DPT: Physics and Music (BSc Hons) (UTPHAMU)

Year 1, Academic year 2015/16, 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 School of 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
MUSI08068	Music 1B: Instruments, Culture and Technology	20
MUSI08067	Composition 1	20

Notes:Composition 1 is available to students with Higher or A Level Music, or equivalent.

A pass in one of these courses is compulsory for progression to Year 2.

Year 2, Academic year 2015/16, 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
MUSI08053	Music 2D: Theory and Practice of Music Technology	20
MUSI08030	Composition 2	20
MUSI08029	Style Studies 2	20

Notes:Passes in two of these courses are compulsory for progression to Year 3.

Year 3, Academic year 2015/16, 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 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Select exactly 40 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.

Year 4, Academic year 2015/16, 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 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.

Overarching rule collection group: A
Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:

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

AND

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

AND

Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available

Code	Course Name	Credits
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
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	10
PHYS10033	Mathematics Skills	10
PHYS10090	Numerical Recipes	10
PHYS10102	Astrophysics	20
PHYS10101	Cosmology	10
PHYS10100	Data Acquisition and Handling	10
PHYS10099	Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics	10
PHYS10097	Soft Condensed Matter Physics	10
PHYS10095	Solid State Physics	10
PHYS10084	Science Education Placement: Physics	20
PHYS10105	Methods of Theoretical Physics	20
EASC10098	Earth's Atmospheric Composition	10

Notes:Level 10 options for SH/IM students in Physics and Astronomy

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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2015/2016

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

Year 1, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: September

Year 2, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

Year 3, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

Year 4, Academic year 2015/16, Starting month: August

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