Revision as of 20:07, 26 January 2014

Welcome to Advanced Physics Lab 2014!

Professor: Tobias Marriage (marriage@pha.jhu.edu), Office: Bloomberg 215

TAs: Ian Anderson (ianderso@pha.jhu.edu)

Lab Guru: Steve Wonnell (wonnell@pha.jhu.edu)

This page (https://wiki.pha.jhu.edu/advlab_wiki/index.php/2014) is your source of much course-related knowledge.

Also check out general descriptions of labs and pages for previous years at

In this class, you you'll learn

how to conduct an experiment, collecting data with special attention to estimating systematic and statistical measurement errors,
how to model the data,
and how to present your work through scientific writing.

These three aspects essentially define the course. Each lab will be evaluated based on how well the three aspects are realized.

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 ===General Description===
-In this class, you will carry out six [[Main_Page#The_Experiments |experiments]], some of which helped form the basis for modern physics. More importantly, you'll learn
+In this class, you you'll learn
-*how to conduct an experiment with special attention to estimating systematic and statistical measurement errors,
+*how to conduct an experiment, collecting data with special attention to estimating systematic and statistical measurement errors,
-*how to  model the data/understand the goodness of fit (<math>\chi^2 </math>) and errors on model parameters,
+*how to model the data,
 *and how to present your work through scientific writing.
 These three aspects essentially define the course. Each lab will be evaluated based on how well the three aspects are realized.
+===