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PHYS 310 - Experimental Physics

Course Information

• Course Syllabus
• Course Calendar (check here for assignment deadlines, submit in your Google Drive folder)
• Project Assignments (we will update before each new lab to show what project you are assigned to)

Office Hours:

• Ibrahim (Olin 174): Tue: 10:00am - 11:00 am , Fri: 10:00 am - 11:00 am and by appointment
• Jackie Villasden (Olin 252): Wed: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm and by appointment

Announcements

• Physics seminars will be posted here - please attend 4 STEM seminars this semester! (Seminars not posted here are still okay.)
• Thurs Jan 29, 12 pm, Olin 268: Physics seminar - Matthew Krebs (Penn State), Quantum simulation and Rydberg atoms
• Thurs Feb 26, 12 pm, Olin 268: Physics seminar - Matt Paoletti (Northrup Grumman), Quantum turbulence
• Thurs Feb 26, 7 pm, Hildreth-Mirza Great Hall: Physics Alumni Panel

Assignment guidelines

• Lab Notebook Checklist

• Brief Lab Summary

  • Brief Lab Summaries (Download project zip file , and upload it to a new project on overleaf.com

• Informal Oral Reports

• Formal Papers:

  Grading criteria for papers and Overleaf template

Lecture Materials

Class #1 (1/20) Intro to Course and Jupyter

• Computing Core Competencies

• Installation Guide

• Lecture 1 Files

• Lab 0 Files

Class #2 (1/22) Jupyter - Loadtxt, Array Indexing, Linear Fit

• Lecture 2 Files

Class #3 (1/27) - Data Analysis I. Distributions & Simulated experiments:

• Lecture 3 Files

• handout on binomial distribution

Class #4 (2/3) - Data Analysis II. Gaussian & Poisson distributions: Probability that random noise caused a result

• Lecture 4 Jupyter Notebook (right click link and save file)

Class #6 (2/17) - Data Analysis IV. Curve Fitting and Residuals

• Lecture 6 Jupyter Materials (zip file)

Class #7 (2/24) - Intro to Scientific Papers

• Latex paper template with bibliography: templateWithBibAll.zip, Overleaf
• Outline Worksheet: Journal Paper Narrative (notice that the sections flow down the left side then up the right side)

Useful references

• Strunk and White: Elements of Style
• The Elements of Scientific style

HW Assignments

• HW1

• HW2

• HW3

• HW4 and HW4 data files

Experiments

• Big G: Intro (M. Ligare), Sect5-4 Damped Oscillations [J.R. Taylor, Class. Mechanics], Pasco Manual (student version - detailed instructions removed)
• Michelson: Guidelines for PHYS 310 students (by T.Solomon), Jenkins & White Ch 13 , Hecht Ch 7 , Hecht Ch 9 , M4 Interferometer Manual (Note: different interferometer)
• NMR: Basic theory of NMR stuff, Getting started manual, Introduction part of manual , Instrument part of manual, Specifications part of manual, Experiments part of manual, Article where the group measures T1 and T2 for some samples.
• Ising: Ising Model & Metropolis Intro (read to get started), Ising Model Jupyter Template, Lecture Notes by Richard Fitzpatrick (UT Austin) about Ising Model (read for additional background and more advanced project ideas).
• X-ray: General overview and tasks for X-Ray Project II (focusing on crystallography) Crystallography reading from Ashcroft and Mermin. Intro to X-ray apparatus and getting started. Debye-Scherrer (Powder) technique. Which planes -- denoted by Miller indices -- are visible for different cubic structures..

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