PHYS 496 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Materials for In Class Activities

The Up Goer Five Challenge

Instructions and teams

Literature Search

Instructions

• Bardeen
• Baym
• Kwiat
• Leggett
• Selvin
• Van Harlingen

Attributes & Values

List of words denoting attributes and values of physicists

Writing an Abstract

H. Alfven, "Existence of Electromagnetic-Hydrodynamic Waves," Nature 3805, 405–406 (1942).

Proper Referencing

Introduction, Planar Tunneling into Single Crystal LuNi₂B₂C, PHYS 496 alumnus, 2009

Evaluating Figures

Chapter 9, Communicating in Science, Scott Montgomery

Ethics Case Studies

• What about My Contribution? (Team 1)
• Who Should Be Authors? (Team 2)
• Data Selection & Manipulation (Team 3)
• Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (Team 4)
• Making a "Better" Figure (Team 5)
• Signing a Petition (Team 6)
• Tolerance and Civility (Team 7)