PHYS V7100 Graduate Physics Laboratory I
The concepts and tools of experimental physics. Basic analog apparatus and digital electronics; the use of minicomputers for data acquisition, the control of experiments and data analysis; discussion of intrinsic noise and error analysis. Execution of several advanced experiments, including statistics of radioactive decay, Raman spectroscopy, temperature dependence of resistivity, and others. The second semester of this course is PHYS W5901.
Contact Hours
2 lect., 2 lab. hr./wk.