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Physics Skills 1

When you'll study it: Semester 1
CATS points: 10
ECTS points: 5
Level: Level 4
Module lead: Otto Muskens
Academic year: 2025-26

Module overview

The Physics Skills units develop a range of skills needed by a professional physicist, including facility in conducting experiments and in analysing and reporting their results. Physics Skills 1 runs in first semester and its companion Physics Skills 2 (PHYS1019) follows in the second semester. Classes are held in the first year teaching lab and the teaching rooms in the Physics Building (Building 46). The first semester module PHYS1017 is a prerequisite for PHYS1019.

Learning and Teaching

Study time
Type	Hours
Preparation for scheduled sessions	1.5
Follow-up work	1.5
Lecture	3
Wider reading or practice	10
Completion of assessment task	134
Total study time	150

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

I Hughes & T Hase (2010). Measurements and their Uncertainties: a practical guide to modern error analysis. OUP.

Assessment

Assessment strategy

No more than 4 laboratory sessions may normally be omitted for a mark to be returned for the course. Late Submissions: Unless explicitly approved by the Faculty Special Considerations Board late submissions are not permitted for this module. Referral Method: There is no referral opportunity for this syllabus in same academic year.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Continuous Assessment	100%

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Set Task	100%

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal