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| Instructor: | Jones |
| e-mail: | mjones@physics.purdue.edu |
| Title: | Modern Physics Lab |
| Offering: | Fall 2009, Class 2, cr. 1 |
| Room: | Phys 346 |
| Time: | Section 1 - 1:30-3:20 Tuesday - Tien Shen |
| Section 2 - 3:30-5:20 Tuesday - Daniel Merrill | |
| Section 3 - 1:30-3:20 Wednesday - Daniel Merrill | |
| Section 4 - 3:30-5:20 Wednesday - Dustin Hemphill | |
| Section 5 - 1:30-3:20 Thursday - Jianguang Guo | |
| Section 7 - 9:30-11:20 Wednesday - Daniel Merrill | |
| Section 8 - 9:30-11:20 Thursday - Wan-Ju Li | |
| Instructor's office: | Phys 378/337, Monday, 12:00 - 2:00 or by appointment. |
| TA's: | Tian Shen (Section 1), office/hours TBD |
| Daniel Merrill (Sections 2, 3, 7), office/hours TBD | |
| Dustin Hemphill (Section 4), office/hours TBD | |
| Jianguang Guo (Section 5), office/hours TBD | |
| Eric Brown (Section 8), office/hours TBD | |
| Prerequisites: | Phys 24100/Phys 27200 |
| Text: | Lab manual PLU: 7558 |
| Available from the Copy Center in the Purdue Memorial Union | |
| Information handed out in class or provided on this web page supercedes any information in the lab manual. | |
| Lab notebook: | Avery-Dennison 43-648 |
| Description: | Students will conduct some of the most important experiments that have guided our understanding of physics over the past century. In doing so they will develop their ability to collect and analyse experimental data, to interpret their results and to present their findings and conclusions drawn from them in a clear, concise and convincing way. |
| Schedule: | is here |
| Grading: | 15% e/m lab report |
| 15% First lab notebook reading | |
| 15% Photoelectric effect lab report | |
| 15% Second notebook reading | |
| 20% Compton scattering lab report | |
| 20% Final notebook reading | |
| Grades assigned by TA's will be re-scaled to a consistent mean and mapped to a +/- letter grade by the professor. | |
| Disclaimer: | In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised semester calendar or other circumstances beyond the instructor's control. Here are ways to get information about this course: |
| Course web page: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~mjones/phys34000 | |
| Instructor's e-mail: mjones@physics.purdue.edu | |
| Instructor's phone: 765-496-2464 |
