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About the Department
The Department of Physics was re-established in 1987 as part of the Faculty of
Science. Since then, the Department's academic staff complement rose to five
full time and two part time members plus one Teaching Assistant.
Three Laboratory Officers, a Laboratory Manager and an Executive Officer
constitute the support
The concern of physics is the behaviour of matter and its interaction with
energy under conditions as different as the chamber of a fusion reactor and the
inside of an integrated circuit.
With boundaries extending from the more specialised areas of theory to practical
engineering, physics underlies the other exact and practical sciences and has
now reached the stage of widespread application at most levels of civilised
existence.
The design of the undergraduate physics course reflects the need to provide as
wide a base as the human resources of the department permit. It is intended to
provide a sound basis in the subject during the first three years, with some
specialisation in chosen areas offered during the final year. It is designed
to equip students with the necessary knowledge, experience and skills to pursue
careers as scientists within industry, administration, education and, of course,
research.
Apart from the undergraduate course in physics, the Department offers postgraduate
courses (MSc, MPhil, PhD) in most of its areas of interest, which include:
Geophysics and Seismography
Atmospheric Physics
Solid state devices and electronic instrumentation
High frequency (microwave to terahertz) solid state devices, sub-systems and applications
Alternative energy devices and applications.
Apart from the pursuit of knowledge and its application, among the main objectives
of the Department is collaboration with other departments (both local and foreign)
and with industry. We are therefore eager to receive requests for assistance
and/or collaboration from all quarters in a bid to demonstrate that physicists
are the most versatile of scientists, capable of tackling a variety of both
everyday and specialist problems. They are indispensable assets in a wide-ranging
spectrum of human activity.
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