Announcements
This site is for the retrieval of
- Guides and auxiliary material for each experiment.
- Textbook and auxiliary material for statistics.
- Guides to using scientific notebooks, writing experimental reports, and giving talks.
- Guides to using LaTeX.
We will use Canvas for all communication between students and instructors, submission of assignments, and grade reporting. When contacting instructors, please be sure to include all instructors.
Course Material:
- Syllabus
- Laboratory Notebook Guidelines
- LaTeX template for PHY4803L Reports (clicking on this link will create a new project in Overleaf).
- Oral Presentation Guidelines
- Statistics homework sets
Course Experiments:
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Group I - Particle / Nuclear Physics
- Cosmic Ray Muons and the Muon Lifetime
- Gamma-Gamma Correlation
- Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
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Group II - Condensed Matter Physics
- Low Temperature Transport
- High Tc Superconductivity
- Pulsed NMR
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Group III - Spectroscopy
- Visible Spectroscopy
- Rotation Vibration Spectrum of the HCl Molecule
- Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy
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Group IV - Optical Scattering
- Dynamic Light Scattering
- Optical Tweezers
- Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
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Group V - Other Topics
- Xray Diffraction
- Quartz Crystal Tuning Fork in Superfluid Helium
- Chaotic Vibrations
Resources:
Natural Constants:
Statistics:
- Statistical analysis writeup (with exercises)
- Statistical analysis of data PowerPoint presentation
- Addenda:
- Excel workbooks:
- Workbook demonstrating correlated variables
- Workbook demonstrating slope-intercept correlation
- Workbook using Solver for Poisson variables
- Workbook on linear regression with calibration uncertainty
- Workbook on linear regression using linear algebra
- Workbook on Gauss-Newton/gradient/Levenberg-Marquardt algorithms
- Workbook on G-N/gradient/L-M algorithms with Poisson variables
- Workbook on chi-square distributions
- Workbook demonstrating Excel's linear regression and Solver program
- Introduction to Measurement in the Physics Laboratory: A probabilistic approach