Welcome to Physics 332 for the Spring of 2021!

Course:	Advanced Lab	Location: MR 320
Offered:	W 1:00-4:00, and self-scheduled: The Wednesday classes are synchronous/in-person, and then you schedule the time you work on the lab on your own when the entire lab group (in-person and virtual) can be present.
Professor:	Peter Sheldon	Martin 316, x8488 (Office), 238-5681 (Cell)
Texts:	There is no required text for this class. You will need access to modern physics texts.

Course Comments:  This is an intensive lab/lecture course with two hours of lecture and a lab for each two week period. The course is meant to bring together many of the theories you have learned in your physics classes thus far (modern physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism), and enable you to look deeper into the theories and meaning of physics concepts of which you previously only skimmed the surface. The course is meant to teach through hands-on experience, and should teach you methods of experimental research.

You are expected to do independent research and calculations, and to be able to analyze and describe real physics phenomenon.  Some labs will use computer data acquisition and computer analysis of data.  Each lab is expected to take a minimum of 3 hours in-class and 6 hours on your own, not including research and write-up time. A final project will culminate in a presentation of your results to the rest of the class.