Physics 357: Intermediate Lab

SUNY Cortland

Spring 2016

Course Supplementals

Uncertainty

• Statistics
  • The free statistical software, R, can be downloaded from here. Once installed add packages using install.packages("packageName"), I recommend Hmisc and fastR.
  • Run this R script to see a bit of functionality (instructions appear as comments at the top of the file).
• Error Propagation
• Information and examples are available here and on blackboard.

Writing

• Lab write-up expectations
• Writing Examples
  • One example of a paper is this one on large rare water waves which is available in pdf format as well as a LaTeX format (with lots of unreadable images that you need to scroll past).
  • A much simpler example in pdf format and LaTeX format.
  • An example of a high quality student lab report.
  • Find many examples of papers from a discipline you find interesting at arXiv.org.
• LateX
• On-line LaTeX editor ShareLaTeX, create an account and you are ready to go.
• Downloadable LaTeX editor TexWorks is an editor/compiler for Miktex.
• LaTeX tutorials, a short tutorial and a not so short introduction.

Laboratories

Description	Documentation
Description	Documentation
Data Distributions	Lab 1a Block Dimension Data Radiation Data Histogram with Poisson or Binomial densities.
Goodness of Fit	Lab 1b
Least Squares	Lab 1c
Resonance	Lab 4
Optics
Speed of Light	Lab 5
Light and Lasers	Lab 6
Properties of Lenses	Lab 7
Microwave optics	Lab 11
Thermodynamics
Three Thermodynamics Experiments	Lab 12
Viscosity	Lab 9
Stirling Engine Efficiency	Lab 16
Modern Physics
Millikan Oil Experiment	Lab 13
e/m ratio for the electron	Lab 14
Franck Hertz	Lab 10 3B FranckHertz Manual
Meteor Craters	Lab 15

Final Exam Monday May 9 8-10am.