IU Physics P451, Experiments in Modern Physics, Spring 2003
Syllabus and Announcements

Announcements	Find here class announcements, latest at top. 12/03/03 Finish 4th core experiment today. Instructor evaluations will be done in class today. Presentations will be during class (1:30-4:30) next week in room 238. 11/13/03 Finish 3rd core experiment today. Report due 11/20. Begin 4th core experiment next week. Assignments are listed below. 11/6/03 Begin 3rd core experiment today. Assignments are listed below. Lab reports due for 2nd core experiment. 10/16/03 Logbooks have been checked and returned. Finish 1st core experiment. Writeup due next week, 10/23. 2nd core experiments have been assigned - see table below. Send me email if you are eager to do a certain experiment and I'll consider your request in the assignments. 10/9/03 Start 1st core experiment. Find latest writeups on experiments page. Leave logbooks for grading after class. 10/2/03 Do intro experiment 4. Core experiments start next week. Find your assignment below and prepare before class next time by finding the material for that experiment on the experiments page. 9/25/03 Homework 2 due, start (and finish) intro experiment 3. 9/18/03 Homework 1 due, start (and finish) intro experiment 2. 9/4/03 First Day of Class! See you at 1:25p in SW 125.
Syllabus	Week Date Activity 1 9/4 Intro, Begin 1st Introductory Experiment 2 9/11 Finish 1st Introductory Experiment 3 9/18 Homework 1 due, Do 2nd Introductory Experiment 4 9/25 Homework 2 due, Do 3rd Introductory Experiment 5 10/2 Do 4th (final) Introductory Experiment 6 10/9 Begin 1st Core Experiment. 7 10/16 Finsh 1st Core Experiment. Report due 10/23. 8 10/23 1st Core Exp. report due. Begin 2nd Core Experiment. 9 10/30 Guest Instructor!, Finish 2nd Core Experiment. Report due 11/6. 10 11/6 2nd Core Exp. report due. Begin 3rd Core Experiment. 11 11/13 Finish 3rd Core Experiment. Report due 11/20. 12 11/20 3rd Core Exp. report due. Begin 4th Core experiment. 13 12/4 Finish 4th Core experiment. Instructor Evaluations. 14 12/11 Final presentations on 4th Core experiment. SW 238 - 1:30-4:30. We will go in alphabetical order, each person will have 15mins + 5mins for questions. We'll have a transparency machine and a computer projector.
Introductory Experiments Team Assignments	For the first 5 weeks of class we'll work in teams, so as to complete the the introductory experiments. Here are the team assignments for each week: Assigned Experiment for... Team Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 JD/WG Vacuum EM Pulses Poisson Stats gamma-rays CL/LM Mag. Fields PC-DAQ EM Pulses Poisson Stats NR/MS gamma-rays Vacuum PC-DAQ EM Pulses DV/MW Poisson Stats Mag. Fields Vacuum PC-DAQ JT/SW EM Pulses gamma-rays Mag. Fields Vacuum
Core Experiment Assignments	For the latter weeks of class we'll work on the core experiments as individuals, here are the experimental assignments. Assigned Experiment for... Person Weeks 6-7 Weeks 8-9 Weeks 10-11 Weeks 12-13 JD 2 Photon Optical Pumping Fabry-Perot Cosmic Rays WG Cosmic Rays Black-Body Hall Effect Fabry-Perot CL Chaos Cosmic Rays Black-Body Beta Spectroscopy LM Black-Body Chaos Cosmic Rays Electron Physics NR Faraday Effect 2 Photon Electron Physics Optical Pumping MS Fabry-Perot Beta Spectroscopy 2 Photon Black-Body JT Electron Physics Fabry-Perot Beta Spectroscopy Hall Effect DV Hall Effect Faraday Effect Optical Pumping 2 Photon MW Beta Spectroscopy Hall Effect Faraday Effect Chaos SW Optical Pumping Electron Physics Chaos Faraday Effect

Rex Tayloe
Last modified: Thu Dec 4 20:21:25 EST 2003