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2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 445 - Experimental Methods in Physics I


(3 units)

Prerequisites: PHYS 254 ; PHYS 450  or consent of instructor.
(Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 445; graduates enroll in PHYS 545 .) Modern physical measurement techniques including scanning probe microscopy and pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance. Noise and fluctuations in physical measurements. Low noise measurement techniques including lock-in amplifier, gated integrator and boxcar averager, bridge circuits, convolution, autoand cross-correlation and FFT.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.) PHYS 545