Miriam Diamond

PhD Candidate, Experimental High-Energy Particle Physics

Teaching: PHY132 2015W

Error Analysis

Error Analysis in Experimental Physical Science guide on UToronto Practicals website. Particularly useful sections:
- Reading Error: Section 6
- Propagation of Errors of Precision: Section 9
- The Error in the Mean: Section 10

Waves

- Babinet's Principle: why light hitting a small solid object creates the same interference pattern as light encountering a hole of the same dimensions
- Single-slit diffraction reference from Hyperphysics
- Thin-lens equation reference from Hyperphysics
- Magnification and Image Formation reference from Hyperphysics

Electricity and Magnetism

- Spiders spinning electrically-charged silk for stickier webs!
- Electric potential for a point charge reference from Hyperphysics