Roger F. Gans  my informal home page a student's eye view office: Hopeman 330  phone: 5-2123  e-mail: gans@me.rochester.edu  if you are trying to find me, click here goals for the semester FAQs groups and projects the experimental process reporting of results. grading algorithm short experiments The Library The Writing Center  safety LabVIEW ethics resources about projects

CLASSES: MW 1400-1805, Gavett 301, lab work in various lab spaces; TR 0800-1055, lectures in Gavett 208, generally not before 0830.  We will also meet from time to time in Gavett 244.  We will not be meeting for all of the alloted time.  Final oral presentations and the poster will be in Hopeman 224.  See the schedule for a better idea of what we are going to be doing.

OFFICE HOURS: TBD (when available — check my calendar), or catch me in the laboratory sessions in the afternoon.  There's usually plenty of time to talk to me once the lab is up and running.

STAFF (with email links):
technician: Scott Russell
TAs: Jason Miller, Stetmund Roberson
Writing Center staff: Tanya Bakhmetyeva, Assistant Director, Kristina Wilson,  others TBD

THE COURSE: The course introduces laboratory techniques, both measurement and statistical, through a series of short experiments, and then provides an opportunity to apply these techniques in the context of a major experimental project chosen by the students.  You will work in groups of three, and each group will have its own individual project, chosen with my advice and consent.  (See the project page).  There is a daily schedule (subject to minor modification as we go along).

TEXT

There is no text.  Any of a number of books on data analysis will be helpful, but there's nothing that has mostly stuff for us.  We'll be using LabVIEW 7.2, and a book that covers that might also be useful.

GRADING

This is complicated; please refer to the algorithm.   The basic breakdown is 1/3 for the beginning of the course and 2/3 for the project.

EXAM

There will probably be one short quiz at the end of the lecture series.  Some previous exams and their solutions are posted in pdf format (95 exam, 95 solution, 96 exam, 96 solution).  The 2000 exam and solution. 2004 exam with its solution.  The 2008 solved exam is here.

THE WRITING CENTER: The online advising center and a set of links for specific problems

We will be concerned in general with safety, laboratory techniques, experiment design, data analysis and statistics and reporting of results.

You will need to use the library.  Google and Wikipedia are not enough. There will be instruction on how to do this from the library staff.  The library's web site (Voyager Catalog) is here, and there's a library course page just for us (with some good search tools) here.)  If you find something really neat, mail it to me.