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* Open questions | |||
* Discussion of grading and formal report | |||
** Winter break | |||
* Error propagation | |||
** Group work: example with two measured means w/ uncertainty and a converted final value. How to propagate uncertainty? | |||
** [[Physics307L:Schedule/Week 13 agenda/Error|Uncertainty propagation]] | |||
==2010 and earlier stuff== | |||
==A little bit about Physics education== | |||
* Baseball / Golf analogy | |||
* Cycling analogy | |||
* Modeling / Coaching | |||
* Assessment | |||
==How to write a formal report== | |||
===Introduction to scientific journals=== | |||
[http://pre.aps.org/ Physical Review Letters (PRL)], [http://www.sciencemag.org Science], [http://www.nature.com Nature], [http://www.pnas.org PNAS], [http://www.biophysj.org Biophysical Journal], [http://pre.aps.org/ Physical Review E (PRE)] | |||
*[http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/43/16856 Example from PNAS] | |||
*[http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/43/16868 Another example from PNAS] | |||
*[http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=12124289 Koch's example paper from grad school] | |||
===What is required in our report?=== | |||
[[Physics307L:People/Koch/Formal]]<br> | |||
===Talk about the distinction between Results and Discussion=== | |||
===Writing tips=== | |||
# Write the easiest parts first! Figures and tables are the guts of your report. | |||
==[[/PDFs|Generating PDFs from uniformly distributed random numbers]]== | ==[[/PDFs|Generating PDFs from uniformly distributed random numbers]]== | ||
Latest revision as of 12:51, 7 November 2011
2011
- Open questions
- Discussion of grading and formal report
- Winter break
- Error propagation
- Group work: example with two measured means w/ uncertainty and a converted final value. How to propagate uncertainty?
- Uncertainty propagation
2010 and earlier stuff
A little bit about Physics education
- Baseball / Golf analogy
- Cycling analogy
- Modeling / Coaching
- Assessment
How to write a formal report
Introduction to scientific journals
Physical Review Letters (PRL), Science, Nature, PNAS, Biophysical Journal, Physical Review E (PRE)
What is required in our report?
Physics307L:People/Koch/Formal
Talk about the distinction between Results and Discussion
Writing tips
- Write the easiest parts first! Figures and tables are the guts of your report.
