| Course Title: Intermediate Lab in Physics |
| Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2026 |
| Description: This lab-based course is an introduction to modern, investigative, experimental physics. The course is intended as a bridge between the structured introductory lab experience and independent research. In addition to exploring key physical phenomena crucial to modern understandings and gaining familiarity with modern experimental apparatus and techniques, students complete exploratory projects of various sorts and then extended, multi-week experimental projects, participating in experimental design, construction, debugging and implementation. Students will present and interpret their experimental results and develop follow-up questions which they will answer experimentally. This course will introduce students to scientific communications skills and is speaking- and writing-intensive. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , SI - Speaking-Intensive , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Kerstin Nordstrom | knordstr@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | KNDD - Kendade | G03 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: PHYS-201. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Waitlisted | Capacity: 12 | Enrollment: 14 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 6 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Experiments in Modern Physics Author: Melissinos, Adrian C. and Jim Napolitano Copyright: 2003 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0124898513 Publisher: Academic Press |
Required | 100.80 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |