 | This year's final and some of
the solutions have been
posted.
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| A summary of the cryogenic and
vacuum lectures has been posted.
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| Office hours for Prof. Mans during Final
week are 2:15-4:00 MTW.
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| Rules and suggestions regarding the
final project report, the poster session and lab cleanup
can be found here.
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| Last year's final and
solutions have been
posted.
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| Tables for the vacuum
lectures have been posted.
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| Suggested homework for the cryogenics
lectures has been posted
here.
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| Home work regarding the photon lectures
can be found
here. It is optional, but suggested as a study guide for the final
(hint, hint).
The solutions can be found
here
but it is strongly suggested that you make a serious attempt on the
homework without referring to the solutions beforehand.
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| The project web sites have finally been
set up. Instructions on how to use them can be found
here.
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| The dates for the initial student presentations have been posted on the
project page. Since your
(PowerPoint) presentation should be about 12 minutes long (plus 3 minutes
for audience questions) do not show more than 12 slides. Here are some
suggestions for your presentation:
 | The first slide should state the project title, the name of the
presenter and, if applicable, the project partner's name and project
advisor. If it is the continuation of a previous project, the
previous students should also be mentioned. |
The other slides should address the following topics:
| WHY: Why did you select this project, i.e., what are its
applications, what do find interesting or fascinating about it? In
other words, explain (motivate) your audience why they should find it
interesting or useful. Keep this very brief. Avoid over-inflating the meaning of your project; let the audience judge
whether or not if this will solve all the world's problems. |
| WHAT and HOW: What physical properties will you observe and how are
you going to do so? After having become familiar with your project
it may seem obvious to you what you will be observing. To
the audience, who is hearing this for the first time, the particular
physical property may have very little meaning. So if you are
unable to explain to your audience what you are going to observe than
the theory following this, will be most likely lost on them too. |
| THEORY: Show only the relevant equations (and related graphs)
that govern your experiment. Warning: though you should be able to
derive these equation (in case someone asks you), in your presentation
do NOT derive them! (Deriving equations is very time consuming and
you will not have the time to do so.) Instead explain the
equations' implications for your experiment, i.e., which are the
dependent and the independent variables and how do you intend to use
them to analyze your results. |
| EXPERIMENTAL SETUP: Explain the overall setup; spend some
extra time on the (relevant) components that are unfamiliar to the
audience. Briefly, list or explain some of the potential sources
of trouble for your experiment and how you plan to deal with them. |
| From this it should follow that about half the slides will cover
theory and the other half the experimental setup. |
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| A sample proposal can be found
here.
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| A list of student projects can be found here.
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| The revised version of the Half-Life of Polonium Experiment can
be downloaded here.
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| Suggestions and rules for the lab reports for the experiments can be found
here. |
