Senior Lab meets every Monday and Wednesday from three to five p.m. It is traditionally taught only in the fall semester however in this upcoming year it will be taught in the spring semester as well due to student demand. The class meets in the stylish Workman 195 shown below.

In addition to experimentation the instructor supervising senior lab, Kenneth Minschwaner, stresses being able to know and apply techniques of error analysis to data taken during the lab. To this end a textbook is required, Introduction to Error Analysis, by J. R. Taylor, and readings with problems will be assigned from this book during the course of the class. Dr. Minschwaner will also teach the basics of writing a scientific paper and writing scientific abstracts.

A final exam will be administered in class over the experiments covered and error analysis techniques that have been learned. The final grade of students in the class breaks down as follows.