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640-299 Laboratory Work

Credit points: 9.0

Coordinator: Prof. K A Nugent

Prerequisite: Physics 640-121+122 or 141+142 (before 1996: 640-120 or 640-140).

Contact: 78 hours laboratory work (six hours a week)

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

By the end of this course the student should:

• comprehend a wide variety of experimental and data analysis techniques;
• be able to apply critical reasoning to the evaluation of experimental data, and the sources of experimental uncertainty that arise in experimental physics;
• have acquired a high degree of skill in keeping experimental log books and in presenting the results of experimental work;
• appreciate the power and limitations of experimental work as well as the central role that experiment plays in physics.

Content:

The topics available are: optics, acoustics, nuclear and classical physics

Assessment:

Assessed continuously throughout the subject.

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 228)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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