The department is based on the west side of campus and boasts excellent teaching and research facilities, including recently refurbished laboratories for physics and engineering.
In addition, the University’s £17 million STEMLab facility includes a state-of-the-art physical sciences laboratory, designed for physics students to explore the fundamentals of mechanics, electricity and magnetism, quantum phenomena, waves, solid state and thermal physics.
It also includes a physics and optics laboratory, allowing for the practical examination of optics and the behaviour of light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics and mechanics.
We also have a departmental observatory, featuring a 16-inch equatorially-mounted Meade telescope, 8inch GPS mobile optical telescope, Coronado solar telescope, and an Elliot Instruments spectrometer.
