PHYSICS 149: ADVANCED LABORATORY II
Independent, Student Research-level Experiments
Offered each SPRING
semester.
Teacher: Athanasios Petridis
Harvey Ingham, room 31C
Phone: (515) 271-3723
E-Mail: Athan.Petridis@drake.edu
Meeting Time: Friday 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm and/or when needed.
Place: Harvey Ingham Hall, Room 215.
We will do four projects this spring. Lab reports are the same as when you took Advanced Lab I. Use the guidelines you received at that time. We will schedule weekly meetings of each group on Friday afternoons for the discussion section. Several faculty may attend each of these sessions. The projects are lengthy. You are responsible for having all projects done by the end of the semester, but don't delay working on them. You might have to work on more than one project at a time in order to complete your work. Each project should take approximately 2-3 weeks. You should turn in your lab report for each experiment one to two weeks after its completion. All reports should be ready by the beginning of finals week. You may do the projects in the order you prefer.
Complete one of the major project sections in the Spectroscopy Lab. The manual is in Room 19. Most sections have multiple experiments. Choose the one that interests you the most. Choices are:
1. Identification of Spectra using a Czerny-Turner Spectrometer
2. The Isotopic Structure of Hydrogen
3. The Fabry-Perot Interferometer
4. Molecular Spectra of Diatomic Molecules
5. Intensity Calibration of Spectra
6. Zeeman Effect
Complete a project on Gamma-ray Spectroscopy using the computerized multichannel analyzer. You'll have to figure out how to make it work (step-by-step) and what is happening. An outline of the project is available as a handout.
Complete one of the two following computer projects:
1. Monte Carlo calculation of the mean free path of
electrons in air. An outline of the
project is available as a
handout.
2. Solving the Shroedinger equation for the carbon monoxide molecule.
An outline of the project is available as a
handout.
Complete the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiment. There is a reference manual on the experiment station.
Each experiment/report takes up to 25 points. The following is a scale for the total number of points collected.
Grading: 100 <= points <= 85 is A
85 < points <= 75 is B
75 < points <= 65 is C
65 < points <= 50 is D
50 < points <= 0 is F
The above scale is used only as a guide. The final letter grade is assigned according to the instructor’s opinion of the student. No extra-credit assignments are offered during or at the end of the semester.