Physics307L:Schedule/Week 12 agenda

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

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)

• Example from PNAS
• Another example from PNAS
• Koch's example paper from grad school

What is required in our report?

Physics307L:People/Koch/Formal

Writing tips

1. Write the easiest parts first! Figures and tables are the guts of your report.