IU Physics P451, Experiments in Modern Physics, Spring 2003
Additional Info and Useful Links
Documents
The Art of Laboratory Logbooks
Sample experimental report and instructions
Another sample experimental report.
Written by a P451 student.
Links
"Introduction to Physics Research"
Lectures from a U. of Illinois course... lots of useful info.
Ortec "Experiments in Nuclear Science"
MIT Junior Lab
. Helpful info and ideas here.
Computing
SIGMAPLOT:
How to get sigmaplot to do weighted fits.
See the bottom of this (PSU) document.
PAW:
PAW www page
(at CERN)
Macros:
mulife.kumac
macro to histogram and fit muon life time data from
muonmca.dat
.
ivb.kumac
macro to plot and fit mag field measurements found in
ivsb2.vec
.
More PAW Macros
Rex Tayloe
Last modified: Tue Oct 21 18:28:58 EST 2003