Advanced Laboratory I
PHY 334 Spring 2006
Class Hours
Tuesday (SLN 43981)
12:40-1:30 in PSF 306
1:40-3:30 in PSF 377
other hours to be arranged
Thursday (SLN 75734)
12:40-1:30 in PSF 306
1:40-3:30 in PSF 377
other hours to be arranged
Instructors
Gary Adams
Office: PSF 423
Phone: (480) 727-6511
Email: Gary.Adams@asu.edu
Office hours
Teaching Assistant
Jim Ball
Email: JAMES.P.BALL@asu.edu
Office hours: TBA
Help-Study: TBA
Course Objective:
Development of experimental techniques and data analysis skills;
introduction to report writing; laboratory notebook usage. Students
should purchase two full-size bound laboratory notebooks (you should
be able to tape or paste 8.5x11 sheets into your notebook).
Each student will maintain his/her own laboratory notebook and will
submit an individual lab report.
Experiments:
Four to five experiments will be performed in groups of approximately four students.
The lab schedule is available here.
Descriptions of the experiments are available here.
Location:
PSF306 (Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:40-2:30) is reserved for any
necessary meetings of the full class. These meetings will be announced as
necessary. However, most weeks the entire three hour class time will be spent in
PSF-377.
Email:
Your ASU email address will be used to disseminate information. Students are
responsible for receiving it. Make sure that your ASU email address is
functional and that your spam filter, if operating, allows emails from both
instructors and from our TA.
Reference Books:
The following books have been requested on the Reserve List at
Noble Library:
Adrian C. Melissinos, Experiments in Modern Physics
The 1966 version has both Thermionic Emission and Compton Scattering.
There are also several copies available in PSF377.
John R. Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis
Bevington and Robinson, Data Reduction and Error Analysis
If you plan to be an experimental physicist, it is worthwhile to
purchase a personal copy of Bevington. It is a standard and
often-used reference. In the 3rd edition, the rules for propagation
of errors are on pages 48-49.
J.J. Brehm and W.J. Mullin, Introduction to the Structure of Matter
Brehm and Mullin contains
useful information for both the X-Ray Physics and Compton experiments.
Grading:
The due dates for each lab are available on the Lab Schedule. For each
lab, each student will turn in their lab notebook plus a 2-3 page
summary of the lab, which should indicate where, in the lab notebook,
all relevant data, calculations, graphs, etc. can be found. The lab grade
will consist of the instructor's evaluation of both the student's lab notebook
and the written summary. For the
Astrophysics Labs, these instructions will be superseded by instructions
from Paul Scowen.
The full text of the syllabus is also available as a pdf file.
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