Physics Thinking - PHYS1000


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Physics
	Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Currently Enrolled: In an Advanced Science Program. 3931, 3936, 3972, 3973, 3985, 3986 or 3990.
	Fee Band: 5 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

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.