Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.69 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Spring 2027
Advanced Laboratory
Advanced Laboratory covers experiments in classical and modern physics, emphasizing statistical data analysis and research lab notebooks.
offering recorded2–4 credits
Summary
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Past student reviews · Jim Reardon
Students reported that the instructor made them work hard, though the effort was structured to ensure they could handle diverse lab scenarios afterwards.
What you’ll be able to do
Conduct experiments collaboratively within a team and identify an appropriate conceptual framework to model experimental data.
Describe the use of instrumentation and measurement techniques employed in an experimental investigation, including the identification of systematic and random uncertainties related to those measurements.
Troubleshoot experimental apparatus, refine measurements, and improve apparatus design using a consequential and logical approach.
Analyze data by creating appropriate plots and inferring physical information from them through qualitative inspection and model fitting.
Perform uncertainty analysis using standards accepted in the scientific community.
Maintain laboratory notebooks of adequate quality for beginning graduate-level research, ensuring that experimental details and data are recorded in an organized and usable manner.
Utilize a lab notebook as a tool for organizing more complex experimental investigations and for effectively communicating results with integrity, both orally and in writing.
Synthesize all information gathered from data, including results and uncertainties, to make clear, data-driven conclusions.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
↗ average GPA
415415 letter grades
A45.8%45.8%
AB34.2%34.2%
B15.4%15.4%
BC3.4%3.4%
C0.5%0.5%
D0.0%0.0%
F0.7%0.7%
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Prerequisites
Course mapPHYSICS 307
PHYSICS 407
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Professors
Spring 2027No course-specific feedback yet.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ALESSANDRO CUNSOLO is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Calendar & sections
Spring 2027Schedule loads here as you scroll.
| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAB 001 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 13 | 0 |
| LAB 003 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 13 | 0 |
| LAB 002 | Classroom Instruction | 0 / 13 | 0 |
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
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Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Jim Reardon
The lab course was described as highly effective for building competence in various laboratory tasks, with an instructor noted for being approachable and helpful.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.92 GPA, 94.7% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.69 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=21 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Jim Reardon
Students reported that the instructor made them work hard, though the effort was structured to ensure they could handle diverse lab scenarios afterwards.
Past student reviews · Jim Reardon
The work was very independent, and the instructor offered assistance when students got stuck, providing helpful feedback in lab books and allowing corrections of mistakes.
Topics
- Classical and modern physics experiments
- Specific experiments: beta decay, muon lifetime, NMR, Stern-Gerlach, Mossbauer, velocity of light, Zeeman effect, Compton scattering
- Statistical analysis of experimental data and research lab notebooks
Skills
- Statistical analysis of experimental data and uncertainty analysis
- Maintaining research lab notebooks for graduate-level research
- Collaborative experimentation and conceptual modeling
- Instrumentation and measurement techniques with uncertainty identification
Grades
Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A71.4%71.4%
AB23.8%23.8%
B0.0%0.0%
BC0.0%0.0%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.0%0.0%
F4.8%4.8%
Grades over time
Through Spring 2026
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Catalog & offerings
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Catalog observation history
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Selected offering source records
Advanced Laboratory
Recorded 2026-10-14Raw records
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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance
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