PHYS 575A, B, C - Special Topics in Experimental Physics:

Radiation and Detectors

Autumn Quarter, 2012 3 graduate credits OR 3 Continuing Education Units Meets: Tuesdays, 6:30-8:50pm Room: Physics-Astronomy Building, Room A-114 OR -- available online at the same time Labs: Two special sessions for hands-on work in lab, Physics-Astronomy Room B-260 (3 hr each, Saturdays - dates to be confirmed in class)   Instructor: R. Jeffrey Wilkes Kenneth Young Memorial Professor, Department of Physics B303 Physics Astronomy Building, 543-4232 wilkes@u.washington.edu

• New resource - Lecture recorded !  Our 10/09/12 Adobe Connect session's audio was recorded and is available  here. This should launch an Adobe Connect window, and play back the class. Try it! (Because we had the audio on one laptop and the slides moving on another, this recording does not have slide changes sync'd with audio.)
  For future lectures, go to PHYS 575 Moodle page (see link below), scroll down to "Session {week number}" in the center column, and you will find link to recordings.
  
• See link below for newly posted Lab Handouts. Read all 3 before lab session on Thursday, 10/11.
• Course syllabus and calendar has been revised - please revisit (10/02/12)

  have been updated recently)

•   Links to Adobe Connect recordings of lecture sessions
  
• Documents for lab sessions (writeups and handouts) - will appear here 1 week beforehand.
• Required textbook: Knoll, Glenn F., Radiation Detection and Measurement, Wiley,  3rd ed., 2000 (or 4th ed., 2012)
  
•   Course syllabus and calendar
• Course information (updated to include deadlines for reports)
• Link to course management (Moodle) page: http://moodle.extn.washington.edu/course/view.php?id=2839
  The Moodle page has links to course information, pdf files for class slides, and Adobe Connect.
  (However, this website should be your primary information source! I may not update the Moodle page as frequently as this site)
  
• Link to Adobe Connect for online attendance: http://uweoconnect.extn.washington.edu/phys575/
•   Copies of slides shown in class will appear here, one hour before class.
  
• Watch this space for further course information...

To request forms for course registration, or for questions about registration, please contact:

Kim Michaelis
Program Administrator (for help with PCE administrative functions: course registration, tuition payment)
206-685-6312
kmechaelis@PCE.UW.EDU

Physics Professional MS Program contacts:

For information about the Physics Professional MS Degree Program, see Physics PMSP home page, or contact :

Radiation (particles or photons) and radiation detectors of many kinds are crucial for acquiring information on physical phenomena and performing quantitative measurements in applied physics, astrophysics, health sciences and many other fields. 

This course will combine lectures with a seminar-discussion format. We will provide an overview of the nature of particle and photon radiation, their interactions with matter, and radiation effects. Sensors and detector systems for nuclear radiation and subatomic particles, and their applications in particle astrophysics, medical diagnostic imaging, industrial R&D, and basic research will be discussed. Specific material covered will depend upon interests of students.

Students will be expected to make brief, informal presentations, reporting on topics they have chosen to investigate. The instructor is an experimental particle physicist.

Intermediate level physics courses (E&M, QM, and thermodynamics), or equivalent engineering courses.

a) Students matriculated in the UW Physics Evening MS Degree Program.

b) Anyone with adequate undergraduate preparation in a physical science, mathematics or engineering, including the prerequisites listed above. You may enroll for this class as a graduate non-matriculated student (GNM),  or as a Certificate student, without joining the degree program. Please contact PCE for further information.

c) Full or part time UW graduate students, from any college or campus.

• This course is the first in a sequence of 3-credit courses offered for a Certificate in Radiation Physics by the UW Physics Department. For information on how to register for the Certificate program, please contact UW Professional and Continuing Education (PCE).
  
• All 3 sections meet at the same time and participate in class activities together. However, grading and assigned work may be different for CEU and Graduate students.
  
• Students in the Certificate Program will receive 3 Continuing Education Units for this course. This course is a prerequisite for subsequent courses in the certificate sequence. Certificate students register in Section C (via PCE program #4129)
• Graduate students will receive 3 credits for this course.
• Students matriculated in the Physics Professional MS degree program (or Physics GNM students) may register for Section B (SLN 18710) of this course as an elective through PCE, as for other Physics evening courses; if they complete the entire 3-course sequence, "With Concentration in Radiation Physics" will be recorded on their transcript.
  
• Students matriculated in any other UW graduate degree program may register in Section A (SLN 18709) via MyUW.
• The first few weeks of class will be talk and discussion (in lecture room A-114). We will agree upon dates/times for the 2 lab sessions (in advanced-lab classroom B-260).
• Students may attend any session online via Adobe Connect. Attendance in person is recommended but not required, except for 2 lab sessions.