The Art of Experimental Physics

Fills the need for an experimental physics text. There are three main sections of the text. The first is an introduction that offers valuable insights into the importance of the human element in physics and traces the course of its historical development. This section also explains the objectives of the physics laboratory and the skills you must master to maintain a &‘grave;Notebook'' and analyze data, and presents a general discussion of spectroscopy experiments. The second section discuss...