Physics 218 Tentative Lab Schedule

Satisfactory completion of the Fourier lab and all three experimental labs is required.

The experimental labs are based on the ``Physics 214 Laboratory Manual'' available in the bookstore.

Exp Lab 1 is Lab 1 ``Standing Waves'' in the manual;
Fourier Lab is a computer lab on Fourier methods (see also the Fourier Lab instructions).
Exp Lab 2 is Lab 3-0 ``Microwaves and Optics''
Exp Lab 3 is Lab 5 ``Interference and Diffraction Phenomena''

The experimental labs should be done at the scheduled times (below) in rooms B26 and B30 in the basement of Rockefeller Hall. For some of the labs, we may be overlapping with one of the Physics 214 sections (which do the same experimental labs as we do).

The computer labs will be held in the Rockefeller Undergraduate Physics computer facility.

You should complete each experiment and the write-up within the 2 1/2 hour period. Your laboratory instructor will grade it satisfactory or unsatisfactory and hand it back to you before you leave that day. If unsatisfactory you will need to improve on it to obtain a satisfactory grade. Your lab instructor will initial your notebook and record your grade.

Physics 218 Laboratory Schedule Fall 2001

Section	Exp. I	Fourier Lab	Exp. II	Exp. III
1 M 7:30-10:30	9/10	9/17	10/15	10/22
2 Th 1:30-4:30	9/13	9/20	10/11	10/18

Notice that the labs are clumped in two pairs of two in a row!

Last modified: August 28, 2001

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity, now available at Oxford University Press (USA, Europe). James P. Sethna, sethna@lassp.cornell.edu.