Synopsis

The Computational Physics project — if you choose to submit one — is worth one unit of further work, so roughly 10% of your final mark for the year. It involves choosing a problem from the project list. You will analyse the problem, write and test Python code to investigate it, then write up your work in a report. Like E1 and E2, you can expect it to involve 40 to 50 hours’ work. This includes reading and research, coding, experimentation and gathering results, and writing your report.

Students may start their project work once the project list is published by 17th February. The deadline for submission of the project report is 16:00 on the first Monday of Full Easter term.

Bear in mind that everything in your report should be your own work, and your submission will be treated as a declaration of this fact. The rules regarding cheating and plagiarism in the Physics course handbook (Page 34) apply here. It is OK for you to use code that others — that’s what a library is, after all — but in all cases the attribution should be clear.