PHYS381-23S2 (C) Semester Two 2023

Advanced Experimental Physics and Astronomy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
End Date: Sunday, 12 November 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 October 2023

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 2023

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 15:00 - 18:00 A9 Lecture Theatre (17/7-7/8)
E12 (9/10-16/10)
17 Jul - 23 Jul
7 Aug - 13 Aug
9 Oct - 22 Oct
Drop in Class A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab
14 Aug - 27 Aug
11 Sep - 8 Oct
Drop in Class B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01-P1 Friday 09:00 - 11:00 Ernest Rutherford 212 Computer Lab (18/8)
14 Aug - 20 Aug
01-P2 Friday 09:00 - 12:00 Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab (25/8, 15/9-6/10)
21 Aug - 27 Aug
11 Sep - 8 Oct
Drop in Class C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 010 Computer Lab
7 Aug - 13 Aug
Drop in Class D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 11:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 111
14 Aug - 20 Aug
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 Ernest Rutherford 212 Computer Lab (18/7-25/7)
Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab (1/8-8/8)
17 Jul - 13 Aug
Lab B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 248 Computer Lab (28/7)
Ernest Rutherford 313 Physics Lab (4/8)
24 Jul - 6 Aug
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 12:00 Jack Erskine 446
9 Oct - 15 Oct
Workshop B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 Rehua 002 Lectorial
16 Oct - 22 Oct

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 $951.00

International fee $4,750.00

* 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 on the departments and faculties page .

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