Senior
Physics Laboratory
Physics 597
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Course information
Instructor
Dr. Alexander Lvovsky
E-mail: lvov(at)ucalgary.ca
Telephone: 403 220 4124
Office: Science B 319
Office hours: By appointment
Lab coordinator
Patrick
Irwin <aphyslab(at)ucalgary.ca> 403 220 2593
Office: Earth Sciences 002
Teaching assistants
Eugene
Moiseev <e.s.moiseev(at)gmail.com> 403 210 8910
Shreyas Jalnapurkar <shreyas.jalnapurkar(at)ucalgary.ca>
403 210 8971
Office: Science B 318
Course schedule
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Lab |
Group |
Lab sessions |
Proposal due |
Notes & Report due |
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Orien-tation |
M/W |
Sep. 13 |
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T/R |
Sep. 14 |
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1 |
M/W |
Sep. 18, 20, 25, 27, Oct. 2, 4, 11 |
Sep. 25 |
Oct. 13 |
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T/R |
Sep. 19, 21, 26, 28, Oct. 3, 5, 12 |
Sep. 26 |
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2 |
M/W |
Oct. 16, 18, 23, 25, 30, Nov. 1, 6 |
Oct. 23 |
Nov. 9 |
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T/R |
Oct. 17, 19, 24, 26, 31, Nov. 2, 7 |
Oct. 24 |
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3 |
M/W |
Nov. 15, 20, 22, 27, 29, Dec. 4, 6 |
Nov. 22 |
Dec. 8 |
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1 Preparatory session to select
partner and preferred topics
2 No labs on October 9-10
(Thanksgiving)
3 No labs on November 13-14 (reading
days)
Course materials
LaTeX lab proposal and
report template
Guides and templates for scientific
writing
Physical Review Style
and Notation Guide
Follow these formal guidelines to format your
report
Journal
title abbreviations
For the reference list
Writing a Better Scientific
Article
A good informal style guide from Reviews of
Modern Physics
Writing a
scientific research article
Further advice
Nature's
sample first paragraph
Just for reference. Do not follow in lab
reports
The Motivation and Technique of Writing Scientific
Contributions
Just for fun. Includes a section on how
to confuse your referee
Karl Darrow. How to address the American Physical Society
An insightful and fun advice on
delivering research presentations