IU Physics P451
Experiments in Modern Physics
Fall 2005 (class no. 20584)

Syllabus and Announcements

Syllabus
Week Date Activity
1 9/1 Intro, begin 1st Introductory Experiment
2 9/8 finish 1st Introductory Experiment
3 9/15 do 2nd Introductory Experiment
4 9/22 do 3rd Introductory Experiment
5 9/29 do 4th (final) Introductory Experiment
6 10/6 begin 1st Core Experiment.
7 10/13 Core experiments
8 10/20 Core experiments
9 10/27 Core experiments
10 11/3 Core experiments
11 11/10 Nuclear Physics using the 200 MeV Cyclotron beam (start 9am)
12 11/17 Nuclear Physics using the 200 MeV Cyclotron beam (start 9am)
-- 10/24 Thanksgiving recess
13 12/1 Core experiments
14 12/8 Final presentations on 4th Core experiment. SW 238 - 1:30-4:30. We will go in alphabetical order, each person will have 15mins + 5mins for questions. We'll have a transparency machine and a computer projector.

Introductory Experiments
Team Assignments

For the first 5 weeks of class we'll work in teams, so as to complete the introductory experiments. Here are the team assignments for each week:
Assigned Experiment for...
who? Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5
Richard, Greg gamma-rays gamma-rays vacuum data acqu Poisson
Dave, Keith vacuum vacuum data acqu Poisson gamma rays
Ryan, Matt magnet magnet Poisson vacuum data acqu
Katherine, Evan Poisson data acqu gamma rays magnet vacuum

Core Experiment Assignments
For the latter weeks of class we'll work on the core experiments as individuals, here are the experimental assignments.
Assigned Experiment for...
Person Weeks 6-8 Weeks 11 (12) Weeks 9-13 Weeks ..
Evan black-body pp scattering thermion emmiss ..
Dave Hall effect pp scattering Optical pumping ..
Richard cosmic rays pp scattering Faraday effect ..
Matt chaos pp scattering black-body ..
Ryan n activation pp scattering Fabry Perrot ..
Katherine beta spectrum pp scattering Hall effect ..
Greg Faraday effect pp scattering cosmic rays ..
Keith Optical pumping pp scattering n activation ..


Hans-Otto Meyer
Last modified:11/1/2005