Physics 407 Advanced Laboratory - Spring 2009

Contact Information

Instructor: Prof. R. Prepost
Office: 4271 Chamberlin Hall
Phone: 262-4905
E-mail: prepost@hep.wisc.edu

Instructor: Prof. R. McDermott
Office: 5112 Chamberlin Hall
Phone: 263-4476
E-mail: rfmcdermott@wisc.edu

General Lab Handouts (PDF format)

• General Instructions

Experiments (PDF format)

Waves and Particles

  Compton Scattering

  Ramsauer-Townsend Effect

  Speed of Light and Laser Studies

  X-Ray Diffraction  Bragg Reflection  Laue Diagrams

  Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Atomic Physics

  Stern-Gerlach Experiment

  Zeeman Effect

  Optical Pumping of Rubidium

Nuclear and Particle Physics

  Beta Decay

  Interaction of Gamma Rays

  Range of Alpha Particles

  Muon Lifetime

  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

  Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

  Mossbauer Scattering

Thermodynamics of Photons and Electrons

  Thermal Noise

  Curie Temperature of Gadolinium

Quantum Condensed Matter

  Superconducting DC Squid    Superconducting rf Squid

Non-Linear Physics

  Universal Chaotic Behavior