Physics 344 & 462: Experimental Physics I & II

Spring 2009

 

Instructor: Professor Britton Plourde

  • Office: 223 Physics Building
  • Phone: x8967
  • email: bplourde<at>phy.syr.edu
  • office hours: by appointment

Teaching assistants:

  • Levon Vogelsang -- lvogelsa<at>phy.syr.edu
  • Shiliyang Xu -- sxu01<at>syr.edu

Scheduled course time -- 2:15 - 5:15PM MWF

 

Location: Room 377 Physics Building

Course content

General procedure for labs (.pdf file)

Announcements

April 27, 2009

 

*Last class is Monday, April 27. We will have our remaining 344 presentations starting at 2:30.

*Lab notebooks for Experiment #5 and second lab report are due May 4. These can be left on the table in the front of room 377 or in Prof. Plourde's mailbox.

*Since we are running a bit behind schedule, we will drop the lower of your two lab report grades (PHY344).

 

PHY344 -- Introductory Measurement and Error Analysis Project (.pdf file)

PHY462 -- Introductory Measurement and Error Analysis Project (.pdf file)

 

*Introductory Error Analysis homework (all problems from Taylor textbook, second edition) -- due Friday, Jan. 23

PHY344: 2.23, 3.7, 4.9, 4.15, 4.18, 5.36

PHY462: 3.7, 3.45, 4.9, 4.15, 5.12, 5.36

Experiments (with links to .pdf descriptions; *check for updates throughout semester):