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
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 55668
Section PR01
Size 60
Available 60
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