Below is the lab
schedule for 74:275 Modern Physics for Term 1, 2023-2024 year.
Labs begin at 1:40pm on Mondays in either BB2-34 or BB2-35 on the second floor of the Brodie Building.
Watch your email for instructions pertaining to the lab manual, instructions in pdf form may be distributed by email and/or posted here for download.
Labs begin at 1:40pm on Mondays in either BB2-34 or BB2-35 on the second floor of the Brodie Building.
Watch your email for instructions pertaining to the lab manual, instructions in pdf form may be distributed by email and/or posted here for download.
Please work on getting Virtualbax installed
on your computer by downloading it from virtualbox.org.
TUTORIALS AND REFERENCES
- Monday, 11 September 2023: Tutorial for Modern Physics : graphing_with_grace-2020.pdf
- Lab Report advice and format from Dr. Fugleberg: LabFormat.pdf
- Here is a grace quick reference to making a graph: grace_quick-ref.pdf
- Dr Foster's combination of Errors Quick Reference pdf: Errors_QuickReference_273.pdf
- This pdf has some backgound on the propagation of uncertainties and errors: propagation_of_errors-2019.pdf
- Details on using remote control on zoom. This allows are remote user to control s/w etc on another remote machine: zoom_remote_control.pdf
LABS:
- Michelson Interferometer Lab instructions: Michelson-Pasco8501-2023.pdf
- Charge to mass ratio for electron: e_over_m.pdf
- Millikan Oil Drop experiment: Millikan.pdf Here is additional data in the form of an xmgrace file: Millikan_extra_data_4students.agr
- 2020 Blackbody files, watch here for further links and files.
- Blackbody Radiation Lab Instructions 2023 file: Blackbody Radiation Instructions.pdf
- Table Angle from RMS angle instructions and data: 2020spect5
- Instructions for data analysis for 2020 blackbody lab: 2020 black body analysis.pdf
- 2020 advice for fitting BB curve to 2020 data: bb_fit_advice_2020-v1.pdf,
please use this document, not 2019's bb_fit_test-v2.pdf.
- 2020 Photoelectric Effect: 2021_photoelectric.pdf
- Here is a scan of the RCA 934 phototube datasheet: RCA934_phototube_specs.pdf
- A link to a document discussing phototubes: etuttle_phototube_link
- Characteristic curves for five filters used for taking data: filter_curves_photoelectric_lab.pdf
- Data for plotting Current as a function of Retarding Voltage: photoelectric_data_5filter.txt
- Franck-Hertz Experiment: Franck-Hertz.pdf
- Data for Franck-Hertz experiment: Franck-Hertz.dat
- OLD: Discrete Spectra GLX version: discrete_spectra.pdf
- Possible 2020 Discrete Spectral (SpectraSuite version): This is the software we will use for 2019 since one GLX has a keyboard problem and the software cannot be easily moved: Here is the manual for SpectraSuite: SpectraSuite.pdf Have a quick look at Chapter 3. We will just be using arc lamps and the sun for sources. Also look for the setting called "integration time".
OLD 2019 Blackbody data, etc:
Blackbody Radiation: Blackbody
Radiation Instructions.pdf
- Blackbody Radiation conversion equation for copying into xmgrace: Table angle [degrees] to wavelength [nm]: formula_check.txt
- Blackbody data collected on each spectrometer: spect1, spect2, spect3, spect4
- Blackbody youtube vid with some Pasco equipment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnBZf1RfB-w
- Blackbody xmgrace plotting advice: bb_fit_test-v2.pdf