PHYS381-13S2 (C) Semester Two 2013

Advanced Experimental Physics and Astronomy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 8 July 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 21 July 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 October 2013

Description

Execution and write-up of selected laboratory experiments.

Prerequisites

(1) Either (PHYS282 and 22 points from PHYS221-224) or (PHYS285 and 30 points from PHYS201-204 including either PHYS202 or PHYS204). (2) MATH103 or MATH109 or EMTH119.  RP: MATH201

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

Course Coordinator

Mike Reid

Lecturer

Adrian McDonald

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Formal Report 37.5% A formal report in the style of a scientific paper on a student project. This is due at the end of Term 4.
Introductory data acquisition exercise 12.5%
Introductory data analysis exercise 12.5%
Submitted reports and three experiments 37.5% Submitted reports and subsidiary files for three experiments listed in the Choice of Experiments section.


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.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $747.00

International fee $3,488.00

* 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 Physics and Astronomy .

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