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THIS MATERIAL IS FROM A PREVIOUS SEMESTER FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION ONLY.

 

PHYS 1301 – Ideas of Modern Physics

Spring 2015  Laboratories

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

 

Before each lab you should read through the linked manual listed below. Unless otherwise stated, you should write (before the lab) and then submit (at the beginning of the lab) one-sentence answers to each the questions:

WHY is the lab being done (context)?

WHAT will be measured and calculated (procedure)?

HOW will the measurements be made (apparatus)?

Here is a WHY/WHAT/HOW example

 

During the lab you will be writing your results. Example lab report format.

 

The manuals:

 

See Syllabus for schedule of labs.

 

·         Numbers  Do not write a WHY/WHAT/HOW. Just read Chapter 1.1

·         Measurement Error

·         Magnetic Particle Accelerator

·         Speed of Light

·         Introduction to Special Relativity

·         More with Special Relativity

·         Free Fall

·         Hubble’s Law

·         Probability (this lab will be done in the Wednesday lecture class)

·         Diffraction

·         Hydrogen Spectrum

·         Radioactivity

·         Copenhagen film. Before the lab, view only the introduction from 1:00 to 10:30 min and, instead of WHY/WHAT/HOW, write responses to this quiz and submit at the start of the lab. Questions to answer after watching the movie in the lab.

·         Particle Identification. Before the lab, read the parts of the web pages on Introduction and on Detector.  Instead of WHY/WHAT/HOW, write responses to this quiz and submit it at the start of the lab.