physics department

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A physics department is the administrative and academic unit within a university or college that houses faculty, students, and resources dedicated to studying physics.

The term refers both to the organizational structure and often to the physical space—offices, labs, classrooms—where physics is taught and researched: She's applying to the physics department for a postdoc position.

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