Newtonian and Relativistic Mechanics
Syllabus: dimensions, one-dimensional kinematics, two-dimensional kinematics, circular motion, forces and Newton’s laws, work and energy, momentum and collisions, rotational kinematics, rotational dynamics, inertial frames of reference, Einstein’s postulates, spacetime, simultaneous events, time dilation, length contraction, Lorentz transformation, relativistic quantities, conservation laws

Mathematics I
Syllabus: differentiation, sequences and series, hyperbolic functions, integration, limits, complex numbers, first-order differential equations, second-order differential equations, vector algebra, linear algebra, matrices, matrix applications, differentiation and integration of functions of several variables

Mathematical Modelling - Python Programming
Syllabus: problem solving strategies and algorithm development, programming fundamentals and Python, loops, conditional statements, user input and printing results, debugging and testing methods, modular system and importing libraries, defining functions and using built-in functions, using Visual Python to produce animations of mechanics simulations

Electromagnetism and Waves
Syllabus: electric charge and Coulomb’s law, charge distributions, forces and fields, electric flux and Gauss’s law, work and energy in electric fields, potential energy, capacitors and capacitance, magnetic fields, Biot-Savart law, magnetic flux, electromagnetic induction - Faraday/Lenz Laws and self-inductance, Kirchoff laws, constants and waveforms, simple harmonic motion, harmonic oscillator, resonance, coupled oscillators and normal modes, the wave equation, travelling waves and the creation of harmonics, superposition - interference, reflection and standing waves, the Doppler effect, beats and dispersion

Mathematics II
Syllabus: scalar and vector fields, grad and application to physics, divergence and application to physics, Laplace operator and Laplace’s equation, curl and application to physics, polar coordinates, matrices, matrix applications, tensors, second-order partial differential equations and application to physics, Frobenius method, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, Lagrange’s equations, Kepler’s laws, rigid body dynamics, Hamilton’s principle and the Hamiltonian

Quantum Physics II
Syllabus: postulates of QM, observables, Hermitian operators and measurements, commutators, the uncertainty principle, time-dependent SE and solutions, position and momentum operators, the Hamiltonian operator, angular momentum operators, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, expectation values, the simple harmonic oscillator, solutions of the time-independent SE, particle in a two- and three-dimensional box, degeneracy, particle in a spherically symmetric potential, hydrogenic wavefunctions and energies

Nuclear physics
Syllabus: masses, radii and nuclear binding energy, semi-empirical mass formula, nuclide chart, limits of stability, neutron/proton separation energies, unstable nuclei: decay and radioactive dating, kinematics and Q-value for alpha and beta decay, gamma decay of excited nuclear states, quantum tunnelling for alpha decay, nuclear reactions: kinematics and notation, elastic, inelastic and capture, reaction cross-sections and Q-value for reactions, shell structure in nuclei and shell models, fission and fusion

Thermodynamics
Syllabus: systems, state functions, quasistatic reversible processes and equations of state, zeroth law of thermodynamics, empirical temperature scales and thermometers, first law of thermodynamics and internal energy, heat capacity, ideal and real gases, van der Waals and virial equations, enthalpy and latent heat, Carnot cycles, second law of thermodynamics and entropy, Otto and Diesel cycles, Clausius theorem, Helmholtz and Gibbs functions, Maxwell relations, third law of thermodynamics, applications of the fundamental ideas of thermodynamics, Clausius-Clapeyron equation, Ehrenfest’s equation

Statistical Mechanics
Syllabus: microstates, thermal equilibrium and temperature, entropy, elementary applications, vibrational heat capacity of solids, ideal gas, systems with variable number of particles, identical particles, blackbody radiation, the classical limit

Quantum Physics III
Syllabus: quantum mechanical commutators and their significance for the compatibility of measurements, quantum mechanical treatment of angular momentum, time-independent SE for a spherically symmetric potential and application of this to hydrogenic atoms, extension of quantum mechanics to incorporate spin, matrix mechanics, theory of measurement, approximate methods for solving the SE, nuclear moments, nuclear models, alpha decay, gamma-ray decay, beta decay, fission and fusion

Relativity
Syllabus: spacetime, reference frames, interval or extension, Minkowski rotation matrix, proper time and four-vectors, mass-energy-momentum, spacetime diagrams, the principle of equivalence, the Schwarzschild Metric, the radar-time delay, geodesic equations, the curvature of light, observational effects of relativity, blackholes, Hawking radiation

Grade: First‑class honours with distinction (Starred First)