Course PHYS2350 Experimental Physics

G.S. Adams

Spring Semester 2006

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/Courses/PHYS2350/

• Syllabus
• Partners, sections, sequences – This gives the course time line.
• Lectures – This is mostly a repeat of what is in Napolitano’s notes and/or the textbook.
• Lecture supplements – Useful handouts.  Read everything!
• Matlab_examples – I inherited these from long ago.  They are useful examples but they may be obsolete and/or incomplete.  Do not use them blindly!
• Software_for_equipment – Several experiments need data translators, etc.
• Additional_source_material – You will not need any of this but they are still useful.  This is also where I put instructions for unused experiments.
• Experiment_notes – Brief instructions for each lab. are in “Instructions.doc”.  Additional reading is required!  Handouts for new experiments are also here as "notes_****.pdf".
• Here are a couple of famous papers to study: Parker, Goldhaber.

• Labs. start the week of 30 Jan. in Science Center 3C14.