Below is the lab schedule for 74:275 Modern Physics for Term 1, 2024-2025 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.

If you wish to use xmbrace/grace for graphing on your laptop, please work on getting Virtualbax installed on your computer by downloading it from virtualbox.org.

TUTORIALS AND REFERENCES

• Monday, 16 September 2024: Tutorial for Modern Physics graphing for lab reports; this file will be updated for 2024 and will be posted by 13 September 2024. Here is the older one : 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 background 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 (not in order):

• 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".