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| Intermediate Physics Lab | |||
| INT PHYS LAB | |||
| CLASS CODE: | PH 250 | CREDITS: 1 | |
| COLLEGE: | PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | PHYSICS | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Intermediate Physics Laboratory for Physics and Physical Science Teaching Majors. Experimental investigations into electricity and magnetism. | ||
| TAUGHT: | Fall, Winter, Spring | ||
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: | This course is intended to give experience in conducting, analyzing and reporting experiments dealing with electricity and magnetism. Basic statistics, experimental design, circuit elements, computer integration, computer programming in LabView, and transducers. |
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| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: | 1. Develop a computer interfaced experiment. 2. The necessary electronic skills to produce a measurable signal from various sources. 3. Participate in complex experiments where the computer is interfaced to their environment. 4. Understand the challenges and advantages of using computers in science. 5. Recognize applications in computer interfacing to other disciplines such as engineering, chemistry, medicine, meteorology. 6. Analyze real physical problems and develop correct solutions to them. Application of natural laws and computer logic. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Participation in laboratory activities, laboratory notebooks, papers, and oral presentations. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | PH 150 and concurrent registration or completion of Physics 220 | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2009 | ||