Advanced Physics Laboratories

 

Our advanced physics laboratories service Physics 441 and Physics 442, a required two-semester sequence of courses for students majoring in Physics at the Department of Physics at the University of Physics, Ann Arbor Campus.

 

TO OUR STUDENTS

Please download and read carefully the Fall_2009_Syllabus. You should be prepared for a fundamental difference in difficulty and phylosophy between this course and preceding physics laboratory courses. This is a "problem solving" experience, as distinct from a "cook-book" laboratory. You may need to teach yourself how to use and calibrate many different kinds of test equipment. You may have to search for a weak signal in the presence of noise. You may have to use statistical techniques to extract results from ambiguous data sets. Your success with the experiments, and with the course, will depend on the dedication and initiative that you apply to solving whatever puzzles arise. This is simply part of the reality and joy of the experimental method.

 

 
 

 

• Survey the experimental foundations of modern physics.
• Provide hands-on insight into material learned in advanced lecture courses.
• Survey instrumentation, data acquisition, and analysis methods employed in contemporary research and industrial laboratories.
• Perfect the presentation of scientific results in written and oral form.