Course overview
This advanced experimental course enables students to engage in work-related activities which enhance their skills in data collection and analysis through engagement with experiments in selected areas including atomic and nuclear physics, optics and electromagnetism.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe key components of analogue electronics including transistors and operational amplifiers and their use in phase sensitive detection, electronic filtering and waveform generation
- Conduct experiments to investigate important physics phenomena
- Use a digital oscilloscope that is interfaced to a computer to optimally sample a waveform and utilise fast Fourier techniques to understand the signal
- Keep a scientific record of experimental work, analyse the results of experiments, and use appropriate techniques to estimate the experimental uncertainty associated with measurements, to reach non-trivial conclusions about the experiment
- Work cooperatively in a team to solve practical problems
- Use the tools, methodologies, language and conventions of physics to test and communicate ideas and explanations
Degree list
The following degrees include this course