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If you've never taken an advanced physics lab, this is how it works. Basically the professor listed on E-Bruno simply records the final grades on each lab and puts together your grade on E-Bruno, but he or she doesn't actually teach much. Instead, each lab (there are eight) is taught by individual professors.

Each lab has a lecture that goes with it, and most of the time you get the theory you need to do a major. You can do either a major or minor report on each lab, but you must choose three over the course of the semester to do a major with. In that case, be sure to take copious notes because the professors usually give you all the theory you need and your job is simply to put it into a coherent discussion and explain it some.

Most of the labs are incredibly difficult to do. It isn't because they're hard to understand. Instead it's due to the fact that each one has its own problems and issues that need to be worked out while you try to perform the lab - things like setting up a circuit correctly, getting equipment from the eighties to measure correctly, etc.

The lab reports themselves are frustrating as well. When you go to write the report you start to understand everything a lot better, which means you'll most likely have to go back and do it all over again - or at least get some data you missed. Error analysis is always difficult too because you usually must try to justify huge percent errors (errors above 10% were almost given, above 50% not uncommon, and above 100% sometimes).

The good news is that you are free to do the lab itself whenever you want. Furthermore, the deadlines on the lab reports are fairly slack. I know a lot of students didn't even turn in their reports until the last week of the semester (or some even beyond that). The problem, however, is this: the professors won't grade any labs until they have all the reports, so you usually don't know what you got on a report until after finals are over. Luckily, the grading is not harsh.

The list of experiments for this section when I took it were:

Superconductivity - Betanabhatla
Thevenin's Theorem - Holloway
R-C Filters - Holloway
Particle Scattering - Podairu
AC Resonance - Sowell
Differentiating and Integrating Circuits - Sabirianov
Magnetic Force - Holloway
Magnetic Torque - Woolf

At some point in the future I would like to rewrite my own lab guides for most of these since the handouts they give you are absolutely terrible. Check back on a few oth

Overall		Knowledge		Speech		Availability
Tangents		Homework		Exams		Grade Recieved	A
Class Taken Fall 2007

If you've never taken an advanced physics lab, this is how it works. Basically the professor listed on E-Bruno simply records the final grades on each lab and puts together your grade on E-Bruno, but he or she doesn't actually teach much. Instead, each lab (there are eight) is taught by individual professors.

Each lab has a lecture that goes with it, and most of the time you get the theory you need to do a major. You can do either a major or minor report on each lab, but you must choose three over the course of the semester to do a major with. In that case, be sure to take copious notes because the professors usually give you all the theory you need and your job is simply to put it into a coherent discussion and explain it some.

Most of the labs are incredibly difficult to do. It isn't because they're hard to understand. Instead it's due to the fact that each one has its own problems and issues that need to be worked out while you try to perform the lab - things like setting up a circuit correctly, getting equipment from the eighties to measure correctly, etc.

The lab reports themselves are frustrating as well. When you go to write the report you start to understand everything a lot better, which means you'll most likely have to go back and do it all over again - or at least get some data you missed. Error analysis is always difficult too because you usually must try to justify huge percent errors (errors above 10% were almost given, above 50% not uncommon, and above 100% sometimes).

The good news is that you are free to do the lab itself whenever you want. Furthermore, the deadlines on the lab reports are fairly slack. I know a lot of students didn't even turn in their reports until the last week of the semester (or some even beyond that). The problem, however, is this: the professors won't grade any labs until they have all the reports, so you usually don't know what you got on a report until after finals are over. Luckily, the grading is not harsh.

The list of experiments for this section when I took it were:

Cavendish Experiment - Podairu
Stefan-Boltzmann Law - Wilkins
Specific Heats of a Gas - Mei
Bohr Atom - Sabirianov
Franck-Hertz Experiment in Neon - Podairu
Chaos - Sowell
Damped Oscillations - Sowell
Driven Harmonic Motion - Woolf

At some point in the future I would like to rewrite my own lab guides for most of these since the handouts they give you are absolutely terrible. Check back later.

Overall		Knowledge		Speech		Availability
Tangents		Homework		Exams		Grade Recieved	A
Class Taken Fall 2007