Course details

A Primary Degree in which Mathematical Physics or an equivalent form a substantial component. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.

Minimum English language requirements:

  • IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
  • TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
  • TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
  • PTE (Pearson): 62

Module

Year 1

  • COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS II
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS
  • QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING
  • CHAOS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
  • ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
  • PARTICLE PHYSICS
  • ELECTROMAGNETISM
  • SOLID STATE PHYSICS
  • STATISTICAL MECHANICS
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS (ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS )
  • COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 1
  • FLUID MECHANICS
  • SPECIAL RELATIVITY
  • CLASSICAL MECHANICS
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS 2
  • MATHEMATICAL METHODS (DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND COMPLEX ANALYSIS )
  • CONDENSED MATTER THEORY: INTERACTIONS, MAGNETISM AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Maynooth University

This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.

Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.

  • In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
  • Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.  
  • Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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