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Homework/Past Paper Solutions:

These are my own solutions to selected problem sets and past papers of the Oxford MPhys course (Years 1-3) and the MMathPhys course from the years 2014 to 2018

My solutions are NOT guaranteed to be correct, and probably not as good as your own. Also some of the problem sets are outdated. But I am sure that this page will still serve as a good learning resource. Good luck!

Oxford MPhys Year 2:

Optics (2015/16)

-Problems: optics_problems

PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4 / PS5

Quantum Mechanics (2015/16)

-Problems: PS1-3 / PS4-7

-Solutions: PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4 / PS5 / PS6 / PS7

Further Quantum Mechanics (2015/16)

-Problems: PS1 / PS2 / PS3

-Solutions: PS1 / PS2 / PS3

Statistical Mechanics (2015/16)

-Problems: PS1 / PS2 / PS3&4 / PS5-8&Revision

-Solutions: PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4 / PS5 / PS6 / PS7 / PS8 / Revision

Electromagnetism (2015/16)

-Problems: PS0 / PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4

-Solutions: PS0 / PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4

Mathematical Methods:

-Problems: PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4 / PS5

-Solutions: PS1 / PS2 / PS3 / PS4 / PS5

A1 Past Paper Solutions

/ 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2009 / 2003

A2 Past Paper Solutions

/ 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2003

A3 Past Paper Solutions

/ 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2003

Oxford MPhys Year 3:

B1 Flows, Fluctuations and Complexity (2016/17)

-Problems: fluids_problems_1 / fluids_problems_2 / fluids_problems_3

-Solutions: B1_1 / B1_2 / B1_3

-Past Paper Solutions:  / 2016 /

B2 Symmetry and Relativity (2016/17)

-Problems and Solutions: B2_123_selected1 / B2_4_selected1

-Past Paper Solutions: / 2016 /

B3 Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics (2016/17)

-Problems: PS012 / PS34

-Solutions: B3_1 / B3_2 / B3_3 / B3_4

-Past Paper Solutions: / 2015 /

B4 Subatomic Physics (2016/17)

-Problems: problem_sets

-Solutions: B4_PS1 / B4_PS2 / B4_PS3 / B4_PS4

-Past Paper Solutions: / 2016 /

B5 General Relativity and Cosmology (2016/17)

-Problems: PS1_17 / PS2_17 / PS3_17 / PS4_17

-Solutions: B5_1 / B5_2B5_3B5_4

-Past Paper Solutions: / 2015 / 2016 /

Oxford MMathPhys:

Quantum Field Theory (2017/18)

-Problems: Set 1 / Set 2 / Set 3 / Set 4

-Solutions: QFT_1 / QFT_2 / QFT_3 / QFT_4 / QFTAddedNotes1

-Past Paper Solutions: 2016 / 2017 /

Groups and Representations (2017/18)

-Problems: ps1 / ps2 / ps3

-Solutions: Groups_PS_1 / Group__PS_2 / Groups_PS2_Q5Groups_PS3

-Past Paper Solutions: 2016 / 2017 /

General Relativity I (2017/18)

-Problems: Problem Sheet 1 / Problem Sheet 2 / Problem Sheet 3 / Problem Sheet 4

-Solutions: GR_I_PS1 / GR_I_PS2 / GR_I_PS3 / GR_I_PS4

General Relativity II (2017/18)

-Problems: Problem sheet 1 (for classes on weeks 3 and 4) / Problem sheet 2 (for classes on weeks 5 and 6) / Problem sheet 3 (for classes on weeks 7 and 8) / Problem sheet 4 (for classes on TT)

-Solutions: GR_II_PS1 / GR_II_PS2 / GR_II_PS3 / GR_II_PS4

String Theory I (2017/18)

-Problems: problems1 / problems2 / problems3 / problems4

-Solutions: String_Theory_I_PS1 / String_Theory_I_PS2 / String_Theory_I_PS3 /String_I_PS4_Part1

Conformal Field Theory (2017/18)

-Problems: CFTproblems

-Solutions: CFT_PS1 / CFT_PS2 / CFT_PS3_Part1 / / CFT_PS4_Part1 /

String Theory II (2017/18)

-Problems: StringsII-Assignment1 (1) / StringsII-Assignment2 / StringsII-Assignment3 / StringsII-Assignment4

-Solutions: String_II_PS1 / String_II_PS2 / String_II_PS3String_II_PS4_Part1 / / String2AddedNotes1

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (2017/18)

-Problems: problem-sheet-1 (1) / problem-sheet2a / problems3

-Solutions: QFTcurve_PS1 / QFTcurve_PS2_Part1 / / QFTcurve_PS3

*PS1-Q2-line10 expression for the Faraday tensor needs an extra minus sign since metric is (+,-,-,-) in this course. Only this line needs to be fixed. The rest is all correct.

*Also

The following link contains solutions to selected A2 papers written by a Professor at Oxford

www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~podsi/a2/