Design Like a Physicist
Physics 398DLP, Spring 2022
3 credit hours
Face-to-face (but masked!), Friday afternoons, 1 pm - 5 pm, in Loomis 276.
Note that we'll meet online, via Zoom, during the first week of the semester.
Dean Bashir has asked faculty to distribute to students the information linked here.
Course documents
Course packet and in-class material
- ⚛ GG's data logger schematic for spring 2021
- ⚛ Very simple circuit with an Arduino, a BME680, and an LCD. (spring 2021, in class, week 1)
- ⚛ Course packet, including a C++/Python refresher
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2018 "How to Present a Physics Talk"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2019 "How to Write a Technical Report"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2020 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
- ⚛ Celia Elliott's spring 2021 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
- ⚛ Prof. Cynthia D'Angelo's fall 2019 presentation: "Collaboration"
Spring 2022 student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues
The following reports should comprise PowerPoint files of about ten slides, and be presented by all members of the group. See the Groups & projects page for the list of which group numbers are associated with which projects.- Week 3:
⚛ Electret microphones (group 1); - Week 4:
⚛ I2C (group 2); - Week 5:
⚛ GPS (group 3); - Week 6:
⚛ How an LSM9DS1 “9-axis” accelerometer works (group 4); - Week 7:
⚛ How a successive approximation ADC works (group 6); - Week 8:
⚛ BME680 T/P/RH sensors (group 1) - Week 9:
⚛ The Atmel ATmega2560 microcontroller (group 2);
Project reports
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⚛ I will post these at the end of the term.
