Lecture Courses 2004
Still to be updated for 2004
- Physics Honours students must complete six full-courses from those listed below, subject to the constraints indicated.
- The concept of half-courses has been introduced. A full-course is typically 20 lectures, for both Honours and Senior Physics options. Half-courses will be 10 lectures in length and will give students more flexibility in their subject choice.
- Written examinations scheduled for courses both full and half length, will be held as usual at the end of semester (see Important Dates section). However, mid-semester tests may be held as part of the assessment for courses, to assist students with gauging their progress.
- Normally, individual Physics courses will only be run if at least 4 students are signed up. This is very seldom a restriction.
- A proposed two-year program of courses is given below, particularly to aid mid-year intake and part-time students who will continue with their candidature into 2004. It should also be noted that the School of Physics is about to undertake a review of its Senior Physics and Honours Programs, but any changes will be implemented in a way so as not to disadvantage current students.
- General Relativity (offered on alternate years by Physics and Mathematics).
- Electromagnetic Theory
- Waves in Fluids
- Markov Processes (Advanced)
- Mathematical Methods (Advanced)
- Neural Networks
- Group Theory and Special Functions
- Nonlinearity and Chaos in Fluids
- Path Integral Methods
- Perturbation Methods
- Integral Transforms and Asymptotic Methods
- The Philosophy of Modern Physics - a course given by the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy.
Course Names
* Core courses – at least one full course must be taken by all students.
Safety Course
A compulsory session on Safety and Resuscitation will be held, usually on the same day as the Honours Information Program, near the start of semester 1 (March 2003). This course is not for credit.
Timetables for 2003
Honours courses, Semester 1, 2003
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri |
9 am | GR | GR | GR | ||
| 10 am | POP/AD | AQM | |||
| 11 am | AQM | POP/AD | |||
| 12 pm | KT/FN | KT/FN |
AD – Advanced Diffraction (Professor D. McKenzie)
AQM – Advanced Quantum Mechanics (A/Professor R. Hewitt)
FN – Fluctuations and Noise (Professor R. McPhedran)
GR – General Relativity (Professor P. Robinson)
POP – Practice of Physics (A/Professor T. Bedding)
KT – Kinetic Theory (Professor R. McPhedran)
The half courses will be scheduled sequentially so that students may choose any combination of the four subjects.
There will be a week free of lectures (week 6, starting 14 April) in the middle of the semester to allow for possible mid-term tests. Whether the AQM and GR courses have this week free of lectures is to be discussed in class with the lecturer.
Honours courses, Semester 2, 2003
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri |
| 9 am | AET | ||||
| 10 am | SS | SS | OPP | AET | |
| 11 am | OPP | ||||
| 12 pm | PP | PP | |||
| 3-5 pm | MdPh |
AET – Advanced
Electromagnetic Theory (Serdar Kuyucak)
SS – Space
and Solar Physics (Iver Cairns, Mike Wheatland)
PP – Particle
Physics (Kevin Varvell and Lawrence Peak) Particle
Physics web page
OPP – Optical
Physics and Photonics (Ben Eggleton, Martijn de Sterke, Ross
McPhedran, Justin Blows)
MdPh – Medical
Physics (Natalka Suchowerska) Medical physics webpage
Assignments
Optical
Physics and Phototonics Assignment 2
Medical Physics Assignment 2
OTHER COURSE POSSIBILITIES
1. Senior Physics Options
One course can be chosen from the following Senior Physics options not taken in third year or two Senior Physics options for students who complete two or more core courses. Students who did 3rd year at another University must consult the Physics Honours Coordinator regarding these choices. Not all options are necessarily offered every year, so students should confirm the 2003 selection with the Senior Physics Coordinator at the start of the year. Only one of Scientific Visualisation or Scientific Computing may be taken.
Semester 1 |
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Condensed Matter Physics |
Dr N. Marks and Professor D. McKenzie |
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Scientific Computing |
lecturer to be advised |
Semester 2 |
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Astrophysics |
Dr. A. Green and Professor R. Hunstead |
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Modern Optics |
Professor M. de Sterke |
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Plasma Physics |
Professor M. Bilek |
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Scientific Visualisation |
lecturer to be advised |
2. Environmental Physics (Grad Dip Env Sci)
The Environmental Physics module may be chosen in Semester 1. The course comprises lectures, discussion seminars and short field trips and is presented by Professor D. McKenzie and Dr C. Dey.
3. Courses in other Departments
So long as each student takes at least 4 out of their 6 courses within the School of Physics, they may take some courses offered by other departments, with the approval of the Physics Honours Coordinator:
(a) Students may include any of the following Honours Mathematics courses:
(b) Students may include any of the following Senior (Advanced) Mathematics courses in place of Senior Physics options (subject to the same overall limit on the number of Senior level courses taken):
(c) With the permission of the Physics Honours Coordinator, students are permitted to include additional Honours or Senior Advanced Mathematics courses (subject to the requirement to take at least 4 courses within the School of Physics). Some suitable courses are:
(d) With permission from the Physics Honours Coordinator some other courses can be substituted for Senior level optional courses above. An example is:
In past years certain courses from Chemistry, Biochemistry, Psychology, Education, Marketing, and other departments have also been approved for credit under this provision.
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