The PHYLAB2 co-ordinators are A/Prof Roger Fearick (1st Semester) and Dr Spencer Wheaton (2nd Semester).

First semester PHY2014F.

Laboratory sessions are 14.00 - 17.00 each Monday of term in PHYLAB2

Resources:

• Introduction to uncertainties
• Lab manual Part 1
• Lab manual Part 2
• Term 2: Schedule of experiments
• Updated Experiment E25

Second semester PHY2015S.

The lab will focus on an introduction to computational methods, in support of the Classical and Quantum Mechanics lectures.

Python

See the Python for physics pages for some programs.

Fitting of a curve to data can b done using gnuplot, or by using a Python program (which will require you to install scipy and matplotlib). Some fitting programs are given below; they show you how to do the fit and extract the parameter uncertainties, etc., which is not obvious from the scipy documentation. They will need to be adapted to the required fit function.

• A simple approach to fitting is in this first program.
• This version has a fancier way of dealing with fit parameters, using more advanced Python.