Advanced Laboratories in Physics

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The students should plan and execute experimental work, after studying the physical concepts and theory associatedm with the experiment. They should assemble the experimental system with the available materialand should implement an adequate plan to measure the required parameters. The results should be analysed and the uncertainties associated with the measurements should be considered. Reports will be asked for a selected set of experiments and the maintenance of a laboratory logbook following usual research prectice will be encouraged.

Learning Outcomes

The students should be able to execute complex experiments in different physics subjects in both teaching and research laboratories. They should acquire technical skills in measurement, data collection and data analysis, together with the experimental skills needed to design and project new experiments, and make a critical analysis of the obtained results.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The students should perform experiments in several different areas of physics, as close as possible to actual scientific research. The experiments should cover a wide range of experimental techniques used in research in areas such as:

Nuclear Physics, Atomic Physics, Optics, Condensed Matter Physics.The students should acquire experimental

autonomy, so that, given an objective, they should be able to:

- search for technical and scientific information that is relevant for the experiment;

- structure the experiment assembly;

- perform the experiment;

- validate and analyse the data obtained;

- treat and compare the data with the literature or with theoretical models;

- present the results in a clear, precise manner and scientific format.

The experiments may be made in teaching or research laboratories, depending on the availability of the latter.

Head Lecturer(s)

Uladzimir Khomchanka

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 50.0%
Other: 50.0%

Bibliography

GL Squires, Practical physics, Cambridge Press, 2001

P Bevington and DK Robinson, Data reduction and error analysis for the physical sciences, McGraw Hill, 2002.