Physics: Energy and the Environment

Course Description

This Masters programme lasts one year (full-time) and contains 180 credits. You will undertake 120 credits of advanced laboratories and lecture courses in Semesters 1 and 2. Your curriculum will be flexible and tailored to your prior experience and chosen research project. Semester 1 courses will focus on building core theoretical and experimental/computational skills relevant to the area of energy and the environment , while courses taken in Semester 2 will build key research skills – in preparation for the extended 60 credits project which runs over the summer period.

Core courses include:

• Energy and environment
• Problem-solving workshop
• Research skills
• Advanced data analysis for physics and astronomy
• Extended project

Optional courses include:

• Advanced physics laboratory
• Advanced electromagnetic theory
• Statistical mechanics
• Detectors and Imaging
• Plasma theory and diagnostics (alternate years, starting 2013–14)