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PHYS 1301 – Ideas of Modern Physics

Spring 2014

Laboratories

· Laboratory organization

· Laboratory Sessions: Fri 1:00-2:50 pm, 3:00-4:50 pm in 60 Fondren Science.

· Laboratory manuals: (see Syllabus for schedule of labs)

How to write an Abstract.

Exemplary lab report.

· Measurement Error

· Magnetic Particle Accelerator

· Speed of Light

· Introduction to Special Relativity

· More with Special Relativity

· Free Fall

· Hubble’s Law

· Diffraction

· Probability

· Hydrogen Spectrum

· Radioactivity

· Copenhagen film viewing. No abstract or manual – watch the video introduction 1:00 to 10:30 (just the intro, not the whole movie) and type responses to the pre-lab quiz, print out and submit quiz at the start of the lab.

· Particle Identification. No abstract – before the lab read the web pages on Introduction and on Detector. Type responses to the pre-lab quiz, print out and submit quiz at the start of the lab. Procedure for the lab itself is here