Welcome to Physics 145, Winter Semester 2011

Introductory Experimental Physics Lab I (AC Physics)

Instructor: Branton J. Campbell

Office: N261 ESC, Tel: 422-5758

Lectures: Tues. 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM in 254 CB

Lab location: S420 ESC

Office hours: Right before lecture (Noon to 1:00 PM) or by appointment.

 

April 5th: Don't forget your make-up labs this week.  If necessary, you make up more than one lab.  But in order to do so, you need to attend two separate sections during the week.  See the syllabus for times when other sections meet.  A number of students scored poorly on the first lab of the semester because they didn't yet understanding our grading rubric and failed to include an introduction or conclusion.  You may add the missing sections and resubmit lab 1 to your TA during your regularly scheduled lab period this week for regrading.  Note that this opportunity doesn't apply to any of the other labs.

 

Mar 21st: The date/time for our final exam was corrected in the syllabus today.  The one-hour-long exam will be in the room where usually hold lectures (254 Clyde Building) on Saturday April 16th from 11 AM to Noon (same time for all sections).  This should agree with your RouteY exam schedule.  If not, please contact me.

 

Feb 3th: We changed the future lab sequence today.  The Labview component of the course has been moved back to week 9, the anharmonic-oscillator lab was dropped, and a new complex-analysis lab (Lab 6) has been created.

 

Jan 24th: As of this week, we will no longer be writing introductions in our lab notebooks.  The quiz questions accomplish everything that the introduction accomplished before and more.  The Procedural section will now be worth 5 points, so that each lab is still worth 10 points total.  The syllabus was updated today to reflect these changes.

 

Course syllabus & schedule

Check lab grades online

New lab manual

 

Lecture Slides: Optics, Spectroscopy, Interference/Diffraction, Data Analysis, AC Impedance, Fourier Analysis, Loudspeakers