| Date | Topic | Date | Topic | |||
| Jan | 16 | Read Section 3.3 in Thornton and Rex; read Chap 1 in Baird; do introduction.nb notebook; get a notebook; read the syllabus. | Mar | 13 | For Thursday: Project topics due; Talks by Sarah on adiabatic gases, Kirill on microwaves, Andy and Whitney on big G. | |
| 18 | read Chap 2 in Baird; do problems 1,2,5,8,12 and hand in on Tuesday; Hydrogen-lab analysis should be complete by next Tuesday. | 15 | Topic title due; For Tuesday: Talks by Sarah, Kirill, Spencer; Reports from Sarah, Whitney and Andy, Spencer. | |||
| 23 | Hydrogen lab report due Thursday; Chap 2 in Baird, do problems 9-11, 13-14; Read Chap 3 in Baird; Read Chap 1 in Thornton and Rex. | 20 | Project Introduction due next time. | |||
| 25 | Chap 3 in Baird, do problems 1-9; hand in problems 9-11, 13-14 from Chap 2 in Baird next Tuesday; Work through notebooks plotting1.nb and fitting1.nb which are here. | 22 | Introductions due; For Tuesday: Talk by Cosmin. | |||
| 30 | P-T lab report due on Thursday; Read Chap 4 in Baird. | 27 | Theory section due next class. | |||
| Feb | 1 | Read Chap 12 and Section 13.7 in Rex and Thornton; Activity 5 in lab writeup; homework in lab writeup; hand in problems 1-9 from Chap 3 in Baird next Tuesday. | 29 | Theory sections due. | ||
| 6 | Complete analysis of radioactive decay data using the notebooks NonlinearFitting1.nb and NonlinearFitting2.nb on the course website for guidance; Read overviews, select a lab, and email me. | Apr | 3 | |||
| 8 | Lab report for radioactive decay due on Tuesday; Do background reading on your 'Round Robin' lab. | 5 | Notebooks due next class. | |||
| 13 | Talks on Thursday: Brian, Kirill | 10 | Notebooks due on Thursday. | |||
| 15 | 12 | |||||
| 20 | Talks on Thursday: Andy/Alex, Sarah, Whitney/Spencer; Reports on Thursday: Sarah, Andy, Alex | 17 | ||||
| 22 | Talks on Tuesday: Cosmin; Reports on Tuesday: Cosmin, Whitney, Spencer, Andy, Alex | 19 | ||||
| 27 | Reports due Thursday: Whitney, Spencer, Alex, Kirill | 24 | ||||
| Mar | 1 | 26 | ||||
| Mar | 6 | Spring | ||||
| 8 | Break |
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