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PHYS 4210 3.0 Advanced Experimental Physics I

Selected advanced experiments in physics related to topics in solid state physics, atomic spectroscopy, microwaves, low-noise measurements, superconductivity, and nuclear and particle physics.

Course Director

Matthew George

122 PSE

mgeorge@yorku.ca

Office Hours: Come to my office anytime. I am always available to discuss matters relating to the course. If you cannot find me, send me an email to schedule a time to meet.

Teaching Assistants

Nikita Bezginov
309 Petrie
nibezg@yorku.ca

Prerequisite

• SC/PHYS 3210 6.0 or SC/PHYS 3220 3.0
• SC/PHYS 4061 3.0
• registration in an Honours Program in Physics or Astronomy.

Schedule

We will meet first for an orientation class at 10:30am on Monday September 9, 2013 in Bethune 228. We will not meet every week. Emails will be sent well in advance notifying you when an in-class session will be held.

First Lab Report Due	Friday September 27, 2013
Second Lab Report Due	Friday October 18, 2013
Third Lab Report Due	Friday November 8, 2013
Fourth Lab Report Due	Friday November 29, 2013
Presentations	Monday December 2, 2013
Oral Exam Times	T.B.A.

For your first lab report, I am offering a Lab Report Review, where you can schedule a time to come to my office so I can look at your completed (or nearly completed) lab report and offer some helpful comments before you submit the report to the TA for marking. You can sign-up up a lab review using the online system (see below) scheduled on or before September 24, 2013.

Reports are due by 4:30pm on the due date, and are to be handed in to Room 122 Petrie to either M. George or N. Balaskas. If neither is present, submit the report to Lauren in the Physics Office room 128 Petrie.

Grading Scheme

Students must complete 4 experiments with reports, an oral exam, and a presentation on a current experimental physics topic.

Each lab report will be graded out of 20. The marks for each lab report will be assigned as follows:

Abstract	2
Introduction/Theory	5
Procedure/Method	3
Results/Analysis	5
Discussion/Conclusion	4
References	1
Total	20

The Final Mark for the course will be assigned as follows:

Lab Reports 75%

Oral Exam15%

Presentation 10%

Penalties

• For each day late, your lab report will lose 10%. If the report is due Friday, and is handed in on Monday you will loose 20% from the mark for that report.
• If you come unprepared for a demonstration by the TA, you will loose 5%. You are expected to have read completely and have a basic idea of the experiment beforehand.
• If you do not show up for a scheduled demonstration within 10 minutes of the scheduled time, you will have to schedule a new time for a demonstration, and will suffer a 5% penalty for wasting the TAs time.

Laboratory Manual

To sign up for an experiment : Experiment Sign-up

Your username is your student number, and the password is studentnumberLastname (note the capitalization of the first letter of your last name).

Please submit a request to sign-up at least 24 hours before the time you wish to perform the lab. You will receive an email confirmation from the responsible TA confirming the time and date. Please show up prepared for the demo, and on time!

• How to Choose Experiments
• How to Write Reports
• Lab Safety

List of Experiments

Experiment	Location
Rutherford Scattering II	111 PSE	winter 2014
Coaxial Cable	126 PSE
Waveguides	123 PSE
Optical Fibers	126 PSE
He-Ne Lasers	123 PSE
Fourier Optics	126 PSE	winter 2014
Zeeman Effect	123PSE
Mass Spectrometer	123 PSE
Gamma Ray Spectroscopy	111 PSE
Johnson Noise	126 PSE
Semiconductors II	111 PSE
Electron Spin Resonance	126 PSE
Sonoluminescence	126 PSE
Muon Lifetime	123 PSE
Bell's Inequalities (COMING SOON!)	123 PSE	November 2013