Physics
Honours
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Honours in Physics is embedded within the Bachelor of Advanced Studies. Students are required to successfully undertake a 24-credit-point research project, under the supervision of a member of physics staff. An indicative list of projects is available on the School of Physics Student Portal. Students are also required to take 24 credit-point of 4000-level coursework selective units.
Honours in Physics is available to students with a major in physics, subject to requirements on their average grades. Most physics honours units have advanced 3000-level physics units as assumed knowledge. Admittance into the program is determined by the Faculty of Science, and requires that a staff member first agree to supervise the student's research project.
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PHYS4017 Practitioner Physics has been cancelled for 2022. |
18/02/2022 |
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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PHYSICS (HONOURS) |
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| The Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Honours) (Physics) requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 18 credit points of 4000-level Honours coursework selective units from List 1, and | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 4000-level Honours coursework selective units from List 1, or List 2, or List 3, and | |||
| (iii) 24 credit points of 4000-level Honours research project units | |||
Honours Coursework Selective |
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List 1 |
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| PHYS4121 Advanced Electrodynamics and Photonics |
6 | A A major in physics including third-year electromagnetism and third-year optics P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units including (PHYS3x35 or PHYS3x40 or PHYS3941) |
Semester 1 |
| PHYS4122 Astrophysics and Space Science |
6 | A A major in physics P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units |
Semester 1 |
| PHYS4123 General Relativity and Cosmology |
6 | A A major in physics and knowledge of special relativity P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units |
Semester 2 |
| PHYS4124 Physics of the Standard Model |
6 | A A major in physics including third-year quantum physics and third-year particle physics P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units including (PHYS3X34 or PHYS3X42 or PHYS3X43 or PHYS3X44) |
Semester 2 |
| PHYS4125 Quantum Field Theory |
6 | A A major in physics including third-year quantum physics P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units including (PHYS3x34 or PHYS3x42 or PHYS3x43 or PHYS3x44 or PHYS3x35 or PHYS3x40 or PHYS3941 or PHYS3x36 or PHYS3x68 or MATH3x63 or MATH4063 or MATH3x78 or MATH4078) |
Semester 1 |
| PHYS4126 Quantum Nanoscience |
6 | A A major in physics including third-year quantum physics and third-year condensed matter physics P An average of at least 65 in 144 cp of units |
Semester 2 |
List 2 |
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| PHYS4015 Neural Dynamics and Computation |
6 | A First- and second-year physics P 144cp of units including (MATH1x01 or MATH1x21 or MATH1906 or MATH1931) and MATH1x02 |
Semester 2 |
| PHYS4016 Bayesian Data Inference and Machine Learning |
6 | A 48 credit points of 3000-level units of study and programming experience in Python P 144 credit points of units of study including (12cp of MATH1XXX) or [(6cp of MATH1XXX) and DATA1X01] |
Semester 2 |
| PHYS4017 Practitioner Physics |
6 | A 48cp of 3000-level units, and a major or minor in Physics P 144 credit points of units of study including 12cp of PHYS1XXX |
Semester 1 |
| PHYS4036 Condensed Matter and Particle Phys (Hons) |
6 | A (MATH2X21 or MATH2X61 or MATH2067). Students will need to have some knowledge of special relativity, for example from prior study of PHYS2013 or PHYS2913, or from studying Chapter 12 of "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by D.J. Griffith P 144 credit points of units of study including [6 credit points of (PHYS3X34 or PHYS3X90 or PHYS3991) and 6 credit points of (PHYS3X42 or PHYS3X43 or PHYS3X44)] N PHYS3036 or PHYS3936 or PHYS3080 or PHYS3980 or PHYS3068 or PHYS3968 or PHYS3069 or PHYS3969 or PHYS3074 or PHYS3974 |
Semester 1 |
| PHYS4037 Plasma and Astrophysics (Hons) |
6 | A (MATH2X21 or MATH2X61 or MATH2067) P 144 credit points of units including (PHYS3X35 or PHYS3X40 or PHYS3941) N PHYS3037 or PHYS3937 or PHYS3042 or PHYS3942 or PHYS3043 or PHYS3943 or PHYS3044 or PHYS3944 |
Semester 2 |
| SCIE4001 Science Communication |
6 | A Completion of a major in a science discipline. Basic knowledge of other sciences is beneficial. Experience in communication such as delivering oral presentations and producing written reports. An awareness of science in a societal context, e.g., of disciplinary applications P 144 credit points of units of study and including a minimum of 24 credit points at the 3000- or 4000-level and 18 credit points of 3000- or 4000-level units from Science Table A Mid-year honours students would take this unit of study in S1 (their second semester of study). |
Semester 1 |
| SCIE4002 Experimental Design and Data Analysis |
