PHYSICS 276: CLASSICAL PHYSICS LAB, SPRING 2013.

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Course supervisor:

Professor Michael Gershenson

Email: gersh (at) physics.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 445-5500 x 3180

Office: Serin W122

Office hours: Fridays 3:30 – 4:30 PM

Teaching Assistants:

Mr. Jianpeng Liu

Email: jpliu (at) physics.rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 445-5500 x 4735

Office: Serin E279

Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:00PM

Ms. Mridula Krishnapur

Email: mridu89 (at) gmail.com

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Class meets in Serin 106
LABS WILL BEGIN ON JANUARY 28, 2013

Section 1: Wed 12:00-3:00 Mridula Krishnapur

Section 2: Tue 3:20-6:20 Jianpeng Liu
Section 3: Mon 6:40-9:30 Michael Gershenson
Section 4: Tue 6:40-9:30 Jianpeng Liu
Section 5: Thu 6:40-9:30 Michael Gershenson
Section 6: Thu 3:20-6:20 Jianpeng 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.
• Each team (two students) will submit ONE report per experiment. In most cases, the lab reports can be finished during the lab and handed in at the end of the class period. The deadline for the report submission is within two days after finishing the experiment: e.g., if the experiment is done on Monday, the report should be submitted by Wednesday (late) afternoon. Lab reports will be graded on a 10 point scale.
• 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 22 – 25		NO LABS
Jan 28 – 31	(no Prelab)	1. Interference of Sound
Feb 4 - 7	Lab 2 Prelab	2. Ideal and Non-Ideal Gases
Feb 11 - 14	Lab 3 Prelab	3. Electrostatics
Feb 18 - 21		NO LABS
Feb 25- 28	Lab 4 Prelab	4. Electric Potential and Field
Mar 4 - 7	Lab 5 Prelab	5. Capacitance in RC Circuit
Mar 11 – 14	Lab 6 Prelab	6. Electric and Magnetic Forces
Mar 18 – 21		SPRING BREAK
Mar 25 – 28	Lab 7 Prelab	7. Magnetic Force on Current
Apr 1 – 4	Lab 8 Prelab	8. Ampere's Law
Apr 8 – 11	Lab 9 Prelab	9. Geometrical Optics
Apr 15 - 18	Lab 10 Prelab	10. Interference and Diffraction of Light
Apr 22 – 25		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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