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PHYS-4315: Modern Experimental Physics

Description: Representative apparatus, techniques, and phenomena of contemporary research. Includes electrical measurements, computers, thermometry, vacuum deposition, machine shop, nuclear spectra, experimentation related to major developments of modern physics.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 2 credits

Prerequisites: PHYS-3314

Required By: PHYS-4316

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 47

Average GPA: 3.73 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 64.47%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.26%

Jonathan M Link200792.6%7.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.893
Ramaswamy S Raghavan201169.0%25.5%3.1%0.0%2.4%0.0%3.587
Jean J Heremans202382.0%15.6%1.5%0.2%0.3%0.4%3.7534
Alfred L Ritter200583.3%13.3%3.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.653

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