701-0033-00L Laboratory Course in Physics for Students of Environmental Sciences
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2019 |
| Lecturers | M. Münnich, A. Biland, N. Gruber |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Comment | Enrollment is only possible under https://www.lehrbetrieb.ethz.ch/laborpraktika. No registration required via myStudies. For further information visit: https://ap.phys.ethz.ch Only students from 3th Semester BSc Environmental Sciences on are admitted to this lecture. |
| Abstract | The course provides an individual experience of physical phenomena and the basic principles of experiments. By carrying out simple physical experiments the students learn the proper use measuring instruments, the correct evaluation of report of the measured data and how to interpret the final results. |
| Learning objective | This laboratory course aims to provide basic knowledge of - the setup of a physics experiment, - the use of measurement instruments, - various measuring techniques, - the analysis or measurement errors, - and the interpretations of the measured quantities. |
| Content | The students select 6 out of 18 experiments which they like to conduct. For each of these experiments the students will analyze the data they measure estimate the error of there measurements and compare these with the physical theory. |
| Lecture notes | Manuals for the experiments are provided online on the Moodle pages of the course. |