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UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at BERKELEY
Physics 111 Advanced Laboratory is an intensive 3-unit laboratory course for 3rd- and 4th-year physics students at the University of California, Berkeley. It follows the Physics 111 Basic Semiconductor Circuits course , which introduces students to electronics and computerized data acquisition, signal processing, and control. With these tools, students in the Advanced Lab section of Physics 111 undertake four experiments, each taking 2-4 weeks to perform. These experiments are selected by the students from the 18-20 experiments permanently set up in the lab to represent a wide range of topics and techniques in experimental physics. Many of the experiments replicate Nobel prize-winning studies and all are designed to develop skills essential in modern research.
About This Wiki
This site supplements the course web site by providing the lab manuals for many of the experiments in the Physics 111 Advanced Lab. Each link in the "Advanced Lab Experiments" sidebar to the left leads to a set of Wiki pages containing a guide to the experiment, including pre-lab assignments, references, theory, and instructions. For advanced lab experiments that do not appear here, go to the regular course web site to obtain the write-ups in pdf form.
For students currently enrolled in the course
You can view and print any pages on the wiki without having an account or logging in.
You are welcome to participate in improving the lab writeups. First, you must obtain an account username and password from your instructor. There are two ways you can contribute:
- Edit the page yourself by clicking on the "Edit" tab at the top of a wiki page. Any changes you make take effect immediately upon clicking "save" and will be reflected on the "history" page associated with that wiki page. Your username will be associated with any changes you make, and we trust you will use this privilege responsibly. The kinds of changes we encourage you to make directly include correcting errors, improving explanations, and adding links to useful reference information you may have found.
- Point out a difficulty or suggest a change to a page by clicking on the "discussion" tab and writing a comment. This is particularly appropriate if the changes you want are substantial, such as to the
structure of the experiment, equipment used, procedures, questions assigned, etc.
For other visitors of our Wiki
This Wiki is open to the public to view but not to edit. Copyright is held by the University of California Regents. However, we gladly make content available to other schools for non-profit educational use. Some links to copyright-protected references and software are not available to anyone without authentication as a Physics 111 student or staff.
Acknowledgements
Professor Jan Liphardt initiated this site at the suggestion of Steven Wasserman and wrote a document converter to create Wiki pages from Microsoft Word files. Two Segre Interns, Nick Ravn and Diana Lee, spent much of July, 2007, converting the lab writeups from Word to Wiki, entering all the equations in LaTex, and figuring out how to administer the Wiki site. Tom Colton and Don Orlando currently administer the Wiki and do much of the editing.
Helpful tools
New to Wikis? Consult the User's Guide.
Here is a Visual Basic script to convert word files into MediaWiki format.
