PHS3000 · Experimental physics

Overview

In this unit, you will perform advanced laboratory experiments designed to broaden your experimental skills and physics knowledge. Tuition is provided for the following skills: writing research-grade laboratory notebooks, preparing concise scientific reports, fitting models to data, uncertainty analysis, signal processing. You will complete a series of experiments of their choice and present their findings in laboratory reports.

Areas of study: Astrophysics Physics

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Write a research-grade laboratory record of an experiment session.
2. Write reports in a similar format to a standard research journal article on the findings of a laboratory experiment.
3. Analyse experimental data using numerical modelling and other computational techniques.
4. Demonstrate awareness of scientific computing methods and visualisation.

Workload

The workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours spread across the semester (approximately 12 hours per week) - approximately an even mixture of attendance at scheduled activities and self-scheduled study time. Learning activities comprise a mixture of instructor directed and self-directed learning.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.