Lamb Shift
Pulsed NMR
Hanle Effect
Franck-Hertz Experiment
University of Washington Advanced Laboratories
Locations
Rooms B248, B260 and B280
Physics/Astronomy Building
(Located at the corner of NE Pacific St. & 15th Ave NE)
University of Washington, Seattle Campus
Experiments
The links below provide public access to information concerning experiments that are done in the advanced laboratory courses. Depending on which "track" of physics a student is majoring, between 1 and 3 of the following courses are required beyond physics 334 (analog electronics).
Physics 331 - Optics
- Speed of Light
- Concave Diffraction Grating
- Fabry-Perot Interferometer
- Michelson Interferometer
- Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction
- Reflection from an Air-Dielectric Interface
- Faraday Rotation
- Holography
Physics 334 - Electronics 1: Analog
- Lab 1 - Introduction and DC circuits
- Lab 2 - Capacitors
- Lab 3 - Resonance and Diode Circuits
- Lab 4 - Transistors 1
- Lab 5 - Transistors 2
- Lab 6 - Op-Amps 1
- Lab 7 - Op-Amps 2
- Lab 8 - Positive Feedback and Oscillations
Physics 335 - Electronics 2: Digital
- Lab 1 - Introduction to Digital Logic
- Lab 2 - Flip-flops and Sequential Logic
- Lab 3 - Counters, Binary Number Systems, and Displays
- Lab 4 - Analog/Digital Conversion
- Lab 5 - Introduction to Microcontrollers: The PIC16F88
- Lab 6 - Microcontroller Pulse-Width Modulation
- Lab 7 - Microcontroller PWM Waveform Generation
- Lab 8 - Microcontroller Sonic Ranger
Physics 431 - Condensed Matter
- The Hall effect
- Electron Diffraction
- Fundamental Constants from Noise Measurements
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
- Physical adsorption
- Low temperature superconductivity in Hg
- The Mössbauer effect
- Continuous NMR
- Pulsed NMR
Physics 432 - Atomic Physics
- Hydrogen-deuterium mass difference
- X-ray fluorescence
- The Hanle effect
- The Franck-Hertz experiment
- Phase sensitive detection
- Ammonium inversion spectrum
- Rubidium optical pumping
- The Zeeman effect in mercury
- The Lamb shift in hydrogen
- Pulsed NMR
Physics 433 - Nuclear & Particle Physics
- Oscilloscopes and Nuclear
Electronics
- Time Measurement
and Counting
- Energy
Measurement
- Proportional
Counters and Tubes
- Muon Detection
and Counting Statistics
- Compton
Scattering
- Muon Lifetime
Measurement
- Electron
Drift Velocity in Gases
Data and Error Analysis Information
The following links point to articles that give information on experimental uncertainty and how to calculate and present uncertainty in lab reports. (These are provided to our students in the advanced labs.)
- Notes on data analysis and experimental uncertainty (elementary treatment with many useful hints, by David Pengra and L. T. Dillman).
- Quickie Statistics Summary (from Physics 331).
- LSQFit.xls: an Excel spreadsheet that will calculate a fit line using full weighting of uncertainties; also calculates reduced χ2. From the Methods of Experimental Physics course at the University of Minnesota (written by Kurt Wick).
- Notes on making a least-squares fit to a line in Microsoft Excel (from physics 331).
- Examples of error propagation (from the University of Chicago).
- Error Analysis and Signal Averaging notes from Prof. Bob Van Dyck
Oscilloscopes and function generators
Oscilloscope and function generator exercise