Semester:	Spring 2021
Instructor:	Cemal Yalabık
Office:	Room SA-228	Phone 1316
	This will be a 100% online course! The best way to contact the instructor out of class is through email at and arrange for a zoom meeting if necessary. My Office Hours this semester will be Fridays 12:30 - 13:30 and I would prefer to have the meetings during those times, but we can arrange other times if necessary.
Assistant:	Mahsa Seyedmohammadzadeh		Room SA-203

About the course:
This course intends to impart to the student, knowledge and capabilities associated with basic research methods and tools needed to carry out research in Physics. The course will involve 2 hours/week of classroom instruction in which the student will be exposed to such subjects as literature and citation search through indices, planning and carrying out research procedures, research ethics, use of scientific computer tools for statistical analysis, report construction and presentation. Class hours coincide with the Faculty Colloquium times, and there will be no class on Colloquium days. The students are expected to attend the colloquia on those days.

The course will proceed in relation with a project on a specific topic in physics or a closely related area. The course will expose students to research through projects that require no prior knowledge beyond the high school level.

Teaching goals include practicing critical thinking, analyzing cause and effect relationships, planning controlled experiments, as well as gaining familiarity with useful skills such as literature search and scientific document preparation.

Homework:
The project activity and classroom topics will generate regular assignments aiming to provide sufficient practice of the tools thought during class.

Grading:
The grading will be based on the progress of the student's research project, which will be assessed regularly during the semester through the reports and presentation material that will have to be prepared. Students will also be graded on the presentation of their project at the end of the semester.

Homework performance will also affect the final grade.

	Literature search homework	10%	Due
	Project proposal	10%	Due
	LaTex homework	10%	Due Thursday, Mar. 18
	Project progress report	10%	Due
	Numerical modeling homework 1	10%	Due
	Numerical modeling homework 2	10%	Due
	Project report	10%	Due
	Project presentation material	10%	Due
	Project presentation	20%

The homework is to be submitted through the Moodle system, in the form of a PDF file.
Please name the file in the format:

You can view your grades through the Stars system.

Course Schedule:
	First meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 3, 15:40 - 17:30 in Zoom Room SA-Z02
Lectures:	Wednesdays	15:40 - 17:30	Zoom Room SA-Z02

Some examples of student project presentation material from previous years