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| Instructor: | Jones |
| e-mail: | mjones@physics.purdue.edu |
| Title: | Modern Physics Lab |
| Offering: | Fall 2008, Class 2, cr. 2 |
| Room : | Phys 346 |
| Time : | Section 1 - 1:30-3:20 Tuesday |
| Section 2 - 3:30-5:20 Tuesday | |
| Section 3 - 1:30-3:20 Wednesday | |
| Section 4 - 3:30-5:20 Wednesday | |
| Section 5 - 1:30-3:20 Thursday | |
| Section 6 - 1:30-3:20 Friday | |
| Office: | Phys 378/337, Monday, 12:00 - 2:00 or by appointment. |
| TA's: | Tian Shen (Sections 1, 3, 4) and Tony Clevenger (Sections 2, 5, 6) |
| Office hours: Monday, 12:00-2:00 room 346. | |
| Prerequisites: | Phys 241/ Phys 272/ Phys 272H |
| 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. | |
| Distribution of final grades. |
