PHYS381-16S2 (C) Semester Two 2016

Advanced Experimental Physics and Astronomy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 11 July 2016
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 24 July 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 October 2016

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. RP: MATH201

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

Course Coordinator

Adrian McDonald

Lecturer

Mike Reid

Lab Technician

Ian Farrell

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Oral Presentation 12.5% Present your mid term project
Formal Report 33% To be written in the style of a scientific paper on the project. This is due at the end of Term 4.
Reports and subsidiary experiment files 54.5% 65 marks for submitted reports and subsidiary files for experiments


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

Please consult the document General Information for Physics and Astronomy Students on the Physics and Astronomy Web Page.
http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/courses/General.pdf

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $832.00

International fee $3,638.00

* 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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  • PHYS381-16S2 (C) Semester Two 2016