Fall 2000
 

 List of experiments:

1. Optics:

IO.1 Fabry-Perot Interferometer

IO.2 Michelson Interferometer
(measure the refractive index of air and the splitting of the yellow doublet of sodium atom -- good first expt.)

IO.3. Prism Spectrometer
(measure the dispersion curve for glass.
(Good first expt.)

IO.4. Polarization of light on reflection from a dielectric surface (glass),and comparison of the results with Fresnel equations.

IO.5. Elliptically Polarized Light

IM.1. Franck-Hertz Experiment
(inelastic scattering of electrons on the mercury  atom.)

IM.2. Charge to mass ratio of the electron.
(J.J. Thomson's experiment -- Good first expt.)

IM.3. Nuclear decay and counting statistics
(learn about Geiger Mueller counter, measure halflives of radiaoctive nuclides, and get some notions of counting statistics).
 

IE.1. The earth's magnetic field ;
(measurement of the earth's magnetic field with a flip-coil)

IE.2. The Cavendish balance
(measurement of the gravitational constant with a torsion pendulum)

IE.3. Hysteresis curve for iron.
(measure the magnetization of an iron ring)

IE.4. Operational Amplifiers
(build amplifiers using opamp.chips)