REVISION GUIDES
On this page you can find our student-made revision guides and resources for various Physics modules. We are currently working on updating these.
In the academic years 2022/23 and 2023/24, many physics (and mathematics modules for those on the MathPhys degree stream) modules were updated and changed course code. Hence some guides may differ from the current lecture courses or you may find modules used to have different names (see archive). In some cases, multiple students have contributed notes and as such different documents are listed below the module title (format "notes 1, notes 2, etc").
Note: these guides should be used in conjunction with other material and as they are often meant as summaries, not comprehensive notes. Lecture notes and videos on Moodle should always be consulted for a fully up to date version of the course.
If you spot any errors or have suggestions on how to improve these documents, please let us know!
Underlined titles have notes available.
First Year Modules
PX153: Mathematics for Physicists
PX155: Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity
PX157 Electricity and Magnetism
Second Year Modules
PX262 Quantum Mechanics and its Applications
- Physics, Physics with Business and Physics with Astro only
PX286: Methods of Mathematical Physics
- Maths and Physics only
PX280 Environmental Physics
PX282 Stars and the Solar System
PX284: Statistical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory and Optics
- Note there are 2 separate links
PX285: Hamiltonian and Fluid Mechanics
Third Year Modules
PX385: Condensed Matter Physics
PX390: Scientific Computing
PX399: The Earth and its Atmosphere
PX448: Mathematical Methods III
PX3A2: Quantum Physics of Atoms
PX3A4: Plasma Physics and Fusion
PX3A5: The Standard Model
PX3A6: Galaxies and Cosmology
PX3A8: Physics of Life and Medicine
PX3A9: Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
Fourth Year Modules
PX431: Structure and Dynamics of Solids
PX443: Planets, Exo-planets and Life
PX446: Condensed Matter Physics II
PX447: Quantum Computation and Simulation
PX453: Advanced Quantum Theory
PX454: Theoretical Particle Physics
PX455: Frontiers of Particle Physics
PX456: Solar and Space Physics
PX457: High Performance Computing
PX458: The Distant Universe
ARCHIVE
We have old module lecture notes for reference. These may cover similar things but most have been merged or turned into new modules.
First Year Modules
- (now PX156 Quantum Phenomena)
PX109 Relativity (old module - now in PX155 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity)
PX118 Waves (now in PX154 Physics Foundations)
PX120 Electricity and Magnetism (now PX157 Electricity and Magnetism)
PX121 Thermal Physics I (now in PX154 Physics Foundations)
PX132 Mechanics and Relativity (now in PX155 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity)
PX144 Introduction to Astronomy (now PX158 Astronomy)
PX145 Physics Foundations (now PX154 Physics Foundations)
PX147 Introduction to Particle Physics (now in PX156 Quantum Phenomena)
Second Year Modules
- Now PX282 Stars and the Solar System
PX273 Electrical Power Generation
PX274 Experimental Particle Physics
PX263 Electromagnetic Theory and Optics
- Now PX284 Statistical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory and Optics
PX264 Physics of Fluids
- Now PX285 Hamiltonian and Fluid Mechanics
- Now PX284 Statistical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory and Optics
- Now PX85 Hamiltonian and Fluid Mechanics