Physics 416 
Winter 2012
PRB3122, PRB3133
Office Hrs. W 12:30-1:30
or
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PRB3122, PRB3133
Office Hrs. W 12:30-1:30
or
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Administrative Stuff
Welcome & Grade Policy pdf
Lectures
Lecture 1 pdf
Lecture 2 pdf
Lecture 3 pdf
Lecture 4 pdf
Lecture 5 pdf
Lecture 6 pdf
Lecture 7 pdf
Lecture 8 pdf
Homework
Homework 1 pdf
Homework 2 pdf
Homework 3 pdf
Homework 4 pdf
Homework 5 pdf
Homework 6 pdf
Laboratory
Laboratory 1 pdf Standard Tools pdf
Laboratory 2 pdf Geiger Counter manual pdf
Laboratory 3 pdf
Laboratory 4 pdf MCA manualpdf Note on Nuclear physics pdf
Laboratory 5 pdf
Laboratory 6 pdf
Reading Gamma Ray Scintillation Spectroscopy
Our Standard Tools
WxDev-C++ Tutorials Using wxWidgets (We don't really need this)
A Quick Guide to SciDAVisPyMinuit installation (windows)
Other Tools commonly used
CODEBLOCKS:A stable version of c++ complier also with a large following
Nearly identical to wxdevc++ Quincy has a large following
MATLAB another analysis/plot tool
Matlab scripts to perform fits
Maple Tutorial (Mathematical calculations, has a nice statistics package)
Plots for Lectures (most done using Maple, these can be done as easily using Mathematica)
Lecture 2 - Binomial Widths pdf mw
Lecture 2 - Coin Toss Average PDF pdf mw
Lecture 2 - Poisson Limit of Binomial pdf mw
Lecture 2 - Histogram Bin Errors pdf
Lecture 3 - Gaussian Limit of Binomial pdf mw
Lecture 3 - Central Limit Theorem (square wave convolution) pdf mw
Lecture 3 - Gaussian Limit of Poissonian pdf mw
Lecture 4 - PDF Ratio of single Gaussian pdf maple
Lecture 4 - Bessel Correction pdf
Lecture 4 - PDFs instead of Error Propagation (mathematics beyond course scope)
Lecture 5 - Likelihood Fit pdf
Lecture 6 - Least Square Fits pdf
Lecture 7 - 2 parameter gaussians pdf
Lecture 7 - Full Line Fit (Least Squares) pdf
Lecture 8 - Student-t pdf
Useful Statistics Pages
Mean and Standard Deviation:
Dice Throws
Monte Carlo
Bad Random Number Generator (1960...)
Binomial Distribution
Poissonian Distribution
Confidence Intervals
Central Limit Theorem
Correlation
Bayes Theorem
Linear Regression
Linear Regression
Chi-Square Integral
Statistics in Gambling
Statistics in Football
Statistical Mechanics
Statistics Humor
Statistics Publications
High Energy Physics