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Advanced Physics Laboratory - Experiment List

Wherever possible, write-ups for experiments are provided in Web, PDF and Microsoft Word formats. If any changes or improvements are made to these write-ups, please email the modified Microsoft Word document to the Course Coordinator. If the changes are significant and approved, new versions will be added here and you will be listed as a co-author.

EXPERIMENTS AVAILABLE

Code Prof TA Experiment Name Setups Room
ASL DB KP Aperiodic structures and localization 1 239
BRI HV AF Brillouin scattering 1 247
C3D NK AS Conductivity in less than three dimensions 2 245
COMP RO RF Measurement of the Compton total cross section 2 245
ESR NK RF Electron spin resonance 1 226
FAR NK AS Faraday Waves and Oscillons (NEW) 1 239
FTS HV AF Fourier transform spectroscopy 1 242
GE RO KP Gamma ray spectroscopy with a germanium detector 3 245,235A
HALL HV RF Semiconductor resistance, band gap, and Hall effect 2 239
HENE HV AF The helium-neon laser 2 242
HEL DB KP Helicons in metals 1 226
HEP RO AS High energy physics 2 243
HTC DB KP High temperature superconductors 2 239
KNOT NK AS Knots and topological transformations in vibrating chains 2 239
LAUE HV AS Laue back reflection of X-Rays 1 226
LENS NK AF Lenses 2 227
LPP DB AF Linear Pulse Propagation and Dispersion 1 246
LTC DB KP Magnetization & transition temperatures of superconductors 1 226
MASS RO RF Mass spectrometer 1 226
MOS RO RF Mossbauer effect 1 239
MRI DB RF Earth's Field NMR and MRI (under development) 0 239
MUON RO RF Muon lifetime 1 245
NEEL HV KP Phase change in chromium at the Neel temperature 1 239
NMR DB RF Nuclear magnetic resonance 1 239
PXR NK AS Powder method of X-ray analysis 1 226
OPT HV AF Optical Tweezers (NEW) 1 248
RAM HV AF Raman effect 1 248
RB HV AF Optical pumping of rubidium 1 242
RES DB KP Electrical resistivity at low temperatures 1 226
SONO RO KP Sonoluminescence 1 246
SQM DB RF SQUID magnetometer 1 239
TEM RO AS Electron microscope 1 255
UFF HV AF Ultrafast fibre laser 1 246
XRF NK AS X-ray fluorescence 1 245
SPEC DB AS Special Projects ∞ -

Professors are: DB = David Bailey, HV = Henry van Driel, NK = Natalia Krasnopolskaia, RO = Robert Orr,

Demonstrators are: AF = Amir Feizpour, AS = Aaron Sutton, KP = Kemp Plumb RF = Ryan Field,

Note: The Professor or TA for an experiment may change, locations may change, and experiments may be added or dropped during the year; check this website and the MP251 whiteboard for the most up to date information.

All rooms are on the second floor of the North Wing of McLennan Physical Labs. Here is a MAP of the second floor.

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Last updated on 13 January 2012