Lab Information
You will need a bound, quad-ruled notebook such as the "blue collar" notebook available in the bookstore for about $3, or the much nicer Ampad 22-157. This should be your "lab diary" in which you keep all lab notes, results, good data, bad data, dead ends, failed attempts, Nobel Prize-winning ideas, and so on.
You will also need the lab manual, which can be purchased through the SPS.
Each week, you should turn in a short summary of the previous week's experiment. This summary should be no more than 3 pages in length. Two pages is usually sufficient, and one well-written page will do the trick. Handwritten lab reports will not be accepted: please submit well-formatted, correctly-spelled, and grammatically reasonable work.
Click here for a sample lab writeup (which is overdone and long).
Lab Schedule
This schedule may change depending on which equipment breaks and when.
Note the changes below.
January 26 - February 2
- Intro to LabView
- Pylab
February 9
- Milli-Can
February 16 - March 1
- Johnson Noise
- Temperature Coefficient of Resistivity
- Neutron Activation and Half-Life
March 8 - 29
- Radionuclide Identification
- XRF test of Bohr Model
- Muon Lifetime
April 5 - 19
- Band Gap in Semiconductors
- Compton Effect
- Acoustic Bandgap
April 26 - May 10
- Ruchardt's Method
- Electron-Positron Annihilation
- Avogadro's Number