Physics Skills 1

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• They should also be capable of keeping a record of laboratory work in a logbook, and have learnt the requirements for presenting the results of experimental work in a report.
• After studying this course, students should have developed their experimental skills by performing and analysing a number of investigations in the laboratory.

The course begins with a brief introduction in the first week; two weeks are dedicated to topics in Data Analysis supported by guided experimental activities.

For eight weeks, the class is divided into sub-groups which cycle through a series of experiments, each experiment exploring a particular subject. Each experiment runs over two weeks and involves preparation and exercises, experimental work, and data analysis. During the experiments a personal laboratory logbook is kept which includes a self-contained and complete record of the activity.

The final week of the course focuses on developing scientific writing skills, in which the class uses of one of their completed experiments to write a concise scientific report.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.