The laboratory has always been the crucial arena for testing physical theory and investigating its predictions. Lab experience should therefore accompany or complement every intermediate and upper level course in physics. A laboratory course serves this curricular need well, in the process emphasizing connections between subfields of physics such as electricity, magnetism, optics, classical mechanics, and atomic and subatomic physics. This page contains material for the course including downloadable copies of the Mathematica notebooks developed for the course.
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