November 17:

• Various high-level GPIB drivers for the Agilent oscilloscope are in the "Supplemental Materials".

September 20:

• Class lecture will typically be Tuesdays. Lab will be informally extended to 6 pm for student work Tuesday; We do not necessarily full staff during Thursday hours.
• Class will meet only briefly Thursday September 30th. Lecture and labs will begin in earnest Tuesday October 5th.
• LabVIEW may be downloaded at the UWare Website with a UW Net ID and by agreeing to license conditions. You will be sent a license key to enter during the install process.

October 6:

• Turn in your homework and labs at the CollectIt Website

October 8:

• The LabView downloaded from the UWare site is the new version LV1010; the version running on the lab computers is LV2009. But there's an option in LV1010 ("SaveAs") to save the VI as version 9 (2009). Please do this so the VI runs on the lab machines and the grader sees the same LabView versions.

Lectures and Labs:
Physics & Astronomy Building, Room B280
Tuesday 3:30 - 6 pm ** See Announcement above. **

Teaching Assistants

Section AA (TA: Scott Davis)
office: B319
email: scdavis@u
phone: 206-543-9584
Office hours: TBD

Technical Support

Jason Alferness
Program Operations Specialist
Office: B256, Physics & Astronomy Building
alf@u
206 221-2974

Physics Education Group

MacKenzie Stetzer
Teaching Effectiveness Specialist
Office: C224, Physics & Astronomy Building
stetzer@phys
206 543-6390

Text: Robert H. Bishop, LabVIEW 2009 Student Edition The University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences has Site License for LabVIEW. With your UW Net ID, you can download and install LabVIEW for instructional or research purposes. More details will be provided in class.

Rough breakdown of Grading is: Lab reports (50%), homework (10%), Project (40%)

Lab Reports, project: These are usually two- (or three-) person partnerships. It should be written and submitted as a joint effort. The same grade goes to each. Text corresponding to an introduction and conclusions must be written into the VI. See the grading policy and suggestions. We will try to have the assignments submitted via CollectIt:

The names of all students in your group should be included in the VI.

Objectives: Understand how to use computers for experimental control, data acquisition, and data analysis, and understand the principles involved in each. Review and consolidate electronics knowledge. Learn the standard tool LabVIEW.

Thanks to the contributions of Prof. Jim Callis and Toby Burnett in preparing materials for this class.

This class will have a number of "Modules", each with a lecture background followed by an in class project. There will be roughly five modules to be completed in the quarter as well as a small amount of homework and finally a project of your own design. You are highly encouraged to begin thinking about your project early. The best projects are often inspired by real research group needs either inside or outside the department. A rough schedule can be seen by clicking at the above left, as well as notes and related materials.