Brownian Motion

Description

This statistical mechanics lab explores random walks. Boltzmann's constant will be measured.

Manuals

• Steve Wonnell's Writeup: Media:brownian_motion_manual_2015.pdf (OLD Media:brownian_motion_manual.pdf)
• American Journal of Physics Articles
  • [Nakroshis et al]
  • [Newburgh et al;] See appendices for concise derivations.
• NIST site where you can find viscosity data [1]

Particle Tracking Software

• Camera Software: Motic Images Plus 2.0 (available for PC and Mac) [2]
• Image Analysis: ImageJ [3]

The following ImageJ plugins can be used to track particles over images automatically :

1. Mtrack2 - http://valelab.ucsf.edu/~nico/IJplugins/MTrack2.html
2. Particle Tracker 2D and 3d - https://weeman.inf.ethz.ch/ParticleTracker/
3. MTrackJ - http://www.imagescience.org/meijering/software/mtrackj/