PHYSICS 276: CLASSICAL PHYSICS LAB, SPRING 2012.

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Course supervisor:

Professor Frank Zimmermann

Email: fmz at physics dot rutgers dot edu,
Telephone: 445-5500 Ext. 3153,

Office: Nanophysics Laboratory 204.
Office hour: Wednesday 3:30-4:30.

Teaching Assistant:

Mr. Jianpeng Liu

Email jpliu at physics dot rutgers dot edu

Office: Serin 279

Office hour: Thursday 11:00 am - 12:00

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Class meets in Serin 106
LABS WILL BEGIN ON JANUARY 23, 2012

Section 2: Tue 3:20-6:20; Zimmermann
Section 1: Wed 12:00-3:00; Zimmermann
Section 4: Mon 6:40-9:30; Liu
Section 5: Tue 6:40-9:30; Liu
Section 6: Thu 6:40-9:30; Liu

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Course Policies:

• Where possible, students will work on experiments in pairs. Each student will do ten experiments in the semester.
• Prelabs are due at the beginning of the lab. They will be graded on a 5 point scale.
• Lab reports will be graded on a 10 point scale. In most cases, the lab reports can be finished during the lab and handed in at the end of the class period. If not, the section instructor will give a due date. 
• Each experiment will be set up for a Monday-Thursday period in one week, and only for that time. It will be each student's responsibility to collect his/her data in that time. Make-up labs will not be offered.
• You may check your scores here.
• Letter grades will be assigned based on point accumulation. Letter grade boundaries will be established at the end of the term.

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Lab Schedule:

Dates	Prelab Exercise	Lab Manual
Jan 16 – 19		NO LABS
Jan 23 – 26	(no Prelab)	1. Interference of Sound
Jan 30- Feb 2	Lab 2 Prelab	2. Ideal and Non-Ideal Gases
Feb 6 -9	Lab 3 Prelab	3. Electrostatics
Feb 13 -16		NO LABS
Feb 20- 23	Lab 4 Prelab	4. Electric Potential and Field
Feb 27-Mar 1	Lab 5 Prelab	5. Capacitance in RC Circuit
Mar 5 – 8	Lab 6 Prelab	6. Electric and Magnetic Forces
Mar 12 – 15		SPRING BREAK
Mar 19 – 22	Lab 7 Prelab	7. Magnetic Force on Current
Mar 26 – 29	Lab 8 Prelab	8. Ampere's Law
Apr 2 – 5	Lab 9 Prelab	9. Geometrical Optics
Apr 9 – 12		NO LABS
Apr 16 - 19	Lab 10 Prelab	10. Interference and Diffraction of Light
Apr 23 – 26		NO LABS

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References for Error Analysis

• P. R. Bevington, "Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences", McGrawHill.
• John R. Taylor, "An Introduction to Data analysis", University Science Books.

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Students with disabilities

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