Module Identifier | PX35010 | ||
Module Title | EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND SKILLS IN PHYSICS | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Geraint O Thomas | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Other staff | Dr Lorraine A Allen | ||
Pre-Requisite | Core Physics Modules at Level 1 | ||
Course delivery | Practical | 11 four hour sessions | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Course Work: 'Mock Report' | 20% |
Semester Assessment | Course Work: Full Report | 30% | |
Semester Assessment | Course Work: Laboratory Notebook and one page summary | 30% | |
Semester Assessment | Presentation: Oral Presentation | 20% |
A number of scientific programming languages exist. Although each has a slightly different vocabulary, the basic techniques of analysing a scientific problem and representing it as a mathematic model are common to all scientific languages.
In the present course you will receive instruction on scientific programming using Visual Basic. Visual Basic has been chosen as it allows the basic elements of programming language to be learnt in a windows environment. Visual Basic is also a language used widely in other disciplines and will be a valuable additional skill you can include in your CV. You should also find that the logical analysis skills you develop when learning the to program computers are also extremely useful in other areas of your studies and later on in many jobs.
In addition to programming skills, students on the module will be able to register for a joint course on business awareness with students from Swansea and Cardiff at the University of Wales residential centre at Gregynog in mid-Wales. This will be supplemented by further group work on analysis of scientific problems at UWA.