FYS155 Laboratory Course in Physics

To understand and be able to use ideas and basic principles of physics in practical laboratory work. To understand and be able to use scientific methods. To gain practical knowledge of and skills in the ideas and principles of laboratory work. To understand how simple principles can be used to describe complicated phenomena in nature.

Students are to be able to conduct and explain experiments and exercises in physics on topics selected from the academic contents of FYS101 and FYS102. The students should especially be able to:

• keep an exact and clearly set out journal for the laboratory work
• work in a structured and planned manner
• keep the laboratory tidy, also when conducting experiments or exercises
• cooperate and communicate with the students in the lab group
• use logging equipment for collecting data
• use statistics programs, graph-plotting programs and similar for processing and presenting data and results.

Students are to understand why basic knowledge in physics is necessary to understand and describe nature and to understand, use and develop technology. The students are also to understand that physics and science are man-made tools that we use to explore nature and that nature itself is always the key to an answer.