Modern Physics Lab
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.
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
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
Other Experiments
- ORTEC AN34--Experiments in Nuclear Physics