PC3193 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS II
2013 / 2014
Semester I
General
1.
To complete the above module you have to clock up at least 60 credit hours,
inclusive of 6 credit hours of oral presentation. Hence the weightings for lab work
and oral presentation are 90% and 10% respectively.
2.
Data Log Book: For each experiment, the procedure, precautions taken,
observations, data, calculations and results are to be recorded in a Data Log Book. It
is to be signed by a demonstrator or lab technologist at the end of each lab
session for verification of work done. The Data Log Book is to be submitted at the
end of your last viva.
3.
Reports: You must perform two allocated “report” experiments, for which you have
to write a report each based on the research-journal format. The report is to contain
the background, theory, procedures, precautions taken, data, analyses and results of
the experiment. The report must be printed on A-4 size paper.
4.
Summaries/Abstracts: Summaries, limited to two printed A-4 pages of text each,
need be submitted for the other short experiments performed. The summary, whose
organization and style resembles those of a typical abstract of physics research
journals, should contain the objective, theory, results and conclusion. Photocopies of
the relevant pages of your Data Log Book are to be attached to each summary.
Procedures
1.
Approach the lab technologist to sign on an experiment (only the first allocated report
experiment would have been registered by default) through the computer.
2.
Perform your experiment and get a demonstrator or lab technologist to sign the data
log book at the end of each lab session.
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3.
Upon completion of the experiment, fill up the “sign off” form and hand it to the lab
technologist to sign off and free up the experiment through the computer system. You
may sign on another new experiment but pay attention to Note #3 below.
PC3193 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS II
2013 / 2014
Semester I
4.
Write up Report/Summary. Use colored front cover provided.
5.
Viva: Hand in Report/Summary to the lecturer in charge of the experiment, who will
then viva you. Produce your Data Log Book.
6.
Let the lecturer sign the “tick-off” form after completing the Report/Summary and Viva
to his/her satisfaction.
7.
Submit the form to the lab technologist for updating. The credit hours will be duly
credited to your record.
Note
1.
Only experiments assigned and recorded in the computer will be recognized.
2.
Hence do not start an experiment unless it has been assigned to you through
the computer.
3.
At any one time, you are not allowed to have more than one report outstanding.
4.
If you are unable to complete an experiment within a reasonable length of time, it
may be reassigned to another student.
5.
Attendance: Attend at least two lab sessions per week. Attendance list must be
signed whenever you enter the lab to perform experiment.
6.
Medical certificates should be handed to the lab technologist within three working
days.
7.
If you have not accumulated at least 54 credit hours from the practical by 5.00pm
Fri 8 Nov 2013, you are not eligible for the oral presentation and are deemed to
have failed PC3193.
Prof Kuok Meng Hau
PC3193 Lab Coordinator
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PC3193
2013 / 2014 SEMESTER I
VIVA
You are to submit your reports/summaries to the respective staff members who will
then viva you on the experiments performed.
Prof Ng Ser Choon
Stern Gerlach
Optical Pumping of Rubidium
Second Harmonic Generation & Q-switching Gyroscope
Moseley’s Law & Rydberg Constant *
Duane-Hunt Relation *
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Peltier Heat Pump
Dr Nidhi Sharma
Prof Chowdari
Comparators
Eddy Current
Particles-Matter Interaction
Plasma Physics
Franck-Hertz
Kerr Effect
X-Ray Crystallography
X-Ray Fluorescence
Assoc Prof Mahendiran
Mossbauer Spectroscopy
Magnetostriction
Nuclear Lifetimes
Compton Scattering
Silicon Nuclear Detector
Faraday Effect
Diffraction & Polarization of Microwaves
Ferroelectric measurement
Prof Kuok Meng Hau
Zeeman Effect
Laue Diffraction
Channelled Spectrum
Laser Interferometry
Principles of Lasing
Raman Scattering
Michelson Interferometer
Assoc Prof Tok Eng Soon
Atomic Force Microscopy
Digital Video Microscopy
One-electron & Two-electron Spectra
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FTIR Spectroscopy
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy
Note: Photocopies of the relevant pages of your Data Log Book are
to be attached to each summary
* Each student may select either one only
PC3193
2013/2014 SEMESTER I
DEADLINES
By Fri 30 Aug 2013
 15 credit hours
By Fri 20 Sep 2013
 28 credit hours (inclusive of 1 report)
By Fri 18 Oct 2013
 42 credit hours
By Fri 08 Nov 2013
 54 credit hours (inclusive of 2 reports)
Last Week for Experiment
Mon 28 Oct  Fri 01 Nov 2013
Last Week for Viva
Mon 04 Nov  Fri 08 Nov 2013
Oral Presentation
Mon 11 Nov  Fri 15 Nov 2013
SCHEDULE FOR VERBAL/ WRITTEN WARNING
1st Interview
By Fri 30 Aug 2013
< 15 credit hours *
2nd Interview
By Fri 20 Sep 2013
< 28 credit hours *
Warning Letter
By Fri 18 Oct 2013
< 42 credit hours *
* Credit hours would be earned upon completion of viva by the respective dates.
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IMPORTANT:
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1. If you have not accumulated at least 54 credit hours from the practical by 5pm Fri 08 Nov 2013,
you are not eligible for the oral presentation and are deemed to have failed PC3193.
2. No viva will be conducted after 5pm on Fri 8 Nov 2013.
3. Your total credit hours in the computer records as at 5.00 pm on 15 Nov 2013 will be taken
to be the final official figure.
4. Only experiments assigned and recorded in the computer will be recognized.
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