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PHYS 3411 - Methods of Experimental Physics
  
Course last offered 
 :   
Spring 2013/14
Instructor(s)
 :
WEN Weijia, LORTZ Rolf
No. of credits
 :
2
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Teaching Pattern
  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks
  • Lecture hour(s) / laboratory hour(s) per week: 1 / 3
 
Content
 
  • Electronics Sequence – Experiments
    • Laboratory Computation
    • Test Instruments
    • AC Circuits and Input/Output Impedance
    • Diodes and Transistors
    • Operational Amplifiers
    • Frequency Analysis of Electronic Signals
    • Digital Devices
 
  • Electronics Sequence – Lectures
    • General introduction and Guide to notebook writing - Lab report writing and Error analysis
    • Test instruments: specifications and applications
    • AC Circuits and Input/Output Impedance
    • Electronic properties of diodes and transistors
    • Analog devices and operational amplifiers
    • Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and power spectrum of electronic signals
    • Integrated circuits: digital logic and devices
 
  • Optics Sequence- Experiments
    • Laboratory Computation
    • Basic Optical Systems
    • Application of interferometry
    • Waveguides and Optical Fibers
    • Application of Optical Spectroscopy
    • Semiconductor Laser Diodes
    • Microwave Reflection, Scattering, and Diffraction
 
  • Optics Sequence – Lectures
    • General introduction and Guide to notebook writing
    • Introduction of optical experiments
    • Optical interferometry and applications
    • Waveguide and fiber optics
    • Optical spectroscopy and applications
    • Laser Diodes
    • Reflection, scattering and diffraction of microwaves
 
 
 
Remarks
  • Prerequisite: PHYS 2421

 

PHYS 3411 will not be offered w.e.f. 2014/15.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS