Mathematical Physics

This major combines the overviews of the Physics and the Mathematics and Statistics majors.

Mathematical Physics Major Graduates should demonstrate:

• mastery of a broad spectrum of mathematical methods and ability to use these methods to solve diverse problems in the physical as well as the engineering sciences;
• appreciation of the distinction between mathematics which is a science based on rigorous proofs and physics which is a science based on experimental results;
• ability to move back and forth between abstract mathematical concepts and concrete physical results, transferring ideas from one subject to the other;
• aptitude at modelling physical phenomena in mathematical terms, as well proposing physical realizations of mathematical results;
• ability to communicate abstract mathematical ideas to an audience with a heterogeneous background in the physical and engineering sciences as well as communicating real-life experimental results to mathematicians;
• intuition into applicability of mathematics in the real world and ability to extract a physical significance of mathematical facts;
• facility in successfully joining groups of researchers from diverse backgrounds including mathematicians as well as physicists and engineers.

Completion of 50 points of study at Level 3.

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PLEASE NOTE: This major will be undergoing a change to its third year Physics subjects in 2017. Students wishing to undertake this major who have only completed first year Physics subjects must complete PHYC20012 Thermal & Quantum Physics, PHYC20015 Special Relativity & Electromagnetism and PHYC20013 Labratory & Computational Physics 2 to be prepared for the major in 2017.

PHYC20009, PHYC20010 and PHYC20009 should only be taken in 2016 by students who have already complete one or more of these subjects.