Lab Information
You will need a bound, quad-ruled notebook such as the "blue collar" notebook available in the bookstore for about $3. 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 2 pages (one is usually fine.) Handwritten lab reports will not be accepted: please submit well-formatted, correctly-spelled, and grammatically reasonable work. Electronic submission of lab reports is encouraged, but please use a format that is readable on all common operating systems. I recommend PDF format, generated by Latex, but you are welcome to use Mathematica notebook format or OpenDocument as well.
Click here for a sample lab writeup.
Lab Schedule
January 29
- Milli-Can
February 5 -- February 12
- Gnuplot
- Intro to LabView
February 19 -- March 11
- Avogadro's Number
- Muon Lifetime
- Half-Life
- Ruchardt's Method of Cp/Cv
March 25 -- April 15
- Temperature Coefficient of Resistivty
- XRF Bohr Model
- Speed of Light
- Compton Scattering
April 22 -- May 13
- Radionuclide Identification
- Bandgap
- Electron/Positron Annihilation
- Phonons in 1-D Crystal