Week 2 Starts Monday Jan 13

PHYS4010
Per lab schedules-- you have first lab data aquisition completed already

• Make sure you have read materials, have task sheet, and watched videos for your lab.
• Prepare your lab notebooks with instructions /prep for yourself---leave space for data
• You may prep lab notebooks beforehand with a data table that needs to be filled in.
• Units are important.
• Note conditions that may impact your experiment
• Be safe wtih Lasers.
• We shall schedule "one on one/oral lab times" on Monday if you have not already done so. .
  • Note I MUST CHECK THESE TO FIT MY SCHEDULE (WHICH CHANGES WEEKLY)
  • These are half hour blocks (roughly)
  • You may have your lab notebooks
  • I will take you into lab where you will watch me mess up things like the detector positions, oscilloscope settings, etc--and then you will have 30 minutes to demonstrate that you can get (and analyze) some sample data. Bam.
  • Show me the sample work on the board. Be able to answer questions.

You have HW 2 due at the start of lab time15th (Wed)

Data Analysis draft due Wed. 15th.

• We will meet Monday-normal. (set up individual lab sessions if needed)
• We will meet at the start of lab time on Tuesday 14th
• We will meet at the start of lab time Wed. the 15th to collect HW and collect Analysis

HW 3 (the least squares fit derivation) will be due Next Wed. Jan 22th ---at the start of lab time.

Making graphs.

• Have a title.
• Each axis must be labeled. (A name for the axis quantity, units, and appropriately formatted numbers)
• Use professional looking number formats (no "E"---preferred---use real scientific notation if needed).
• Use greek symbols if needed, sub, super.
• appropriate plus/minus character
• Do not place extraneous results on graph (you edit information--don't merely take what a software package vomits at you). Be deliberate.
  • Result on graph may look like c=_______ with uncertainty and units. If you put something like y=mx+b---I'll tell you I have no idea what you mean by that, or that you are wasting time/space introducing new symbols.
• If "c " is important then put that and uncertainty in a nice format.
• If intercept is important, then put that (it might not be zero here---how come or should it be----maybe you chose wisely?????). If it is not important--then don't distract me with the information.
• Origin is a point and click program---you can find most useful features by looking around or clicking. Or use Matlab, or whatever (many of you are matlab and python proficient).

Data Tables.

• 50 page data tables do not typically go in lab reports.
• Sometimes longer tables go in appendices.
• Short tables are great to insert into the body of the paper.
• Sometimes there is reference to an open link on a server--for long data sets.
• For small data sets (eg. speed of light) you may put data in a table and include.
• Table should have a title, and caption like a graph.
• Proper number format, proper units, uncertainty (top of column is good for units and uncert---if same throughout). LaTeX will take care of much of the formatting for you.
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When placing Graphs, figures, and tables---they are generally placed just after the first location you mention them. Sometimes this can be awkward and you may need/want to manually adjust. That is fine---but don't get far away from "wehre you mention it". There are journal styles that place everything at the end. (Yuck).

Most important, let me know if I am missing anything, or stuff gets lost in the clutter.