Instructor:                                                                                                                                                          Office hours:

Michael Pechan                                                                                                                                     Mon.  10-12        Wed.  11-12

Room 17 Culler Hall                                                                                                                     and by appointment or drop-in.

Phone:  529-4518                                                                                                                                 

E-mail:  pechanmj@muohio.edu

web:  www.muohio.edu/~pechanmj

 

Assistant:  Neil Smith

Texts

Laboratory Manual by H. Jaeger and M. J. Pechan.

ÒThe Art of ElectronicsÓ by P. Horowitz and W. Hill (available at the bookstores).

 

Lecture                                                                                                                                                                   Laboratory

Wednesday 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.                                                                                        Monday and Wednesday 1:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Room Room 130 Culler Hall                                                                                            Room 43 Culler Hall

 

Homework

Homework problems are assigned during the lecture and are due at the beginning of the next lecture unless otherwise specified.

 

Laboratory Notebooks

Experimental observations and data will be recorded in bound laboratory notebooks. The notebooks function as journal of events in the laboratory. Thus ÒerroneousÓ results should not be erased but rather marked out in case they may become useful later.  Comments should be made along with the data, and the results should be summarized at the end of the experiments. For some experiments prelab exercises are assigned. These exercises are to be completed before the lab in the lab notebook. The lab notebooks will be collected periodically and evaluated.

 

Laboratory Reports

Laboratory reports will be due as indicated on the schedule for  experiments #6, #8 and 17 (one report), #19 and #20. The report you submit will be on paper separate from your lab notebook and should be prepared as  described in the PHY 4/571 Report Style Manual, which you will receive as  a separate handout.   Each student is expected to hand in a report separate from his or her lab partner.

 

Projects

The last six or so lab sessions will be devoted to projects. Each lab team should define a project that can be realized in two to three weeks. Instead of being just an electronics gadget, your project should emphasize the physics involved (e.g. measure a physical quantity such as the speed of light, the transition temperature of a superconductor, etc.). Once you have decided upon a project, you will write a short proposal explaining what you intend to do and how you will accomplish it. Your proposal should include a timetable for completion of project, including intermediate steps. One team member will then present the proposal in a short (5 - 10 min) talk during a lecture period. During the last lab period of the semester the projects will be presented to students and faculty of the Department in an ÒOpen HouseÓ session. As with the other reports, each student is expected to hand in a report separate from his or her lab partner.

 

Graduate Credit

In order to earn graduate credit, students will be expected to develop an experiment suitable for future use in this course.  This project is worth 20% in addition to the 100% required for undergraduate credit.

 

Grading

Laboratory Notebook (incl. prelab exercises)                                                                                                       15%

Homework assignments                                                                                                                                                                         15%

Lab reports for experiments 6, 8 & 17, 19, and 20                                                                                          30%

Project Report, including written proposal                                                                                                              15%

Midterm exam                                                                                                                                                                                                         25%