHYS08042 Linear Algebra and Several Variable Calculus Semester 1 10
    PHYS08046 Physics of Fields and Matter Semester 2 20
    PHYS08043 Dynamics and Vector Calculus Semester 2 20
    PHYS08048 Practical Physics Full Year 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
    MUSI08060    Music 2A: Music and Ideas from the Middle Ages to Viennese Classicism   20  
    MUSI08061    Music 2B: Music and Ideas from Romanticism to the Late Twentieth Century   20  
    MUSI08050    Music 2C: Intermediate Training in Compositional Techniques   20  
    MUSI08053    Music 2D: Theory and Practice of Music Technology   20  

    Notes:Other Music courses (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 2014/15, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Progression to third year requires passes in all second year specified compulsory courses. This is in addition to the general progression requirement.

    Before making your course choices, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor and consulted the Programme Guide: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/progguides


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PHYS09054 Fourier Analysis Semester 1 10
    PHYS09053 Quantum Mechanics Full Year 20
    PHYS09061 Thermal Physics Full Year 20
    PHYS09060 Electromagnetism Full Year 20
    PHYS09056 Research Methods in Physics Full Year 10




    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 2014/15, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Before making your course choices, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor 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 
    PHYS10046 Team Review Project Full Year 10
    MUSI10055 Musical Applications of Fourier Theory and Digital Signal Processing Semester 1 20
    PHYS10096 Relativity, Nuclear and Particle Physics Semester 1 20
    PHYS10099 Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics Semester 1 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  
    PHYS10084    Science Education Placement: Physics   20  

     

    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Music Level 10 and 11 courses, as available

     


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