Overview
Description
Application of contemporary devices for the acquisition and interpretation of data obtained from physical systems encountered in atomic, nuclear, solid state and particle physics.
Units
Laboratory Studio2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate ability to operate modern measurement apparatus safely and effectively.
- keep a detailed laboratory notebook, which includes a description of the background for the experiment, the experimental techniques used, the data collected, the analysis performed, and the results or conclusions found.
- perform quantitative error analysis on measured data, taking into account statistical and systematic uncertainties in an experiment.
- prepare a scientific report on the results of a modern physics experiment in a similar style to that used in the current physics journal literature.
- prepare and present a poster on the results of a modern physics experiment.