Physics 451/551 - Advanced Physics Laboaratory

In Advanced Lab II students will have access to a wide array of experiments, and will be able to choose which experiments they are most interested to pursue.  The course builds on the knowledge gained in Advanced Lab I and
expands your experimental skills, while introducing you to a variety of different physical phenomena.

The course goals are:

• To further students' knowledge and abilities in error analysis,
• To train students in formal manuscript writing, including: Literature searches, proper citations, placing current
  work in context, typesetting via LaTeX, including an explanation and expansion of the theoretical framework of the experiment,
• Teaching students to write and/or modify data acquisition programs in Matlab and LabVIEW,
• To teach students experimental design skills: in particular, how to translate an design idea on paper into a working physical experiment, and
• To teach students how to take an experiment from start to finish, including: design and manufacture of experimental apparatus, data acquisition, data analysis, conclusions and future work.

 Hey students! Want to convert a .jpeg file to a .eps file?  A quick and dirty way is here:  http://www.tlhiv.org/rast2vec/ .  Here is another way to produce pretty good quality images: http://www.go2convert.com/, though the files can be large.  The benefit is that this can convert anything to an .eps figure.  Finally, a more cumbersome method can be found here: http://wwwrses.anu.edu.au/~andy/jpeg2eps/.  Don't forget that MatLab figures can be saved as .eps figures automatically!