Physics 3900 Laboratory

Orientation sessions for 3900 students will take place in C4044 on Monday, January 09, 2012 (Section 1) and Tuesday, January 10, 2012 (Section 2) at 2pm.

Students will start the Digital Electronics experiment on Wednesday or Thursday following.

General Information

• Introduction and course guidelines
• Schedule of Experiments
• Evaluation Scheme
• Extra Course Notes
  • Error Analysis
  • The Oscilloscope, Scintillation Counter and Laser
  • Xrays and Xray Diffraction
  • Infrared and Inelastic Laser Light Scattering Spectroscopy
  • Oscilloscope and Lock-in Amplifier Notes (pdf format)
• Formal Report Summary
• Notes on APA style (from Wooster College, Ohio)
• Online Writing Lab (Perdue)
• Tips for giving a scientific presentation (original source unknown)

Lab assignments for the remainder of the semester may be found here

Students are required to complete the Digital Electronics experiment and five other experiments, including at least one but not more than two experiments from each of Groups 1, 2 and 3. These laboratory instruction sheets are in PDF format.

• Digital Electronics
• Pin diagrams for selected IC chips

Group 1

• Fraunhofer Diffraction
• Polarization of Light (Student manual from OPTOSCI Ltd)
• Diffraction Grating
• Michelson Interferometer
• The Speed of Light

Group 2

• Chaos: The Magnetic Pendulum
• Radioactive Decay
• Electron Physics
• Determination of Debye Temperatures
• High Temperature Superconductivity (Mr SQUID Manual - complete) This experiment will be performed in laboratory Cxxxx
• Angle of Contact

Group 3

• Vortex Dipoles by Particle Imaging Velocimetry
• Vortex Streets
• Fluid Flow
• Internal Waves [Paper by Bourgault and Richards (2007)]
  • Matlab files for data analysis
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

This page last revised on January 6, 2012

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