Meets Tuesday,Thursday 14:00-16:50 Physics Room 5, 116
Instructor: Prof. Keith Lidke
Room 1164, Physics and Astronomye-mail: klidke@unm.edu
phone: (505)277-0302
Teaching Assistant: Mohammadreza Ghasemkhani
e-mail: mrghasem@unm.eduYou must accomplish 4 out of these 5 laboratories. Labs 1 and 2 are mandatory.
LAB 1: Mechanical Practices in Experimental Sciences
LAB 2: Experiments in Nuclear Physics
LAB 3: Speed Measurement by Optical Technique
LAB 5: Holographic Interferometry
LAB 6: Double Slit Diffraction of Single Photons
Technical Notes
Homework Assignments
Homework #1
Homework #2
Safety
The safety document that students must sign before working in the lab.Laser Safety
Grading
Grades will be assigned based on the following:
Notebooks and performance (20%)
You must keep a detailed lab notebook, independent of your lab partner. You will also be graded on your methodology, knowledge of the equipment and problem solving skills as demonstrated in the lab.Lab reports (50%)
You are required to submit a lab report for labs 2,3 and 4. These reports are due two weeks after the completion of the laboratory portion in class.Please read and follow the guidelines for lab reports. Lab reports must be typed with figures included in the report as for submission to a professional journal. If necessary, hand drawings may be scanned and included.Final oral presentation (20%)
During the last week of class, each student will present one of his/her written labs as a talk to the class.Homework (10%)
A few exercises in statistical analysis and parameter estimation will be given throughout the semester.Reference Material
MATLAB Examples
FitExample.mLSQfunc.m
CRLBExample.m
X2TestExample.m
GenRandomNumbers.m
GenPoisson.m
MultiVariateNormal.m
Other
Fundamental Physical Constants from NISTThe NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
Periodic Table of the Elements
Table of Isotopes
TEK Application notes for oscilloscopes
PARTICLE DATA (PDG)
Physcial Reference Data (NIST) Wolfram integrals
Physical Review
LANL preprint archive
www.mathtools.net collection of software including matlab
GNU freeware statistics tools for matlab
LBNL Isotopes Data
The Art of Scientific Presentation
Dazzle 'em with Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation
IGERT Seminar Evaluation Summary