Physics 305: Experimental Physics I
Fall Semester 2008

Class News:

• All the remaining Final Lab Report Sections and your Final Exam Question (a.k.a. Problem Set 14) have been posted on the Assignments page.
  
  
• FRIENDLY REMINDER: A Lab Journal is not meant to be editted. If you make a mistake, cross it out, DO NOT ERASE it.
  
  
• The Current Course Gradebook was placed online on Thursday, December 04 . This gradebook includes all problem sets and lab grades we had as of December 04
  

(Last Updated: Monday, December 1)

This is the homepage for Physics 305, the first semester of experimental physics. This course is being co-taught by Profs. Lindaas and Cabanela during Fall Semester 2008.

Course Bulletin Description:

Study of laboratory techniques and measuring instruments. Prerequisite: PHYS 201

(Quoting from Wikipedia) Ernest Rutherford (1871 – 1937), was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He was known as the "father" of nuclear physics, pioneered the orbital theory of the atom, notably in his discovery of Rutherford scattering off the nucleus with the gold foil experiment.