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:             Once a week as needed.

Place:                           Laboratory spaces and instructor’s office

 

We will do three 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. 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 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.  

  

Project One

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.

 

Project Two

Complete the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiment. There is a reference manual on the experiment station.

 

Project Three

Complete the Sonoluminescence experiment. There is a reference manual on the experiment station.

 

Project Four

Complete one Optical Pumping experiment. There is a reference manual on the experiment station.

 

 

Each experiment/report takes up to 33.3 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  <=    is  F