6 | A Completion of units in quantitative research methods, mathematics or statistical analysis at least at 1000-level P 144 credit points of units of study and including a minimum of 24 credit points at the 3000- or 4000-level and 18 credit points of 3000- or 4000-level units from Science Table A N ENVX3002 or STAT3X22 or STAT4022 or STAT3X12 |
Semester 1a |
| SCIE4003 Ethics in Science |
6 | A Successful completion of a Science major P 144 credit points of units of study and including a minimum of 24 credit points at the 3000- or 4000-level and 18 credit points of 3000- or 4000-level units from Science Table A N HSBH3004 or HPSC3107 |
Semester 1a Semester 2a |
List 3 |
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| HPSC4101 Philosophy of Science |
6 | P 12 credit points of HPSC3XXX or PHIL3XXX or HSTY3XXX |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4061 Metric Spaces |
6 | A Real analysis and vector spaces. For example (MATH2922 or MATH2961) and (MATH2923 or MATH2962) P An average mark of 65 or above in 12cp from the following units (MATH2X21 or MATH2X22 or MATH2X23 or MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3968 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3978 or MATH3979) N MATH3961 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4062 Rings, Fields and Galois Theory |
6 | P (MATH2922 or MATH2961) or a mark of 65 or greater in (MATH2022 or MATH2061) or 12cp from (MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3968 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3978 or MATH3979) N MATH3062 or MATH3962 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4063 Dynamical Systems and Applications |
6 | A Linear ODEs (for example, MATH2921), eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix, determinant and inverse of a matrix and linear coordinate transformations (for example, MATH2922), Cauchy sequence, completeness and uniform convergence (for example, MATH2923) P (A mark of 65 or greater in 12cp of MATH2XXX units of study) or [12cp from (MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3961 or MATH3962 or MATH3968 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3978 or MATH3979)] N MATH3063 or MATH3963 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4068 Differential Geometry |
6 | A Vector calculus, differential equations and real analysis, for example MATH2X21 and MATH2X23 P (A mark of 65 or greater in 12cp of MATH2XXX units of study) or [12cp from (MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3961 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3978 or MATH3979)] N MATH3968 |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4069 Measure Theory and Fourier Analysis |
6 | A (MATH2921 and MATH2922) or MATH2961 P (A mark of 65 or greater in 12cp of MATH2XXX units of study) or [12cp from the following units (MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3961 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3978 or MATH3979)] N MATH3969 |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4071 Convex Analysis and Optimal Control This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A MATH2X21 and MATH2X23 and STAT2X11 P [A mark of 65 or above in 12cp of (MATH2XXX or STAT2XXX or DATA2X02)] or [12cp of (MATH3XXX or STAT3XXX)] N MATH3971 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4074 Fluid Dynamics |
6 | A (MATH2961 and MATH2965) or (MATH2921 and MATH2922) P (A mark of 65 or above in 12cp of MATH2XXX ) or (12cp of MATH3XXX ) N MATH3974 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4076 Computational Mathematics |
6 | A (MATH2X21 and MATH2X22) or (MATH2X61 and MATH2X65) P [A mark of 65 or above in (12cp of MATH2XXX) or (6cp of MATH2XXX and 6cp of STAT2XXX or DATA2X02)] or (12cp of MATH3XXX) N MATH3076 or MATH3976 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4077 Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics |
6 | A 6cp of 1000 level calculus units and 3cp of 1000 level linear algebra and (MATH2X21 or MATH2X61) P (A mark of 65 or greater in 12cp of MATH2XXX units of study) or [12cp from (MATH3061 orMATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3078 or MATH3961 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3968 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3978 or MATH3979)] N MATH3977 |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4078 PDEs and Applications |
6 | A (MATH2X61 and MATH2X65) or (MATH2X21 and MATH2X22) P [A mark of 65 or greater in 6cp from (MATH2X21 or MATH2X65 or MATH2067) and a mark of 65 or greater 6cp from (MATH2X22 or MATH2X61)] or [12cp from (MATH3061 or MATH3066 or MATH3063 or MATH3076 or MATH3961 or MATH3962 or MATH3963 or MATH3968 or MATH3969 or MATH3971 or MATH3974 or MATH3976 or MATH3977 or MATH3979)] N MATH3078 or MATH3978 |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4079 Complex Analysis |
6 | A Good knowledge of analysis of functions of one real variable, working knowledge of complex numbers, including their topology, for example MATH2X23 or MATH2962 or MATH3068 P (A mark of 65 or above in 12cp of MATH2XXX) or (12cp of MATH3XXX) N MATH3979 or MATH3964 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4311 Algebraic Topology This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A Familiarity with abstract algebra and basic topology, e.g., (MATH2922 or MATH2961 or equivalent), (MATH3961 or equivalent) and (MATH2923 or equivalent). |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4312 Commutative Algebra |
6 | A Familiarity with abstract algebra, e.g., MATH2922 or equivalent |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4313 Functional Analysis |
