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0321-2121-03 | Physics Laboratory B1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Second year laboratory course in Physics. In each semester every pair of students will conduct three 2-week sets of experiments in various fields in physics. In the final week, each student will reproduce a short version of one of these experiments, working from his/her lab notebook.
Learning outcomes – short description (if you don’t have LOs, then don’t write anything in this part)
The students will learn how to design and conduct an experiment, how to obtain a desired accuracy in measurement, and how to keep a laboratory notebook. In addition, they will learn how to reduce and analyze their data and how to report the results orally.
List of experiments:
Astrophysics, Dark matter, Rutherford scattering, Spectrometry grating and prism, Speed of sound, Supersonic waves, Zeeman effect, Light polarization, Faraday effect and optical activity, Photoelectric effect, Frank-Hertz effect, Laser and its applications, Two-slits interference, Ferromagnetism, Curie temperature, Superconductivity, Spatial Light Modulator and Fourier transformation, Thermoluminescence, Black-body radiation, Characterizing Star Clusters
Assessment: coursework and grade structure
Three pairs of two weeks experiments – 70%
Per experiment:
10% - readiness for background material
10% - participation in contribution in the experiment
10% - practical use of experimental techniques
10% - independence and originality
10% - answering to questions during the experiments
30% - laboratory notebook
10% - quality and content of oral presentation
10% - answering to question during oral presentation
Last week: reproducing randomly chosen experiment – 30%