Toruń, Poland

Physics and Astronomy

Master's
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⇑Physics and Astronomy at UMK

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

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You receive raw telescope data full of noise. How do you approach it?

2. How do you feel about advanced mathematics – differential equations, tensors and statistical methods?

3. Observing sessions can mean staying awake until dawn and waiting for clouds to clear. How do you feel about that?

4. Your simulation of a galaxy gives results that disagree with observations. What do you do?

5. How do you feel about programming – Python, numerical methods and working with large datasets?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on research projects with students from many countries. How do you see that?

7. Which research topic would you choose?

8. You have to present your results at a seminar and answer critical questions. How do you feel?

9. A lecture leaves you with more questions than answers. How do you react?

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

⇑Definitions and quotes

Astronomy
Astronomy (from Greek: ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena. It applies mathematics, physics, and chemistry, in an effort to explain the origin of those objects and phenomena and their evolution. Objects of interest include planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and comets; the phenomena include supernova explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation. More generally, all phenomena that originate outside Earth's atmosphere are within the purview of astronomy. A related but distinct subject, physical cosmology, is concerned with the study of the Universe as a whole.
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 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.
Physics
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...
Albert Einstein, Mein Weltbild (1931)
Astronomy
At night astronomers agree.
Matthew Prior, Phillis's Age, Stanza 3; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 46.
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