Course Identification

This is an obligatory course for all 1st year MSc students in Physics. The course intends to expose the students to experimental physics, via hands on experience in labs as well as lectures by experimental PIs in the faculty.

During the 1st semester there will be 2-4 weekly hours of frontal presentation by various experimental PIs, presenting their lab activity. Between the 1st and 2nd semester there will be 6 weeks of hands on lab experience, split into two 3 weeks projects that will be performed in two different labs.

At the second week of the 2nd semester each student will need to participate in a one full day of presentations, where she/he will give a seminar about their project and hear about the projects done by other students.  

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate some practice in laboratory /experimental work.
2. Produce relevant questions concerning the research.
3. Identify and explain the theory behind experiments.
4. Formulate results of experiments and present them in a lucid way in a seminar.
5. Have a good perspective on what it means to do experimental physics
6. Have a broad view of all the experimental activity performed in the faculty of physics