ASTR381-24S2 (C) Semester Two 2024

Advanced Experiments in Physics and Astronomy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2024
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2024
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 28 July 2024
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 29 September 2024

Description

Execution and write-up of selected laboratory experiments.

Prerequisites

(1) PHYS285; (2) 30 points from PHYS201-206 including either PHYS202 or PHYS205). (3) MATH103 or EMTH119 or MATH201. RP: MATH201

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

Timetable 2024

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 14:00 - 17:00 Jack Erskine 443
15 Jul - 18 Aug
Drop in Class A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 14:00 - 17:00 Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab (23/9-30/9)
Rehua 530 (7/10-14/10)
23 Sep - 20 Oct
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 11:00 Ernest Rutherford 464 Computer Lab
15 Jul - 25 Aug
Lab B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 14:00 - 17:00 Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab
19 Aug - 25 Aug
9 Sep - 22 Sep

Lecturer

Adrian McDonald

Assessment

The course is marked out of 120 (assessment breakdown above is as %), which you can think of as 10 marks per week for 12 weeks.  

65 marks for submitted reports and subsidiary files for experiments as listed in the Choice of Experiments section of the course outline.

15 marks for oral presentation of a project you have undertaken, in the middle of Term 4.

40 marks for a formal report in the style of a scientific paper on the project.  This is due at the end of Term 4.

Additional Course Outline Information

Academic integrity

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $978.00

International fee $4,988.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

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