PHYS1000 Physics Thinking - Session 2 Only

This course is a 3UC course for Advanced Science students.

Students will study techniques in scientific thinking and experimentation, including: seeing similarities, using diverse knowledge and techniques, having good ideas. Estimation in theory and experiment. The course will mainly be taught in small groups organised to solve experimental and theoretical problems, some of them quite difficult. The problems may have fundamental as well as applied character, but the emphasis of the course is on universal principles, including conservation, symmetries, scaling and dimensional analysis, behaviour near equilibrium.

Timetable
Refer to Lecture Times

Venue
Students studying this course will meet initially in Room 02, Study Area, Old Main Building/Room 01, Main Laboratory.

Course Texts:
There is no single set text for PHYS1000, students will advised on and consult a variety of different information sources throughout the course (although the text Survey & Jewett 'Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics', used for Higher Physics 1A will provide a useful reference).