PHYS 401 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Schedule

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Week of # of Weeks Lab Title Downloads Point Value
January 20 1 Introduction to Classical Physics (PHYS 401) Course
(No Lecture this week - MLK Holiday)
Write-up
Error analysis I
Lab Notebook and Report manual
Sample report
Curve fitting (OriginLab site)
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January 27 1 Transients in RLC Circuits Write-up
Origin v8.6 manual
Fitting_slide1
Fitting_slide2
50 points
February 3 1 Frequency domain analysis of linear circuits using synchronous detection. RLC lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up
SR830 Manual
Scofield paper
100 points
February 10 1 Pulses in transmission lines Frequency analysis lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up 100 points
February 17 1 of 2 Millikan Oil Drop Experiment / Week 1 Transmission lines lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up
PASCO manual
Millikan1
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February 24 2 of 2 Millikan Oil Drop Experiment / Week 2 100 points
March 2 1 of 2 Torsion Oscillator / Week 1 Millikan oil drop lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up --
March 9 2 of 2 Torsion Oscillator / Week 2 100 points
March 16 Spring break --
March 23 1 Hall Probe Measurement of Magnetic Fields Torsion oscillator lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up
Mathematica workbook (v8)
100 points
March 30 1 of 2 Qualitative Studies with Microwaves / Week 1 Hall probe lab report should be submitted electronically not later than 11:59pm Thursday. Write-up --
April 6 2 of 2 Microwave Cavities / Week 2 Write-up 150 points
April 13 1 of 3 Final Project - AC Measurement of Magnetic Susceptibility / Week 1 Microwave lab report should be submitted electronically not later than midnight of your Lab day. Notebooks should be submitted in the beginning of the Lab section Write-up
SR830 Manual
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April 20 2 of 3 Final Project - AC Measurement of Magnetic Susceptibility / Week 2 --
April 27 3 of 3 Final Project - AC Measurement of Magnetic Susceptibility / Week 3 300 points
May 4 No lab
  Final Project Reports due on Sunday, May 10th at 11:59 p.m.
Reports should be submitted to
https://my.physics.illinois.edu/courses/upload/.
Total: 1000 points