6 | A Real Analysis and abstract linear algebra (e.g., MATH2X23 and MATH2X22 or equivalent), and, preferably, knowledge of Metric Spaces |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4314 Representation Theory |
6 | A Familiarity with abstract algebra, specifically vector space theory and basic group theory, e.g., MATH2922 or MATH2961 or equivalent N MATH3966 |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4315 Variational Methods This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A Assumed knowledge of MATH2X23 or equivalent; MATH4061 or MATH3961 or equivalent; MATH3969 or MATH4069 or MATH4313 or equivalent. That is, real analysis, basic functional analysis and some acquaintance with metric spaces or measure theory. |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4411 Applied Computational Mathematics |
6 | A A thorough knowledge of vector calculus (e.g., MATH2X21) and of linear algebra (e.g., MATH2X22). Some familiarity with partial differential equations (e.g., MATH3X78) and mathematical computing (e.g., MATH3X76) would be useful |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4412 Advanced Methods in Applied Mathematics |
6 | A A thorough knowledge of vector calculus (e.g., MATH2X21) and of linear algebra (e.g., MATH2X22). Some familiarity with partial differential equations (e.g., MATH3X78) and mathematical computing (e.g., MATH3X76) would be useful |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4413 Applied Mathematical Modelling This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A MATH2X21 and MATH3X63 or equivalent. That is, a knowledge of linear and simple nonlinear ordinary differential equations and of linear, second order partial differential equations. |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4414 Advanced Dynamical Systems This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A Assumed knowledge is vector calculus (e.g., MATH2X21), linear algebra (e.g., MATH2X22), dynamical systems and applications (e.g., MATH4063 or MATH3X63) or equivalent. Some familiarity with partial differential equations (e.g., MATH3978) and mathematical computing (e.g., MATH3976) is also assumed. |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4511 Arbitrage Pricing in Continuous Time |
6 | A Familiarity with basic probability (eg STAT2X11), with differential equations (eg MATH3X63, MATH3X78), achievement at credit level or above in MATH3XXX or STAT3XXX units or equivalent |
Semester 1 |
| MATH4512 Stochastic Analysis |
6 | A Students should have a sound knowledge of probability theory and stochastic processes from, for example, STAT2X11 and STAT3021 or equivalent |
Semester 2 |
| MATH4513 Topics in Financial Mathematics This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | A Students are expected to have working knowledge of Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Calculus and mathematical methods used to price options and other financial derivatives, for example as in MATH4511 or equivalent |
Semester 2 |
| STAT4021 Stochastic Processes and Applications |
6 | A Students are expected to have a thorough knowledge of basic probability and integral calculus and to have achieved at credit level or above in their studies in these topics N STAT3011 or STAT3911 or STAT3021 or STAT3003 or STAT3903 or STAT3005 or STAT3905 or STAT3921 |
Semester 1 |
| STAT4022 Linear and Mixed Models |
6 | A Material in DATA2X02 or equivalent and MATH1X02 or equivalent; that is, a knowledge of applied statistics and an introductory knowledge to linear algebra, including eigenvalues and eigenvectors N STAT3012 or STAT3912 or STAT3022 or STAT3922 or STAT3004 or STAT3904 |
Semester 1 |
| STAT4023 Theory and Methods of Statistical Inference |
6 | A STAT2X11 and (DATA2X02 or STAT2X12) or equivalent. That is, a grounding in probability theory and a good knowledge of the foundations of applied statistics N STAT3013 or STAT3913 or STAT3023 or STAT3923 |
Semester 2 |
| STAT4026 Statistical Consulting |
6 | P At least 12cp from STAT2X11 or STAT2X12 or DATA2X02 or STAT3XXX N STAT3926 |
Semester 1 |
| STAT4027 Advanced Statistical Modelling |
6 | A A three year major in statistics or equivalent including familiarity with material in DATA2X02 and STAT3X22 (applied statistics and linear models) or equivalent P (STAT3X12 or STAT3X22 or STAT4022) and (STAT3X13 or STAT3X23 or STAT4023) |
Semester 2 |
| STAT4028 Probability and Mathematical Statistics |
6 | A STAT3X23 or equivalent: that is, a sound working and theoretical knowledge of statistical inference N STAT4528 |
Semester 1 |
| STAT4528 Probability and Martingale Theory |
6 | A STAT2X11 or equivalent and STAT3X21 or equivalent; that is, a good foundational knowledge of probability and some acquaintance with stochastic processes N STAT4028 |
Semester 1 |
Honours Core Research Project |
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| PHYS4103 Physics Honours Project A |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| PHYS4104 Physics Honours Project B |
6 | C PHYS4103 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PHYS4105 Physics Honours Project C |
6 | C PHYS4104 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| PHYS4106 Physics Honours Project D |
6 | C PHYS4105 and SCIE4999 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| SCIE4999 Final Honours Mark |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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