Undergraduate Course: Experimental Physics (PHYS09049)

Course Outline
School	School of Physics and Astronomy	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course comprises four experimental projects for each student, chosen (from a wide-ranging total set) to include a balanced sample of experimental techniques. Each project extends over two weeks, attending three afternoons per week. There are also workshops held at the end of semester 1 and beginning of semester 2.
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Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 72, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 122 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 80 %, Practical Exam 20 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	100% coursework including written reported and laboratory notebooks: Four written reports, 66.7% Oral presentation, 16.7% Laboratory notebook, 16.7%
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Learning Outcomes
- Design and carry out an experiment to test a physical theory with guidance from a lab script. - Identify the sources of any errors in experimental results, quantify them and formulate approaches to control them. - Analyse the consistency of experimental data with predictions from existing theories or other data sets where appropriate. - Maintain a complete and legible contemporary record of experimental procedures and results. - Present a complete, reproducible written or oral account of an experiment and the conclusions drawn from it to a professional standard, incorporating figures, tables and graphs where appropriate. - Resolve conceptual and technical difficulties by locating and integrating relevant information from a diverse range of sources.