Physics 247 Laboratory
Lab sections will meet in 4136 Chamberlin Hall starting Monday, September 10.
Information (including the laboratory manual) regarding some of the labs can be found at badger.physics.wisc.edu
We will work in groups of ~3, and will switch groups after each exam.
You will be expected to have a lab notebook (different than your lecture notebook) and it will be left in the lab room at the end of lab – there will be no need to take your notebook home!
The lab notebook can be quadrille (i.e. graph paper) or a regular notebook, but quadrille paper looks a lot better!
Missing Lab: If you need to miss a lab you must let me know in advance (outside of extenuating circumstances) for the lab to be “excused.” An excused lab can be made up the following week during another scheduled lab time. Unexcused labs cannot be made up, and will count as a zero.
You might look at the lab before you come to lab if you expect to do well – you need to know what you’re doing before you get here.
Grading: labs will be graded on the basis of the notebooks, preparedness.
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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| 9:55 |
Lecture
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Lecture
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Lecture
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| 1:20 |
Lab 301
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Lab 302
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Discussion 601
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Discussion 602
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Discussion 603
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| 2:25 |
Lab 303
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| 5:40 |
| Week | Name |
Description
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| 10 Sept | MC-1a,b,c | Measurement & Error |
| 17 Sept | Collisions | |
| 24 Sept | Projectile Motion | |
| 1 Oct | Numerical simulations of simple motion | |
| 8 Oct | no lab | EXAM |
| 15 Oct | numerical simulations using leap frog integratin | |
| 22 Oct | Rotation Lab | |
| 29 Oct | Orbit equations in Cartesian Coordinates | |
| 5 Nov | IDL Tutorial | IDL Tutorial and Orbit Integration in cylindrical coordinates: Lagrangian Writeup , orbit.pro |
| 12 Nov | EXAM | |
| 19 Nov | - | Relativity 1 |
| 26 Nov | - | Thanksgiving |
| 3 Dec | - | Relativity 2 |
| 10 Dec | - | General Relativity GPS.PDF GPSPSsol.pdf |
Suggested format for Lab Report:
1. Write no more than 5 pages
2. Describe the physics goal
3. Describe the experimental method, with any necessary figures
4. Use your notes from the lab to present data, with any analysis plots or tables
5. Present conclusions