The Master of Physics course in Cambridge University is a professor-oriented master's course, which aims to provide supplementary courses for students who have obtained a three-year bachelor's degree in physics (or an equivalent subject with similar physical content) and may have similar physical degrees.

First of all, the course introduction

This course aims to bring students close to the boundaries of current research, so it is related to the professional knowledge of a specific research group in the Department of Physics. Over time, candidates made a series of choices that allowed them to choose a specific field of physics, such as condensed matter physics, particle physics, astrophysics, biophysics or semiconductor physics. Emphasis can cover the range from intensive experiments to advanced theoretical physics, and provide a series of professional choices.

All students have also conducted a large number of research courses, which are expected to account for one-third of the whole year. Physics department students and fourth-grade students study the physics part of Cambridge natural science comprehensive course together, which is usually called the third part of physics. At present, the detailed information of the third part of physics course can be found on the website of physics department. Please note that the courses available to students will change every year (especially the small courses studied in the university semester), so this year's course list can only be used as a guide for future available courses.

Second, learning outcomes.

At the end of the course, students will:

Strengthened their extensive understanding of physics, the core field of Cambridge bachelor's physics course;

Develop their knowledge in the field of physics and make them close to the boundaries of current research;

Understand the technology and literature related to the curriculum areas they are concerned about;

Demonstrate the application of knowledge in research background, and be familiar with the research and inquiry methods used to popularize knowledge;

Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate knowledge;

It shows some self-guidance and originality in solving and solving research problems, and acts independently in the planning and implementation of research.

Third, teaching methods.

The course begins with lectures in about seven core areas: these "main topics" are taught in Michael Festival terms and cover a large number of physical fields. Students can choose to take three or more courses. During the last course, students take three or more short-term professional "small topics" courses (about 12) for examination. Alternative courses for major and minor subject courses can be obtained from a small number of courses taught or shared by other departments. During the whole year, students also participated in an evaluation research course, which accounted for about one-third of their scores, and there will be a three-hour general physics paper at the end of the year.

One-on-one tutoring students usually meet with their course instructors at least once every few weeks to review their progress. Seminars and Courses In order to prepare general physics papers at the end of the year, an introductory course and some sample courses will be provided in the final course. These usually run for two hours each. In addition, all students are welcome to attend all departmental research seminars. The main course of the lecture is 24 lectures, most of which are 16 lectures. Lectures usually last an hour. All lecture courses in group teaching are supported by group meetings and organized and coordinated by lecturers. These can take the form of demonstration classes, group supervision or seminars. Usually, each course will provide students with this support for three to four hours.

Depending on the instructor of each course, students may need to submit their works (problem sets) for detailed review or show their works to the participants before the group meeting. Submitted works usually do not return detailed comments. On the contrary, the feedback will be mainly verbal, but the lecturer should submit a short written supervision report at the end of each semester. Although the course supervisor will provide a short written supervision report at the end of the course, the feedback on the research course is mainly verbal and provided during the supervision process.

Fourth, the thesis.

The research course will be evaluated based on the examination of students' experimental notebooks, a course report of no more than 5,000 words, and a short-term (about 30 minutes) oral examination with the course supervisor and another staff member. The students orally introduced their research courses.

Take a two-hour exam for three or more professional courses. These will be completed at the beginning of the course. Three or more minor subjects are tested for one and a half hours. These usually begin in the last class. A three-hour general physics paper ends at the end of the last class. If candidates choose to take any interdisciplinary course, the third part of mathematics course or other courses instead of any main and sub-topic papers, there are some other papers.

Candidates who choose to use extra external courses instead of small monographs will be evaluated by two members by reviewing the course report of students with no more than 5000 words and a short (about 30 minutes) oral test. Candidates who attend entrepreneurship courses, not small projects, will be evaluated according to the course assignments set by the course coordinator.