Abstract
For fifty years an advanced laboratory course has been one of the major course offerings of the Department of Physics at Cornell. It has been taken by all undergraduate physics majors and by almost all physics graduate students, potential theorists and experimentalists alike. During this period of time, the course has gone through many changes, both in “philosophy” and in facilities. Instead of the ten or a dozen students of forty years ago, the enrollment is now over 100 and requires the teaching time of eleven staff members and a full-time laboratory technician. The Department receives many requests for information about the course, requests for the list and description of the experiments offered, and about the general pedagogical format. Many other universities have established courses in its pattern. It is the purpose of this paper to provide a rather general description of the course, a description that might be of interest to a physics student, to a teacher, or to a person interested in the teaching of physics.
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