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Trinity term, the third and final term of each year, contains mostly revision from the previous two terms, after which students take their final exams, which basically account for their entire grade. Trinity is therefore a very tense part of the year for the students. After that they have summer holidays, until coming back for the next year of madness.

The official external course landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/physics. 2021 archive: web.archive.org/web/20221208212856/https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/physics) In those pages we see the rough structure, except that it does not have the course codes "A1" etc., and some courses are missing.

At web.archive.org/web/20221229021312/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-06-03/course_v3_pdf_80151.pdf page 11 we can see the global course structure giving the two options, 3 year BA or 4 year Oxford physics masters:

Year 1
(Prelims)
|
|
v
Year 2
(Part A)
|
+-----------+
|           |
v           v
Year 3 BA   Year 3 (MPhys)
(Part B)    (Part B)
|           |
|           |
v           v
BA          Year 4
            (Part C)
            |
            |
            v
            MPhys

Practical courses notes: www-teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk/

Some others with lecture notes:

Andrew Steane users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Steane/teaching/lecture_course.html also books. No license. Cute HTML quantum error correction one: users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~Steane/qec/QECtute.html

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Oxford physics course handbook by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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The normal navigation to them was paywalled, but the static files are served without login checks if you know their URL. One way to go about it is to search by prefix on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/contentblock/2011/06/03/*

The last handbooks we can find are 2020/2021, they might have move to a new more properly paywalled location after that year.

2020/2021:
2019/2020. They seem to have split the handbook up per year after some point.
2016/2017: www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-06-03/course_v3_pdf_80151.pdf 2022 archive: web.archive.org/web/20221229021312/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-06-03/course_v3_pdf_80151.pdf
This older handbook had a more detailed course breakdown in terms of terms and weeks, e.g. on page 19.

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Oxford Physics Joint Consultative Committee by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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pjcc.physics.ox.ac.uk/committee/

Group of students that represent students academic views about the courses.

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Physics course of the University of Oxford structure by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Year 1 of the physics course of the University of Oxford by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Year 2 of the physics course of the University of Oxford by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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A1 Oxford physics course by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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2013 notes: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/AlexanderSchekochihin/A1/A1MT13.html

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Chromosomal crossover by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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B2 Oxford physics course by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/AndreiStarinets/sr_mt_2022.html (archive) contains 2022 problem sets and notes, well done Mr Andrei Starinets!

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B4 Oxford physics course by

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www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml As of 2023, contains some good 2015 materials: web.archive.org/web/20220525094139/http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml It was called "Subatomic physics" back then.

2015 professor: Alan J. Barr.

Possible 2022 professor: Guy Wilkinson (unconfirmed): www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-guy-wilkinson

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The Oxford Solid State Basics by

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www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/book.html

Closed source course book for B6 Oxford physics course.

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Year 4 of the physics course of the University of Oxford by

Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16

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Students choose only one of the Cx courses.

Then there are PhDs corresponding to each of them: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mpls/physics

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