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

PHYS 545 - 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 445