Nabin K. Malakar, Ph.D.

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I am a computational physicist working on societal applications of machine-learning techniques.

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Saturday, June 5, 2021

Use of smartphones in experimental physics...


Diffraction Experiments with a Smart Cart
The Physics Teacher 59, 272 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0004155
Writes: The use of smartphones in experimental physics is by now widely accepted and documented.1–5

I included one of the smartphone lab using the camera to find the focal length of the phone's camera lens. 


  • 1.
    M. Monteiro, C. Stari, C. Cabeza, and A. Marti, “The polarization of light and Malus’ law using smartphones,” Phys. Teach. 55, 264 (May 2017). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4981030Google ScholarScitationISI
  • 2.A. Shakur and J. Kraft, “Measurement of Coriolis acceleration with a smartphone,” Phys. Teach. 54, 288 (May 2016). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4947157Google ScholarScitationISI
  • 3.Martín Monteiro, Cecilia Cabeza, Arturo C. Marti, Patrik Vogt, and Jochen Kuhn, “Angular velocity and centripetal acceleration relationship,” Phys. Teach. 52, 312 (May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4872422Google ScholarScitationISI
  • 4.Martín Monteiro, Cecilia Cabeza, and Arturo C. Marti, “Rotational energy in a physical pendulum,” Phys. Teach. 52, 180 (March 2014). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4865529Google ScholarScitationISI
  • 5.A. Shakur and T. Sinatra, “Angular momentum,” Phys. Teach. 51, 564 (Dec. 2013). https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4830076Google ScholarScitationISI
  • Saturday, June 2, 2012

    Common Student Mistakes in Lab Report

    One of the TA duties of graduate students is to instruct in Lab and grade the lab reports. The report writing aspect of lab is very useful skill, which students can learn and also find it useful later in their career.

    Here is a list of common mistakes the students make in the lab report (in no particular order):

    • Use the wrong date (often use the date they do write-up rather than the date of the lab)
    • Forget their lab partners last/name
    • Wrong format for name, lab, etc
    • Introduce the lab rather than simply state their objective
    • Forget to define the equation variable in the theory
    • Forget to relate theory to experiment
    • Forget to put units (or wrong units)
    • Not state general equations
    • Error not 1 sig fig or rounded down
    • Value corresponding to error has more decimal places than the decimal place of the error
    • Forget to put title on the graph or have x vs y instead of y vs x
    • max/min lines not encompass all of the points and their error
    • Not labeling the y-intercepts and/or the slopes (or labeling incorrectly)
    • Majority of the graph space left unused
    • Use data points instead of graph points to find the slope
    • Forget to compare equation of a line with theory equation
    • Not restate results to prove statements in discussion and conclusion
    • Use human error such as "I may have calculated wrong" or "human reaction time" in the sources of error.

    Would you like to add that you have encountered?

    Adopted from
    http://www.unbc.ca/assets/physics/labs/phys_labs_common_mistakes.pdf

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