In the limited time available you will learn some of these techniques while performing experiments which you have chosen. It is assumed that you will acquire some degree of skill as you attempt to perform a good physics experiment using and understanding the concomitant techniques. The future theorist has here a unique opportunity to get first-hand insight into the world of your future experimental colleague and to explore the experimental aspects and techniques of the field into which he intends to go. If you are going to be an exp erimentalist, it is our belief that in this lab you will learn both some physics and some techniques that you otherwise would not and that will be useful to you. Some Academic Guidelines For the purposes of the course it will be assumed that you are experimentalist.
Emphasis is on independent work.
This implies that you should be able to demonstrate to the instructor's satisfaction the actual set-up and operation of the experimental appar atus. This should be considered at every phase of the experiment. The number of experiments you will perform during this semester is not rigidly fixed. Nominally, the number of experiments you are required to do is two in both PHYS 621 and PHYS 429. However, one of these experiments can consist of the extension of a previous experiment.