Modern Physics Laboratory (33.340)
Course Materials

The downloadable files here are used at various points during the course. Generally they are available in hard-copy form in the Lab office.

• Syllabus.
  

Assignments

• Assignment 6 (Term Paper).
  

Recitation Lectures

• Lecture for First Class (Course Overview).
  

• Lecture for Week 1 (Lab Books).
  

• Lecture for Week 2 (First: Uncertainties & Error Propagation).
  

• Lecture for Week 2 (Second: Four Distributions).
  

• Lecture for Week 3 (Giving Scientific Talks).
  

• Lecture for Week 4 (Fitting Theory Curves to Data).
  

• Lecture for Week 5 (The Deeper Meaning of chi^2).
  

• Lecture for Week 6 (Finishing an Experiment and Writing a Scientific Article).
  

• Lecture for Week 7 (Combining Measurements, and Goodness of Fit Examples).
  

• Lecture for Week 8 (Using chi^2 to Help Select a Parent Function; Local Minima).
  

• 2nd REVISED course plan due to CMU closure (Supercedes syllabus).
  

• Lecture for Week 9 (Methods for Non-Linear Fitting).
  

• Lecture for Week 10 (More Non-Linear Fitting Algorithms).
  

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