Meets Tuesday,Thursday 14:00-16:50 Physics Room 5, 116
Instructor: Prof. Keith Lidke
Room 1140, Physics and Astronomye-mail: klidke@unm.edu
phone: (505)277-0302
Teaching Assistant: Qufei Gu
e-mail: zyx88@unm.eduYou must accomplish 5 out of these 6 laboratories. Labs 1, 2a, and 2b are mandatory.
LAB 1: Mechanical Practices in Experimental Sciences
LAB 2a: Experiments in Nuclear Physics: Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
LAB 2b: Experiments in Nuclear Physics: Muon Lifetime
LAB 3: Speed Measurement by Optical Technique
LAB 5: Holographic Interferometry
LAB 6: Double Slit Diffraction of Single Photons
Technical Notes
Homework Assignments and Lab Reports
Updated Guide for 493L Lab Reports: Guide for Lab Reports.pdf
Homework #1 (Corrected!). Due February 8. HW1_data.mat
Lab Report #1 Due February 15.
Lab Report #2 Due March 7. Submit via e-mail with subject '493L Lab Report 2'
Lab Report #3 Due April 8. Submit via e-mail with subject '493L Lab Report 3'. Please name your report 'LastName_Report3.pdf'
Lab Report #4 Due April 25. Submit via e-mail with subject '493L Lab Report 4'. Please name your report 'LastName_Report4.pdf'
Lab Report #5 Due May 9. Submit via e-mail with subject '493L Lab Report 5'. Please name your report 'LastName_Report5.pdf'
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. Guide for Lab Notebooks.pdfLab 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 Guide for Lab Reports.pdf 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. Here is an Example ReportHomework (20%)
A few exercises in statistical analysis and parameter estimation will be given throughout the semester.Final oral presentation (10%)
During the last week of class, each student will present one of his/her written labs as a talk to the class. Presentation TipsReference Material
MATLAB Examples
UNM Matlab Download/InstallPowerMeterExample.m
guideExample.m guideExample.fig
DistributionExamples.m
StandardError.m
CLTExample.m
FitExample.m
LSQfunc.m
CRLBExample.m
CRLBExample_ExpDecay.m LL_ExpDecay.m
X2TestExample.m
GenRandomNumbers.m
GenPoisson.m
PoissonAsGauss.m
ErrorProp1.m
MultiVariateNormal.m
PredictiveInterval.m
Other
My Lecture Notes on StatisticsInstrumentInterfaces.pdf
NI-VISA National Instruments Virtual Instrument Software Architecture. NI-VISA includes the NI Measurement and Automation Explorer.
http://labjack.com/support/u3/users-guide/4 "
http://www.cplusplus.com "
http://www.cprogramming.com "
Spectrum Techniques "
Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
The 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