I’ve written up some tips and provided some resources for Advanced Lab - I hope you find them useful, and please don’t hesitate to contact me with comments/corrections/additions.

• Formal reports
• Presentations
• Interactive Error Analysis Tutorial in Python
• Hints for deriving the gas flushing equation for $$C_p/C_v$$
• Speed of Sound
• Vacuum procedure
• Counting Statistics
• Range of $$\alpha$$ particles: The formula for converting pressure into effective distance is: $d_{\mathrm{effective}} = \left(\frac{288d}{76 \mathrm{cm Hg}(T+273)}\right)$
• Big G: There is a typo in question 24 - the correction should be 7.4% instead of 6.9%.
• Skills labs: In general, what I look for when I grade skills lab notebook entries is a detailed procedure, along with diagrams of the equipment, and also descriptions of any precautions to take or obstacles you might have faced while performing the skills lab.
• Op Amps: Detailed procedure, circuit diagrams. Also analyze the following circuits after the manner of the unity gain inverting amplifier: the summing amplifier, the difference amplifier, the inverting amplifier (of which the unity gain inverting amplifier is but a special case), and the level detector/comparator. For the integrator and differentiator circuits, the circuits provided in the lab writeup (the one that you actually build) are ‘practical’ differentiators and integrators. These are more difficult to analyze - instead, just analyze an ‘ideal’ differentiator and an ‘ideal’ integrator. You can find these described in many sources online.
• Roger Haar’s website with online versions of the lab writeups