Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Lab

Assignments

Discussion

Leader

1

1/19

Intro. – Writing Reports

2

1/24

Error Analysis and Uncertainties    

Ch. 1, 2

P 1

Lauren

1/26

Library Session (at LIR)

P 1

3

1/31

Propagation of Uncertainties

Ch. 3

P 1

HW 1

Dan

2/2

Propagation / Systematic vs. Random Unc.

Ch. 3, 4

P 1

Zee

4

2/7

Quiz1 Ch. 1—3 / Statistics of Random Uncertainty

Ch. 4

P 1

BEC

2/9

Rough Draft Discussion / Journal Articles

P 1^*

P 1 rough draft

BEC

5

2/14

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

Josh

2/16

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

Brook

6

2/21

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

HW 2

Chris

2/23

Rejection of Data

Ch. 6

P 2

Joe

7

2/28

Quiz2 Ch. 4—5 / Weighted Averages

Ch. 7

P 2

BEC

3/2

Least Square Fitting

Ch. 8

P 2^*

Nick

8

3/7

fBK speaker

Ch. 8

P 3

Resume

3/9

Careers ?

P 3

9

3/14

SPRING BREAK

3/16

10

3/21

Least Square Fitting

Ch. 8

P 3

HW 3

Rich

3/23

Least Square Fitting /Covariance and Correlation

Ch. 8, 9

P 3

Jamie

11

3/28

Covariance and Correlation

Ch. 9

P 3

Kristen

3/30

Quiz3 Ch. 7—9 / The Binomial Distribution

Ch. 10

P 3^*

BEC

12

4/4

The Binomial Distribution

Ch. 10

P 4

Jenna

4/6

The Poisson Distribution

Ch. 11

P 4

Mick

13

4/11

The Poisson Distribution

Ch. 11

P 4

HW 4

BEC

4/13

The Chi-Squared Test

Ch. 12

P 4

BEC

14

4/18

The Chi-Squared Test  / Field Trip ?

Ch. 12

P 4

4/20

No Class – Monday Schedule

P 4^*

15

4/25

Quiz4 Ch. 9—12 / Posters / Current Topics in Physics

4/27

Current Topics in Physics

16

5/2

No Class – Work on Posters

5/4

Poster Presentation

Final Exam :  Sunday, May 7 1:30—4:30 pm