Experimental Physics I - PHS 275

This course is the first of a sequence of two sophomore physics labs. It includes selected experiments in classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics such as collisions, vibrations and waves, electric and magnetic field measurements, emission line spectroscopy, etc. Students learn about error analysis, software packages for data visualization and data analysis such as Excel, Matlab, and lab report writing. Corequisite: PHS 206.