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Advanced Laboratory

This is a wiki for the Advanced Laboratory course (173.308/608) at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The advanced laboratory involves the execution, analysis and presentation of several important measurements which helped form the foundation of modern physics. The wiki is meant to serve as a clearinghouse for information from the instructor and TAs as well as a general forum for course participants.

The Experiments

Students are encouraged to augment experiment descriptions through the associated discussions page.

Also see experiment descriptions in 2005, 2009, and 2010 below.

• Muon Lifetime
• Hall Effect
• Franck-Hertz
• Photoelectric Effect
• Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Nuclear Spectroscopy
• The Zeeman Effect
• Rutherford Scattering
• Brownian Motion
• Millikan Oil Drop
• Speed of Light

Other useful general links for the experiments (put links specific to experiments in corresponding page):

• Leybold Didactic Manuals

Syllabus and Extra Information

The sites for years 2005, 2009, and 2010 contain additional information about experiments beyond that offered on this wiki.

• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2005

Contacts

This year (2011) the instructor is Tobias Marriage (marriage@pha.jhu.edu). The TAs are Arpit Gupta (arpit@pha.jhu.edu) and Damien Benveniste (dbenveni@pha.jhu.edu).

The experiments and Physics Undergraduate Computer lab are maintained by Steve Wonnell (wonnell@pha.jhu.edu).

Location and Access

The all experiments associated with the lab are located in room 478 of Bloomberg Hall: the Physics Undergraduate Computer (PUC) lab. Access to the lab is managed by Steve Wonnell

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