PHGN-315 Fall-2016

Revision as of 18:08, 29 August 2016

Course Information

Instructors: Félix Therrien ‎[felix.therrien@gmail.com]‎ ;Bradon Skogen [bskogen@mymail.mines.edu] ‎‎; Jacob Neumann ‎[jneumann@mymail.mines.edu]‎‎‎‎ and Frank Kowalski MH 438, phone (303) 273-3845, e-mail: fkowalsk@mines.edu Office hours Tuesday: 1-3 and Thursday 9-12.

Course Material

Syllabus

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Syllabus

Texts

Experimental physics text

How to Lie with Statistics

Feynman video: QED:The strange theory of light and matter

Optics text

Homework

ID numbers for class participation

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Sec. A ID numbers Sec. B ID numbers

Lab handouts

RLC lab

Feynman lecture on damped oscillations

RLC circuits

e/m lab

e/m measurement overview

Thermionic emission for e/m

e/m appartus manual

Spectroscopy lab

Spectroscopy appartus manual

Detector characterization lab

polarization overview (study the first figure and the animations)

understand Malus's Law and understand the animation of circular polarization

Cart speed lab

Meeting schedule for returned lab reports

Supplementary Information

Critical Thinking Link 1

Critical Thinking Link 2 (In this article, think of yourself as the one "writing a lab report," which is to be critically analyzed, rather than as a reader of some document)

point contact diode link

another point contact diode link

Measuring Intellectual Development

Grading Rubric for Model and Procedure sections

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Rubric for grading laboratory reports Rubric for grading model and procedure sections