PHYS 081. Advanced Laboratory I

This is the first of a two-semester sequence designed to fulfill the physics major advanced laboratory requirement. Students will perform projects in digital electronics. They will also perform experiments chosen from among the areas of thermal and statistical physics, solid state, atomic, plasma, nuclear, biophysics, condensed matter physics, and advanced optics.
Prerequisite: PHYS 018   . It is strongly recommended that students are also co-enrolled in either PHYS 113  or PHYS 114    while taking Physics 081; please discuss requests to take advanced lab before either Physics 113 or 114 with the department chair.
Writing course.
0.5 credit.
Fall 2022. H. Smith.
Spring 2023. Hackler.
Fall 2023. Brown.
Spring 2024. Crouch.
Fall 2024. Bester.
Spring 2025. Brown.
Catalog chapter: Physics and Astronomy  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/physics-astronomy


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