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| − | <h2> Course Director</h2>
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| − | <p>Matthew George</p>
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| − | <p>122 Petrie</p>
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| − | <p>mgeorge@yorku.ca</p>
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| − | <h2>Teaching Assistants</h2>
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| − | <tr><td> Adam Carew</td> <td> Kosuke Kato </td> </tr>
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| − | <tr><td> Petrie </td> <td> 309 PSE </td> </tr>
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| − | <h1>Schedule</h1>
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| − | <tr><td width=150><b>Labs</b></td> <td width=100>2:30pm - 5:30pm</td> <td width=150>Mondays and Tuesdays </td> <td width=70>Petrie 226 </td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td><b>Lecture</b></td><td>3:30pm - 4:20pm</td><td>Fridays</td><td>CB 120</td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td><b>Tutorial</b></td><td>4:30pm - 5:20pm</td><td>Fridays</td><td>CB 120</td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td><b>Office Hours</b></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td><i>Course Director</i></td><td>2:30pm - 3:30pm</td><td>Wednesdays</td><td>Petrie 122</td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td><i>Teaching Assistants</i></td><td>T.B.D.</td><td>Fridays</td><td>T.B.D</td></tr>
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| − | <p>Consult the [[Media:PHS4061Schedule2013.pdf|Schedule Calendar]] for detailed information on lab sessions, due dates, and lecture and tutorial dates.</p>
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| − | <h1>Grades</h1>
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| − | <tr><td width=150>Lab Reports</td><td width=50>65%</td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td>Homework</td><td>10%</td></tr>
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| − | <tr><td>Final Exam</td><td>25%</td></tr>
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| − | <h1>Course Content</h1>
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| − | <p>Students will be exposed to common a data analysis tutorial (based on
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| − | Mathematica) during the fIrst two weeks of the term. Subsequently, students will work in groups of two and cycle through 9
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| − | experiments related to laser spectroscopy. Since there are 10 groups of two, and only 9 experiments, each group will enjoy one week without performing a laboratory exercise. <b>Note that this does not change the due date for your reports.</b></p>
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| − | <p>Laboratory work will include pre-lab exercises, data analysis, interpretation, and answers to specifIc questions in the manual. Reports do not require extensive written descriptions. <b>Mathematica should be used for all data analysis.</b></p>
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| − | <p>The laboratory component of the course emphasizes experimental techniques related to laser spectroscopy and hands-on skills.</p>
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| − | <p>The lecture component introduces theoretical concepts related to
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| − | instrumentation such as gas lasers, diode lasers, laser beam propagation,
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| − | Fabry -Perot resonators, electro-optic modulators, acousto-optic
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| − | modulators and optical detectors.</p>
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| − | <p>The tutorials cover theoretical concepts related to laboratory experiments.</p>
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| − | <h2>Textbook</h2>
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| − | <p>The principal resource is a comprehensive laboratory manual that can be
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| − | purchased from the physics department office (Petrie 128).</p>
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| − | <p>Abbreviated notes for lectures and tutorials can be obtained from the
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| − | course web site: http://datamac.phys.yorku.ca/</p>
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| − | <p>There is no textbook. A useful list of references is included below.</p>
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| − | <h2>Lab Reports</h2>
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| − | <p>The grade for lab reports will be based on attendance and content.</p>
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| − | <p>The first lab report is related to the data analysis tutorial that will be
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| − | completed over three, 3-hour lab sessions. Subsequent experiments will
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| − | each involve two, 3-hour lab sessions.</p>
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| − | <p>The requirements and format for lab reports are clearly specified in the
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| − | section titled "Format of Lab Reports" in the laboratory manual.</p>
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| − | <p><b>Graduate students are required to complete additional exercises.</b></p>
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| − | <p>Please consult TAs if the requirements are not clear.</p>
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| − | <p>The first lab report (on the Mathematica tutorial) requires submission in
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| − | hardcopy and in electronic format. Part of the grade for this report will
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| − | depend on the functionality of the Mathematica notebooks that students
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| − | will submit in electronic form. All other labs require only hard copy
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| − | submissions.</p>
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| − | <h2>Due Dates</h2>
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| − | <p>Pre-lab exercises and lab reports should be submitted to the TAs in
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| − | PSE 226 by 2:30 PM, at the beginning of lab sessions. Please see
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| − | specified due dates for lab reports in the Schedule section above.</p>
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| − | <p>Lab reports submitted by 4:30 PM on the day after the due date will
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| − | incur a penalty of 10%. Two days after, a penalty of 25%. Three days or more, a mark of zero will be assigned. Late lab reports can be submitted in the Tuesday lab session, or in Petrie 128.</p>
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| − | <p>Exceptions will require the approval of the instructor.<b> Exceptions will be granted only under exceptional circumstances.</b></p>
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| − | <p><b>TAs will not accept e-mail submission of lab reports.</b></p>
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| − | <p>Graded reports will generally be returned one week after the due date.</p>
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| − | <h2>Attendance</h2>
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| − | <p>TAs will record attendance. Students are expected to be present during the
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| − | entirety of all 3-hour lab sessions or until the laboratory work is
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| − | completed.</p>
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| − | <p><b>Unless special arrangements are made with the course instructor,
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| − | students arriving more than 10 minutes after the beginning of a
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| − | laboratory session will be deemed as being absent.</b></p>
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| − | <p>If a student is absent even for a single lab session or leaves a lab session
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| − | before the work is completed, the score on the relevant lab report will be
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| − | zero. If a lab is completed within the 1 st session, TAs can certify that
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| − | attendance is not required during the 2nd session.</p>
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| − | <h2>Make-up Labs</h2>
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| − | <p>Makeup labs are intended to cover situations in which there is equipment
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| − | malfunction or factors beyond the control of students that prevented the
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| − | completion of an experiment and in cases where approval from the course
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| − | instructor is obtained due to medical reasons.</p>
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| − | <p>Students missing a lab session due to medical reasons are required to file
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| − | an attending physician statement with the course instructor (not to be
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| − | confused with a doctor's note) and demonstrate a convincing reason for
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| − | absence to schedule a makeup lab. The attending physician's statement
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| − | can be obtained from the registrar's office.</p>
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| − | <p>Students approved for a makeup lab by the course instructor should sign
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| − | up for a makeup lab with the TAs.</p>
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