UNSW Handbook Course - Physics Thinking

Physics Thinking - PHYS1000


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Physics
	Contact: Newbury,Richard
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Currently Enrolled: In an Advanced Science Program. 3931, 3936, 3972, 3973, 3985, 3986 or 3990.
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

Techniques in scientific thinking and experimentation: seeing similarities, using diverse knowledge and techniques, having good ideas. Estimation in theory and experiment. The subject 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.

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