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Experimental training of physics students is an essential element of the undergraduate program. While at the freshman and sophomore levels students are generally required to perform a set of simple experiments with significant help from the instructor, students at the junior and senior levels are required to perform experiments tackling more complicated problems and requiring more experimental skills and deeper understanding of a diverse range of physical phenomena. The experiments are designed to improve the students' critical and analytical thinking. These experiments should give students appropriate training on using modern experimental equipment to measure physical quantities, and analyzing the data using advanced methods in data reduction and error analysis to derive relations and make conclusions. Improving the scientific writing skills of the students is also a critical component of this course.