labs

All sessions commence on Monday afternoons at 2:30 in 519 Allen

Laboratory

Lab Attendance and Reports

Attendance at all laboratory sessions is mandatory. Consult the instructor to arrange a make-up lab for a valid reason.

Experimental descriptions are given below, but are subject to change in advance of the experiment.

Pre-lab exercises are specified for each lab to help make the lab go more smoothly. Each student should hand in the completed pre-lab exercises at the beginning of the lab, when solutions will be posted. The prelab exercises are worth 5 of the 25 marks for the lab.

Students should work in pairs to perform the experiments, and to do the analysis, but only one student should hand in a written report. Experiments 1 - 8 will require a written report so each student is first author on 4 reports. Ten points will be available to each student for the quality of the analysis and the result, and an additional 10 to the first author for the quality of the report. No report will be required for experiment 9, but 10 points will be available to demonstrate a working experiment. So there are a maximum of 130 points for each student, which make up the the 20 per cent balance for the lab credit. Reports are due in the next lab period, unless otherwise posted.

A hard-cover lab notebook should be used to record your data, and may be inspected by the instructors.

Useful references

1. General reference for circuit analysis: Wikipedia

2. Error analysis reference book: J R Taylor (on reserve, Science Library)

3. Error analysis web site

Lab Manual

The lab manual is posted below.There may be some modifications made before the respective experiment is performed.

Introduction and Error Analysis 2019 (updated for 2019 on 17 Jan)

Introductory Lab exercises 2018

Introduction to Origin 2017

Experiment 1 DC circuit analysis 2018

Experiment 2: RC circuit transient response 2018