Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Lab

Assignments

Discussion

Leader

1

1/18

Intro. – Writing Reports

BEC

2

1/23

Error Analysis and Uncertainties    

Ch. 1, 2

P 1

1 Dan

1/25

Library Session (at LIR)

P 1

3

1/30

Propagation of Uncertainties

Ch. 3

P 1

2 Erin

2/1

Propagation / Systematic vs. Random Unc.

Ch. 3, 4

P 1

HW 1

3 Evan

4

2/6

Quiz1 Ch. 1—3 / Statistics of Random Uncertainty

Ch. 4

P 1

BEC

2/8

Rough Draft Discussion / Journal Articles

P 1^*

P 1 rough draft

BEC

5

2/13

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

4 Daiji

2/15

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

5 AnneMarie

6

2/20

The Normal Distribution

Ch. 5

P 2

6 Matt

2/22

Rejection of Data

Ch. 6

P 2

HW 2

7 Billy

7

2/27

Quiz2 Ch. 4—5 / Weighted Averages

Ch. 7

P 2

BEC

3/1

Least Square Fitting

P 2^*

8 Jonathan

8

3/6

Physics Disciplines

Ch. 8

P 3

Resume

BEC

3/8

Careers

P 3

CCD

9

3/13

SPRING BREAK

3/15

10

3/20

Least Square Fitting

Ch. 8

P 3

HW 3

9 Brent

3/22

Least Square Fitting / Covariance and Correlation

Ch. 8, 9

P 3

10 David

11

3/27

Covariance and Correlation

Ch. 9

P 3

11 Sam

3/39

Quiz3 Ch. 7—9 / The Binomial Distribution

Ch. 10

P 3^*

BEC

12

4/3

The Binomial Distribution

Ch. 10

P 4

12 Kyle

4/5

The Poisson Distribution

Ch. 11

P 4

13 Anne

13

4/10

The Poisson Distribution

Ch. 11

P 4

HW 4

14 Emma

4/12

No Class – follow Monday schedule

P 4

14

4/17

The Chi-Squared Test 

Ch. 12

P 4

15 Brock

4/19

The Chi-Squared Test

Ch. 12

P 4^*

BEC

15

4/24

Quiz4 Ch. 9—12 / Posters

BEC

4/26

Student Evaluations / Posters

BEC

16

5/1

No Class – Work on Posters

5/3

Poster Presentation

Final Exam :  Tuesday, May 8 8:30—11:30 am