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PHYS 414 - Advanced Laboratory


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4NS, QFR, WADV

Each student attends two laboratory sessions per week and performs, semi-independently, five to six experiments chosen from the fields of atomic, nuclear, and elementary particle physics, condensed matter physics, and optics. Students must keep an organized laboratory notebook, turn in short reports describing the key results of each experiment, and write a longer paper describing one experiment in the form of a research publication.

Enrollment Limit: 14
Instructor: S. FitzGerald

Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes
Prerequisites & Notes: PHYS 314.



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