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GRE Review: Lab Methods

This document provides advice for reviewing lab methods for the GRE exam. It recommends reviewing how to calculate errors, how lasers work, reading data charts and instrumentation output, and calculating current, resistance and voltage in circuits using Kirchoff's Law and understanding series and parallel circuits, capacitance. Additionally, it suggests skimming over Giancoli's "Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Volume II" textbook for basics and reviewing practice problems involving the Michelson Interferometer.

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GRE Review: Lab Methods

This document provides advice for reviewing lab methods for the GRE exam. It recommends reviewing how to calculate errors, how lasers work, reading data charts and instrumentation output, and calculating current, resistance and voltage in circuits using Kirchoff's Law and understanding series and parallel circuits, capacitance. Additionally, it suggests skimming over Giancoli's "Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Volume II" textbook for basics and reviewing practice problems involving the Michelson Interferometer.

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GRE Review: Lab Methods

Officially, this section contains: “data and error analysis, electronics, instrumentation, radiation
detection, counting statistics, interaction of charged particles with matter, lasers and optical
interferometers, dimensional analysis, fundamental applications of probability and statistics”

After looking through the practice tests, the key things to review are how to calculate errors, how
lasers work, how to read data charts or instrumentation output, and how to calculate I, R, and V
given a circuit diagram (i.e. Kirchoff’s Law, series vs. parallel, capacitance, etc.).

A good textbook to skim over for the basics is Giancoli “Physics for Scientists and Engineers:
Volume II”.

(And I noticed a few practice problems involving the Michelson Interferometer – check out
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/MichelsonInterferometer.html .

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