The Department of Physics and Electronics is one of the departments under the Faculty of Science, Technology and Innovation (FoSTI) at Mzuzu University. It was first established in 1999 as a Physics Section under the Department of Basic Sciences in the Faculty of Education. It started offering courses in January 2000. The Physics Section was reconstituted into a stand-alone Department of Physics in 2003. Its mandate then was to offer courses in physics and physics methodology to pre-service secondary school teachers. Where necessary, the Department also accepted students from other programmes to register for the courses it offered. The Department also participated in in-service courses for serving secondary school physical science teachers and conducted research in physics, physics teaching/learning and related disciplines.
Due to the university – wide faculty restructuring, the Department of Physics was reconstituted into the Department of Physics and Electronics in 2018. Its mandate is to offer physics and physics-related programmes and courses. It is also expected to conduct research, consultancy and outreach activities in physics and physics-related disciplines.
Courses Offered
- General Physics I (PHYS 1101)
- General Physics II (PHYS 1201)
- Electromagnetism (PHYS 2301)
- Classical Mechanics I (PHYS 2401)
- Classical Mechanics II (PHYS 3501)
- Device and Analogue Electronics (PHYS 3502)
- Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics (PHYS 3503)
- Quantum Mechanics (PHYS 3601)
- Digital Electronics and Design (PHYS 3602)
- Circuit Theory (PHYS 3603)
- Nuclear and Particle Physics (PHYS 4701)
- Signals and Systems (PHYS 4702)
- Optoelectronics and Photonics (PHYS 4703)
- Solid State Physics (PHYS 4801)
- Communication Physics (PHYS 4802)
- Introduction to Medical Physics (PHYS 4803)
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