Physics 307L

    Professor Michael Gold

TA: Alexander Schwarz 

Course Description: The course consists of one lecture per week (Monday, 1:00 - 1:50 PM in room 5) and one lab period per week (either Monday or Wednesday, 2:00 - 4:50 PM).
Suggested Texts:  

methods of experimental physics: "Experiments in Modern Physics", Melissinos and Napolitano (important for senior lab as well)

statistical methods: "Data Analysis for Physical Science Students:, Lous Lyons (my personal favorite)

"Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences", P. Bevington, D. Robinson (the updated classic)

•  Course Schedule and Lecture Notes
• Lab Manual  
• Lab Schedule
• Guidlines for Lab Notebooks
• Guidlines for Lab Reports 
• Fitting a line 

• chisquare cdf calculator   IMPORTANT: The CDF is the "cumulative distribution function". The usual "p-value" or confidence level you should report (big good, small bad) is 1-cdf 
• Matlab Example Scripts 

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REFERENCE MATERIALS: 

• Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST 
• The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty 
• Periodic Table of the Elements 
• Table of Isotopes 
• TEK Application notes for oscilloscopes 
• PARTICLE DATA (PDG) 
• Physcial Reference Data (NIST) 
• Wolfram integrals 
• Physical Review 
• LANL preprint archive 
• www.mathtools.net collection of software including matlab 
• GNU freeware statistics tools for matlab 

Dr. G's homepage

this page is http://www-hep.phys.unm.edu/~gold/phys307L/  
Wednesday, August 16, 2006