The purpose of this presentation is to help you produce a good final paper. The subject if the talk will be one of your experiments, decided by you and the instructor. The level an format will be similar to a contributed paper at an APS meeting. Attendance and a presentation at the seminar is required to pass the course. Make sure you have appropriate time scheduled for the selection of your experiments, the presentation of the proposals, the writing of the papers and their oral presentation.
Some instructors require that experiments be completed by a specific deadline.
Take note of the restrictions which are indicated, but no more than what one would find in any modern laboratory. The Coordinator, graduate assistant, and instructor are here to assist you in performing challenging experiments in physics. 429 PHYS 429 meets concurrently with PHYS 621 for a scheduled 5 hours per week instead of the 6 hours for PHYS-621. Although the courses meet concurrently, the standards for grading are different in the two courses. In particular, an undergraduate student is not expected to have the theoretical sophistication of the graduate student.