Participants should try to arrive between 9.45 and 10.15.  Please report to the TUSLIP table just inside the main entrance of the School of Physics and Astronomy on the North Haugh site of the University of St Andrews.  Those who have pre-booked experiments should register on one master sheet, while those who have yet to choose their experiment should sign up for one of the experiments that is still available.  Travel Suggestions

Work in the teaching laboratories will be conducted in pairs (sometimes threes), and in most cases there will be several students tackling the same topic. There is a range of experiments available, each of which we hope visitors can complete within 100 minutes. These are mostly adapted from experiments that our students undertake.  Many are relevant to work that visitors will be doing in Advanced Higher Physics.  Our staff and students will be on hand to guide, offer assistance, and to comment on achievements. They will also be happy to answer any queries of a more general nature. The experiments are taken from the lab work that our first and second year students do. Generally, those tackling the first year experiments will receive more verbal instructions on what to do, and those tackling the experiments in later labs will be expected to work more from the printed sheets. In both cases though, our staff and students are there to help - please use them! We will provide a sheet entitled "Experiment Record", but please bring your own pen, pencil, ruler, and calculator. Where both members of a pair are from one school, please would they use this one sheet between them to record details as requested (if the two experimenters are from different schools, then please use one sheet each). Please ask our demonstrators to comment on this sheet and your results before leaving the labs.  These experimental studies may be useful for part of your AH studies; please discuss with your teachers in advance.

At 12.05 visitors will join a first year lecture on waves and optics. We have been asked by teachers to let their pupils experience a conventional lecture. It is a lecture from part way through the 16-lecture course. We hope most of it will be comprehensible to our visitors. We have specifically been asked to give a "real" lecture, rather than a gee-whiz-wow special set of demonstrations - some of which are included later in the programme. We have sometimes been able to let TUSLIP visitors join a scheduled first year lecture, but timetabling this year did not permit this. However, the lecture that is being given to you is one that Dr Bruce Sinclair will be giving in a few weeks later to our first year class. The waves and optics course is one of three that together make up one module in the first year at St Andrews. A total of six modules are usually taken in this year. Visitors are encouraged to try to take notes from this lecture in the same way that our students would, so please bring pen and paper. We expect our students to take notes from the lecture, possibly supplement these notes with information from text books, and certainly annotate further when going over them later the same day. Subsequent working on tutorial questions allows a good practice of the physics involved.

After the lecture visitors should make their  way to the main concourse for lunch.  Visitors are asked to bring their own packed lunch with them.   Some limited refreshments will be available for purchase from the vending machines. Staff and students will be present for you to ask them any queries that you may have about being a physicist. 

The afternoon gives the opportunity for sixth year pupils to interact with current students, to hear about career opportunities using physics, and to hear short presentations, some with demonstrations, on aspects of phyiscs and astronomy.  

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