Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

• 7 - Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences
• 71 - Physics, Chemistry, Geology and Related Sciences
• 40. - Physical Sciences
• 40.08 - Physics

40.0802 - Atomic/Molecular Physics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the behaviour of matter-energy phenomena at the level of atoms and molecules. These programs include courses in chemical physics, atomic forces and structure, fission reactions, molecular orbital theory, magnetic resonance, molecular bonding, phase equilibria, quantum theory of solids, and applications to the study of specific elements and higher compounds.

• Example Program Names:

  • Atomic physics
  • Molecular physics

• Exclusion

  • Molecular biophysics(26.0206)
  • Particle physics(40.0804)
  • Nuclear physics(40.0806)