PHYSICS 2BL - LABORATORY METHODS OF PHYSICS

Fall 2011

Course at a Glance
(See Course Overview for more details and instructions) People Name Email Office Office Hours Lecturer Frank Wuerthwein Lab TA Coordinator (LTAC) Tera Austrum 2bl@ucsd.edu 5515 Mayer Hall Addition Mayer Hall Addition 1462 Monday 11-12 am Monday 2-4pm Events Time Mondays, 7:00-7:50 pm
- 4 labs total, 2 lectures per lab* st - 1 lecture to introduce experiment nd - 2 lecture on data analysis

Lectures

Place Solis 107

Labs Final Exam

Individual section time Monday, Nov. 28, 7:00 pm (week 10) Materials

MHA 2722, 2BL lab Solis 107

Uses: Course website Textbook 2bl.ucsd.edu J. R. Taylor, An Introduction to error analysis.

- Lecture notes, Lab guidelines, HW solutions, grading rubrics - Frequent course announcements - Essential for data analysis necessary for lab reports and studying for the final exam. - Source of homework assignments on data analysis. - One notebook for experiments 1,3 and one for experiments 2,4. You will need two in order to work on one while the other is being graded. -Number crunching!

Lab notebooks

Purchase (2) quad ruled small black composition books Any type

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Quizzes (4) Lab reports (4) Final exam

Grading (absolute scale, see course overview) Due dates Points each Points total Beginning of Day 1 for each lab 5 20 End of Day 2 for each lab 10 40 10th week (see above) 40 40