Physics 357: Intermediate Lab
SUNY Cortland
Spring 2018
Course SupplementalsUncertainty
- Statistics
- 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.
| 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 focus on exps. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 12 | Lab 11 |
| Thermodynamics | |
| Three Thermodynamics Experiments | Lab 12 |
| Viscosity | Lab 9 |
| Stirling Engine Efficiency | Lab 16 |
| Peltier Refrigerator You must do at least two experiments (P1 required). | Lab P1 (Introduction)
Lab P2 (Heat Engine Efficiency) Lab P3 (Refrigeration) Lab P4 (Heat pump efficiency) |
| Modern Physics | |
| Millikan Oil Experiment | Lab 13 |
| e/m ratio for the electron | Lab 14 |
| Franck Hertz | Lab 10
3B FranckHertz Manual |
| x-ray scattering | Pending regulatory
approval
X-ray Equipment Manual SUNY Cortland radiation training presentation |
| Meteor Craters | Lab 15 |