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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHY 225 - Introductory Experimental Physics I

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Intermediate Writing
Laboratory / 5 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisites: ENL 102; PHY 111 or PHY 113; MTH 151 or 153; or permission of instructor
Introduction to measurement and analysis techniques in experimental physics. Skills developed include laboratory note taking and reporting, equipment calibration, error estimation and the use of apparatus such as multimeters and oscilloscopes. The lectures introduce the theory of error analysis and propagation, data interpretation and presentation, and scientific ethics.
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