PHYS 4211
Laboratory Physics I

Course Information
Spring 2016

Prof. Thomas Coan

• Laboratory Sessions: TBA in 2 Fondren Science.
• Laboratory Instructor: Professor Thomas E. Coan rm 47 Fondren Science
  
• Contact:
  • Call me at 768-2497, or
  • leave a note in the Physics Department Office - 102 Fondren Science, or
  • send me e-mail: coan@smu.edu
  
  
• Required Texts
  
  The Art of Electronics, 2/e.
  P. Horowitz and W. Hill
  Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-37095-7.
  
  Student Manual for the Art of Electronics
  T.C. Hayes and P. Horowitz
  Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-37709-9.
  

  An Introduction to Error Analysis, 2/e.
  J.R Taylor
  University Science Books, ISBN 0-035702-75-X.
  

• Course Overview
  
• Learning Outcomes
  
• Grading Policy
  
• Lab Schedule
  
• Instrumentation Assignments
  
• Instrumentation Notes
  

• How to Plot
  
• Homework Protocol
  
• Physics Write-ups
  
• Data Reduction and Error Analysis Assignments
  
• Homework Solutions

• Disability Accommodations
• Religious Observance
• Extracurricular Absences

  

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