Here are the nuts & bolts for how the course will run.
Everyone will do the Gamma Cross Sections experiment as a warm-up during Week 1. Students will work individually in the lab.
Students will work in pairs on a larger project for the rest of the quarter.
Experiment | Students |
Optical Pumping | Rossoneri |
Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Shiheng & Sihan |
Compton Scattering | Joseph & Hanwen |
The pages below are considered essential reading for students in PHYS 334. 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.
Proper data analysis is a must for this course. You are free to use whatever software you are comfortable with, but the resources below provide some specific information for those who are just starting out or who need a refresher. Below are several information pages and full tutorials:
Also, you may find it useful to typeset your reports professionally in LaTeX. If you aren't familiar with LaTeX, we link below to an assignment used in PHYS 211 that is used to get students up and running very quickly.
We have developed many pages of supplemental material that can serve as references as you work in the lab or write your reports.
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