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Course Twiki for Advanced Physics Lab, PHY 4821LIntroduction:This course is likely the last laboratory course you will take as an undergraduate at FIU. The course is intended to complement and extend what you've learned in the intro and modern physics labs to prepare you for graduate studies in physics or employment in industry or government. In contrast to prior lab coursework in this class, you are expected to work much more independently in both the preparation of your experiments and the analysis of your results. The lab instructor while always willing and available to help will not provide you with a detailed set of instructions to perform the experiment or do the analysis. The primary goal and emphasis of the course is the production of research quality work; the final product being a paper suitable, in both content and formatting, for submission to a physics journal. | ||||||||
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| < < | The course is organized around the production of publication-quality research papers on a variety of physics experiments that emphasize different aspects of data taking and analysis. Each student, working in small two-person teams, is presented with a series of experiments (listed below) over the 16 week semester. You are encouraged to collaborate closely with your lab partner, other members of the class, or even your lab instructor; however, you are responsible for your own research papers. PLEASE DO NOT TURN IN THE SAME PAPER as your lab partner. Research papers should be written to the standards of a typical modern physics journal. This includes conforming to the specific set of style and formatting requirements that are adhered to strictly. You can choose from among the various styles of publications in use today. The particular type-setting or word processing application used is up to you so you may choose whatever you are familiar with. For example, latex or tex provide the "best looking" papers since these are typesetting applications specifically designed for this purpose. Latex and particularly tex, rely on the use of "coded" keywords to draw symbols and equations on paper so are a little more difficult to use than WYSIWG applications like MS Word. On the other hand, MS Word or Openoffice's are perfectly suitable for writing papers and can be made to produce excellent results. In fact, most journals today provide templates in word alongside latex/tex. As a guide for what is expected of you in this class feel free to pull down one of the journals located above cabinets along the walls of our lab room. Likewise, you can download pdfs of CMS papers I've linked for you that are of recent interest, attached below. Finally, I've provided you with latex and word templates you can use, see attachments below. | |||||||
| > > | The course is organized around the production of publication-quality research papers on a variety of physics experiments that emphasize different aspects of data taking and analysis. Each student, working in small two-person teams, is presented with a series of experiments (listed below) over the 16 week semester. You are encouraged to collaborate closely with your lab partner, other members of the class, or even your lab instructor; however, you are responsible for your own research papers. PLEASE DO NOT TURN IN THE SAME PAPER as your lab partner. Research papers should be written to the standards of a typical modern physics journal. This includes conforming to the specific set of style and formatting requirements that are adhered to strictly. You can choose from among the various styles of publications in use today. The particular type-setting or word processing application used is up to you so you may choose whatever you are familiar with. For example, latex or tex provide the "best looking" or professional papers as these are applications are typesetting applications specifically designed for this purpose. Latex, relies on the use of "coded" keywords to draw symbols and equations after a compilation from "scripts" into pdf or postscript. This process is what creates the pdf document so learning how to script and compile latex code is a little more work than those WYSIWG applications like MS Word. On the other hand, MS Word or Openoffice's are perfectly suitable for writing papers and can be made to produce excellent results. In fact, most journals today provide templates in word alongside latex/tex. As a guide for what is expected of you in this class feel free to pull down one of the journals located above cabinets along the walls of our lab room. Likewise, you can download pdfs of recent physics papers I've linked for you that are of recent interest, attached below in the "Attachment box". Finally, I've provided you with word templates as well as a stand-alone latex template, for those of you who've used latex before also in the attachment are below. Recently, I've begun to use http://overleaf.com and have attached a latex template that I created within overleaf for your convenience. Overleaf is an online latex-based system that should make it both easy to do the compilation and collaboration on latex documents. This is what people do these days when collaborating on documents. FIU doesn't, at this time, have a overlead account so feel free to create your own and download the items in the zip file below into your overleaf shell. Good luck. | |||||||
Please note that this is a three-credit UPPER-LEVEL class and you will be expected to put in the corresponding amount of effort.
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