Spring 2018

Physics 407 Advanced Laboratory 

TR 1:00-5:00pm, 3105 Chamberlin Hall

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Contact Information

Required Text:  Bevington and Robinson,   "Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences" 

Syllabus

• Syllabus
  

Supplementary Handouts

• Possibly useful notes from Ph 321
• Errors on measurements of random noise
• Tektronix Oscillocope Manuals
  
• Instrument Manuals
  

Experiments

Waves and Particles

• Compton Scattering
• Scattering of Light by Small Particles
• Ramsauer-Townsend Effect *
• X-Ray Diffraction
  • Bragg Reflection   Laue Diagrams   Laue Applet   Debye-Scherrer
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope
• Bell's Inequality
• Background material
  

Atomic Physics

• Stern-Gerlach Experiment *
• Zeeman Effect *
• Optical Pumping of Rubidium
  • Supplement: R. Benumof_AJP (1965)
• Millikan Oil Drop Experiment *

Nuclear and Particle Physics

• Beta Decay *
• Interaction of Gamma Rays
• Range of Alpha Particles
• Muon Lifetime *
• Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance *
  • Appendix: Bloch Sphere and Relaxation
• Mossbauer Scattering *

Thermodynamics of Photons and Electrons

• Thermal Noise *
• errors on measurement of random quantities
  
• Curie Temperature of Gadolinium

Quantum Condensed Matter

• Superconducting DC Squid *

Non-Linear Physics

• Universal Chaotic Behavior