Modern Physics Lab

Important Information

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If you have any questions or concerns regarding the modern physics laboratory, please address them to Dr. Christine Cheney, Director of Undergraduate Physics Laboratories. She can be reached at ccheney@utk.edu. Her office is located in Room 404 of the Nielsen Physics Building.

• Spring 2015 Syllabus for Physics 461: Modern Physics Lab
• Fall 2014 Syllabus for Physics 461: Modern Physics Laboratory

Experiments

• The Hydrogen Balmer Series and Rydberg Constant
• Radioactive Half-Life of Barium-137m
• Attenuation of Radiation
• Photoelectric Effect
• Poisson Statistics
• Hall Effect
• FTIR Experiment
• Compton Scattering
• Lock-In Amplifier
• Muon Physics
• Temperature Dependent Lifetime of Fluorescence from a Phosphor
• EMCO Thermographic Phosphor Labkit Instruction Manual
• X-ray Diffraction
• Zeeman Effect
• LabView and Maple Analysis
• Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• A Conceptual Tour of TeachSpin’s Pulsed NMR
• Speed of Light with a Rotating Mirror
• Speed of Light in an Optical Fiber
• Pasco Cavendish Experiment
• Cesium Heatpipe Experiment

Resources

• Data Analysis Basics

  • Data Analysis Write-up by Dr. Bradley Armen
  • Tutorial on Excel Solver

   

• Radiation Safety Training

  • Statement from the University Safety Officer Concerning Badging for the Modern Physics Lab
  • Sealed Source Users Training Module
  • X-ray Users Training Module

Links

• Other Experiments

  • ORTEC AN34--Experiments in Nuclear Physics

• Vendor Web Sites

  • TeachSpin