Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 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, molecular orbital theory, magnetic resonance, molecular bonding, phase equilibria, quantum theory of solids, and applications to the study of specific elements and higher compounds.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • atomic physics
  • molecular physics

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• Exclusion(s)

  • molecular biophysics(26.0206)
  • nuclear physics(40.0806)
  • particle physics(40.0804)