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

Professors are: DB = David Bailey, KB = Ken Burch, NK = Natalia Krasnopolskaia, YK = Young-June Kim,
Demonstrators are: AF = Amir Feizpour, AS = Aaron Sutton, KP = Kemp Plumb

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

Experiments with zero setups listed are either under repair and may become available, or are under development and would require extra student effort beyond a regular experiment.

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

Physics Department | Faculty of Arts & Science | Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering | University of Toronto

Last updated on 3 January 2013