Spring 2015 - PHYS 131 D400
Physics Laboratory I (2)
Class Number: 2377
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 13, 2015: Wed, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Marco Bieri
mbieri@sfu.ca
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Corequisites:
PHYS 121 or 126 should be taken concurrently or may precede; or by permission of the department.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Elementary experiments in optics, electricity, and mechanics that are designed to augment the general survey courses. Students with credit for PHYS 130 or 141 may not take PHYS 131 for further credit. Quantitative.
COURSE DETAILS:
The main objectives of the lab are:
1. To offer the student experience in carrying out and making a written description of quantitative physical experiments, with due recognition of systematic and random errors.
2. To familiarize the student with some basic lab instruments that are commonly used in making physical measurements.
3. To illustrate how some basic physical principles can be applied to specific real situations in the lab.
This course involves a 4-hour laboratory each week. An experiment is done on each of 10 weeks, and the course concludes with a practical test. The experiments include: the simple pendulum, direct current circuits, alternating current and the oscilloscope, the magnetic field, ray optics, reflection, and concave mirrors, refraction and thin lenses, polarization and colour, and wave optics and diffraction and atomic spectroscopy.
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
Department Undergraduate Notes:
Students who cannot write their exam during the course's scheduled exam time must request accommodation from their instructor in writing, clearly stating the reason for this request, before the end of the first week of classes.
Registrar Notes:
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