Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS I

Department: Physics and Astronomy

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This two-semester course will familiarize students with basic experimental techniques that are common to all academic and industrial research laboratories. Topics will include lab safety, mechanical design, computer-based data acquisition and experimental control, laboratory electronics, vacuum technology, optics, thermal measurement and control, cryogenics and charged particle optics.