When you start the course you will receive a departmental handbook which gives detailed syllabi and recommends a variety of text books for each module.
Some books are available from a departmental loan scheme.
The course gives a general understanding and theoretical treatment of these apparently disparate phenomena. Our understanding of atomic structure and the photon nature of electromagnetic radiation developed rapidly and in parallel during the early part of the 20th century. This led to the notion of wave-particle duality and was the trigger for the Quantum Mechanics that forms the basis for much of the later part of the Physics course. Many aspects of the structure of gases, liquids and solids are considered, mainly in terms of the interatomic forces and interaction energies. These topics lead to a study of Thermodynamics, including its application to the properties of ideal and real gases.