Physics 305:
Experimental Physics I

Class News:

• Photoelectric Effect lab report drafts are due prior to break.
• Work on revising your Mass of a Cart Wheel lab report. Please see Dr L if you have questions about comments.
  
  
• FRIENDLY REMINDER: A Lab Journal is not meant to be editted. If you make a mistake, cross it out, DO NOT ERASE it.
  

(Last Updated: October 21, 2009)

This is the homepage for Physics 305, the first semester of experimental physics. This course is being co-taught by Profs. Lindaas and Winkler during Fall Semester 2009.

Course Bulletin Description:

Study of laboratory techniques and measuring instruments. Prerequisite: PHYS 201

(Quoting from Wikipedia) Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937), was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom, notably in his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with the gold foil experiment.