| Experiments | Physical Concept | Reference Materials | |
| 1. Millikan Oil Drop | Charge of the electron | Melissinos (1.2), Instruction Sheet | |
| 2. Spectroscopy | Identifying elements from spectral lines | Melissinos (1.4), Experiment Description, |
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| 3. Charge-to-mass ratio | Charge-to-mass ratio of the electron | Web Page | |
| 4. Planck's Constant | Measuring the "quantum of action" photoelectric effect | Instruction Manual, Krane (3.2) Basic Procedure (WH) Spectral response of the LEDs csv files: F472, F505, F525, F588, F611 |
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| 5. Radioactive Half-Life | Lifetime of Barium-137 | Melissinos (8.6), Krane (12.6,9,10) 1. Nuclear Spectroscopy, 2. Student's Manual 3. Energy calibration of the PMT 4. Utube video of NaI doped with Thallium & PMT |
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| 6. Geiger-Muller Tube | Absorption ceoefficient for radiation in matter |
Melissinos (8.3.4) 1. Geiger counter, 2. Characteristics of GM tube, 3. Energy loss of alpha particles in air, 4. Poisson Distribution, 5. Attenuation and Range experiments 6. Cobalt-60 decay diagram 7. Absorption Plot for gamma rays in aluminum |
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| 7. Zeeman Effect | Two valence electrons in transition Magnetic moment of the electron |
Melissinos (6.5), Web Page, Krane (7.8) | |
| 8. Franck-Hertz Experiment | Discrete energy transfer through atomic excitation | Melissinos (1.3), Web Page, Krane (6.6) Experiment Description |
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| 9. Electron Diffraction | Interatomic spacing of carbon atoms |
MP-2, KK (4.2) |
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| 10. Cavendish Balance | Calculate the universal gravitational constant, G | Classical Physics writeup Fitting program using Mathematica |
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| 11. Bragg Diffraction | Calculate the interplaner spacing in a salt crystal | Instruction sheet |
| Lectures | Description | Reference Materials |
| 1. The Bohr Atom | The velocity, radius, and energy of the hydrogen atom | |
| 2. Mathematica | Examples using Mathematica | Homework Assignment |
| 3. Fitting a Straight Line | Fitting Data with Error Bars DetFit7.m |
Taylor--chapter 8
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| 4. Non-linear Fits | Introduction to Chi-Square and Error Analysis Fitting data with error bars (chi-square) program |
Newton Cooling
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| 5. Error Analysis | Error Propagation | Taylor--Chapter 3.11 |
| 6. Chi-Square Distribution | Calculating Errors and Confidence Levels Properties of the reduced chi-square |
chisquare.nb Taylor--Chapter 12 ReducedChiSquareFunction.nb |
| Spring Calendar 2025 |
Other relevant material:
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Probability Distribution Functions--Monte Carlo
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Things I should know about writing my formal report.
3. Solutions to Mathematica homework.
4. LaTeX material and
a sample paper, but also copy the following two graphics graphic 1 and the following graphic 2 into the same folder so your latex program can find it. And copy the bibtex file as well.
5. Mathematica Stuff -- examples of Mathematica programs applied to physics problems.
6. Website describing Helmholtz coils.
7. Sample formal writeup.
8. Weekly Checklist and Grading Rubric for the 2-day labs.
9. Weekly Checklist and Grading Rubric for the 3-day labs.
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