Single-Course Dansk 5 ECTS

Experimental Methods and Instruments in Physics

Overall Course Objectives

In this course you will learn to measure physical quantities as well as to design experiments in physics. The goal of the course is not to demonstrate specific physical laws, but rather to provide you with experimental and engineering skills to build an experimental setup yourself and design an experiment that can illuminate a physical law, where certain physical quantities are varied while others are measured. In the course, you will primarily use electrical and optical experimental methods.

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Learning Objectives

  • Know and comply with safety procedures for work in the laboratory.
  • Explain specifications of the used equipment and ensure that the equipment is used appropriately without being damaged.
  • Use methods for digital data acquisition, and ensure that data is stored according to a specified data management plan according to DTU’s recommendations.
  • Plan an experiment and build an experimental setup for carrying out the experiment, including choosing methods to control certain physical quantities and methods to measure the derived effects on other physical quantities.
  • Use instrument specifications and statistical methods to assess measurement capability and uncertainties.
  • Identify and eliminate noise and error sources, and assess their relevance in relation to the observed deviations.
  • Use sensors and transducers for precise control of physical quantities, including programming and setting a PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) control to control a system.
  • Use both DC and AC measurement methods, and be able to record and analyze measurement data in both the time- and the frequency domain.
  • Be able to present raw data and analyzed data in informative graphs and tables with an indication of uncertainties.
  • Describe the used experimental methods, experimental conditions and used equipment in sufficient detail, so that the experiment can be repeated by peers
  • Document the experimental setup with sketches and images.
  • Summarize the work in a short and concise report, where the experiment and results are presented, and the report generally appears aesthetically appealing, i.e. well worked through and with a homogeneous layout.

Course Content

You will be introduced to methods, measurement principles and equipment through lectures, but will then spend most of the time under supervision on designing and building an experimental setup where electrical or optical measurements will be included. Before the experimental work, you must get together with 2-3 fellow students and form a group. You and your group must then use your setup to plan and carry out an experiment. You must use the last part of the course to analyze your data and document your experiment in a short and concise report, which will form the basis for the assessment.

Recommended prerequisites

10035/10859/10031

Teaching Method

Lectures and lab exercises

Faculty

Limited number of seats

Minimum: 16, Maximum: 30.

Please be aware that this course has a minimum requirement for the number of participants needed, in order for it to be held. If these requirements are not met, then the course will not be held. Furthermore, there is a limited number of seats available. If there are too many applicants, a pool will be created for the remainder of the qualified applicants, and they will be selected at random. You will be informed 8 days before the start of the course, whether you have been allocated a spot.

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Language

Dansk

Duration

13 weeks

Institute

Physics

Place

DTU Lyngby Campus

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Course code 10870
Course type Bachelor
Semester start Week 36
Semester end Week 49
Days Fri 13-17
Price

9.250,00 DKK

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