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This year you get a chance to find out what it is like to work in a research lab

What is the most economical way of partioning space with equally sized cells?

The Weaire-Phelan structure improves on Kelvin’s solution, and is the inspiration for the Watercube in Beijing, which is being built for the Beijing Olympics..

Senior Sophister - Physics and Astrophysics

Modules

In their final year students taking the Astrophysics option take all of the following modules.

• PY4A03 - Planetary & Space Science (5 credits)
• PY4A04 - Interstellar Medium & Cosmology (5 credits)
• PY4C01 - Computer Simulation III (5 credits)
• PY4P01 - Quantum Physics (5 credits)
• PY4P02 - High Energy Physics (5 credits)
• PY4P05 - Electromagnetic Interactions II (5 credits)
• PY4P06 - Modern Optics (5 credits)
• PY4AP1 - Practical in Physics & Astrophysics (25 credits)
  
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