Bydgoszcz, Poland

Physics

Fizyka

Master's
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⇑Physics at UKW

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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⇑Test: Is Physics the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Your measurements disagree with the theoretical model by a few per cent. What do you do?

2. How comfortable are you with advanced mathematics – differential equations, linear algebra, complex analysis?

3. You have to choose a research group for your thesis. How do you decide?

4. How do you feel about writing code to simulate a physical system or analyse large data sets?

5. The programme is taught in English and your group includes physics graduates from different countries. How do you see that?

6. You come across a preprint claiming a surprising result in your area. What do you do?

7. An experiment needs weeks of setting up and calibrating before you get any data. How do you feel?

8. Would you be willing to present your results at a conference and answer tough questions?

9. A company asks for help modelling heat flow in a new device. How do you react?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Physics?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Physics
Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη), translit. physikḗ (epistḗmē), lit. 'knowledge of nature', from φύσις phýsis "nature") is the natural science that studies matter and its motion and behavior through space and time and that studies the related entities of energy and force. Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves.
Physics
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefor objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.
Niels Bohr, "The Unity of Human Knowledge" (October 1960)
Physics
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1925)
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Physics and philosophy are at most a few thousand years old, but probably have lives of thousands of millions of years stretching away in front of them. They are only just beginning to get under way.
James Jeans (1942) Physics and Philosophy, p. 217.

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