Your project supervisor will be monitoring the effort you are putting in on your project. Any student who does not appear to be making satisfactory progress on their project will be required to discuss the matter with the Director of Studies.

Credit

As you know we operate a credit accumulation scheme whereby your performance in all years of your course count towards your final degree classification. Your marks this year contribute 30% towards that final classification.

Assessed Modules

This year modules given by the Physics Department are 100% examined with the exceptions of Scientific Programming, the Physics Group Project and the laboratory which are 100% assessed.

Examinations

The probable organisation of the formal examinations set by the Physics Department is given below (you will be notified of any changes). There will be several paper formats; papers examining one module which will be of 2 hours duration for a 15 CAT module or 1.5 hours for a 7.5 CAT one, or a 3-hour paper with 2 sections each examining one 7.5 CAT module. You will note that the 1.5 hour exam per 7.5 CAT module is somewhat longer than in previous years.

Examinations are held at two points during the year - week 30 (i.e. immediately after the Easter vacation) and in weeks 33-36 (May/June). The papers are likely to be as follows:

• Week 30
  • PX382Z
    • A - PX382 Quantum Physics of Atoms
    • B - PX393 Crystal Physics
  • PX3890
    • PX389 Cosmology
• Weeks 33 to 36
• PX308X
  • A - PX308 Physics in Medicine
  • B - PX350 The Weather and the Environment

• PX3700
  • PX370 Optoelectronics and Laser Physics
• PX384X
  • A - PX384 Electrodynamics
  • B - PX392 Plasma Electrodynamics
• PX3940
  • PX394 Electrons in Solids
• PX3870
  • PX387 Astrophysics
• PX3660
  • PX366 Statistical Physics
• PX3880
  • PX388 Magnetic Resonance
• PX3910
  • PX391 Nonlinearity, Chaos and Complexity
• PX3950
  • PX395 The Standard Model
• PX3960
  • PX396 Nuclear Physics
• PX4400
  • PX440 Mathematical methods for Physicists III

The examination results will be available sometime on Wednesday of the last week of Term 3.

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