PHYS 21101-21102-21103

Course Administration


Course Calendar

The PHYS 21101 Autumn 2024 Course Calendar is available as a PDF download here.

Note the following:

  • Monday lecture section runs 3:30-4:20 pm in KPTC 120.
  • Tuesday and Thursday lab sections run 2:00-5:50 pm.
  • Wednesday and Friday lab sections run 1:30-5:20 pm.
  • All assignments are due at 5:00 pm on the due date shown.

Contact Information

Experiment Assignments

Essential Course Reading


The pages below are considered essential reading for students in PHYS 211. You should look over and understand everything in these pages on Day 1 of the course. Refer to them whenever you have any questions about how the course operates or what is expected for your work.

We have also developed many pages of supplemental material that can serve as references as you work in the lab or write your reports.


Initial Tutorials

During the first few weeks of Autumn Quarter, we will be using the following tutorials:

Autumn Quarter Lecture Schedule

Week Lecture
1 Course Introduction
2 Notebooks and Plots
3 Professor Collar: 1
4 Advice for Writing your Analysis
5 Professor Collar: 2
6 Professor Collar: 3
7 Review of Commonly-Seen Mistakes
8 Improving your Scientific Writing
- Thanksgiving Break
9 Professor Collar: 4
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