ADVANCED LABORATORY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PHYSICS 307 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness + Lab Breadth - Physical Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct experiments collaboratively within a team and identify an appropriate conceptual framework to model experimental data. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the use of instrumentation and measurement techniques employed in an experimental investigation, including the identification of systematic and random uncertainties related to those measurements. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Troubleshoot experimental apparatus, refine measurements, and improve apparatus design using a consequential and logical approach. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze data by creating appropriate plots and inferring physical information from them through qualitative inspection and model fitting. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Perform uncertainty analysis using standards accepted in the scientific community. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Maintain laboratory notebooks of adequate quality for beginning graduate-level research, ensuring that experimental details and data are recorded in an organized and usable manner. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Utilize a lab notebook as a tool for organizing more complex experimental investigations and for effectively communicating results with integrity, both orally and in writing. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Synthesize all information gathered from data, including results and uncertainties, to make clear, data-driven conclusions. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Conduct experiments collaboratively within a team and identify an appropriate conceptual framework to model experimental data. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the use of instrumentation and measurement techniques employed in an experimental investigation, including the identification of systematic and random uncertainties related to those measurements. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Troubleshoot experimental apparatus, refine measurements, and improve apparatus design using a consequential and logical approach. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze data by creating appropriate plots and inferring physical information from them through qualitative inspection and model fitting. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Perform uncertainty analysis using standards accepted in the scientific community. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Maintain laboratory notebooks of adequate quality for beginning graduate-level research, ensuring that experimental details and data are recorded in an organized and usable manner. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Utilize a lab notebook as a tool for organizing more complex experimental investigations and for effectively communicating results with integrity, both orally and in writing. Audience: Undergraduate 8. Synthesize all information gathered from data, including results and uncertainties, to make clear, data-driven conclusions. Audience: Undergraduate