This is an outline of what we will cover in the classroom. The three homework assignments will be posted here. I've indicated the relevant sections of the course notes along with the topic.
| Date | Topic | Notes | Homework Due | ||
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| Mon | Jan 12 | Measurement and Uncertainty MATLAB |
Sec.1.1-1.3; Sec.6.1-6.2 Appendix D |
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| Wed | Jan 14 | Gravity and the Pendulum | Chapt.7 | ||
| Fri | Jan 16 | Propagation of Error | Sec.6.3 | Assignment 1 | |
| Mon | Jan 19 | HOLIDAY | |||
| Wed | Jan 21 | Modeling The Faraday Effect |
Sec.1.3 Chapt.15 |
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| Fri | Jan 23 | Line Fitting | Sec.9.1-9.2 | Assignment 2 | |
| Mon | Jan 26 | Dielectric Constants of Gases | Chapt.8 | ||
| Wed | Jan 28 | Basic circuits Voltage Dividers and Filters |
Sec.2.1-2.3 Chapt.4; Sec.13.3.1 |
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| Fri | Jan 30 | NO CLASS | Assignment 3 | ||
| Mon | Feb 2 | Resistivity of Metals | Chapt.10 | ||
| Wed | Feb 4 | Distributions and Poisson Statistics |
Sec.9.4-9.5 Sec.18.2.1 |
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| Fri | Feb 6 | Radioactivity Experiments | Chapt.17; Chapt.18 | ||
| Mon | Feb 9 | Gamma Detectors and Positron Annihilation |
Chapt.17; Chapt.19 | ||
| Wed | Feb 11 | Compton Scattering | Chapt.20 | ||
| Fri | Feb 13 | NO CLASS | |||
| Mon | Feb 16 | HOLIDAY | |||
| Wed | Feb 18 | Atomic Spectroscopy | Chapt.12 | ||
| Fri | Feb 20 | Johnson Noise | Sec.13.2; Chapt.14 | ||