All students will attend two mandatory lab sessions, perform one mandatory experiment on counting
statistics (one week) and do two additional experiments of your choice (4 weeks per experiment) to be completed over the quarter. A student may work with up to 2 partners, though each student writes his or her own lab report. The experiments are listed to the right. Lab work during non-class times M-F 9-5 may be necessary in order to complete your experiment. Enter through Roessler 156. Work at night at the campus observatory will be arranged on clear nights, with teams of about 4 students.
See the Reports page for guidance on how to write the lab reports. Experiment reports are due on dates as shown on the Calendar. They should be written in the general style of a journal article, with Abstract, Introduction, Theoretical background, Experimental method, Results and Analysis, Discussion, and Conclusion.
A useful table of Fundamental Constants.