Brownian Motion
Description
This statistical mechanics lab explores random walks. Boltzmann's constant will be measured.
References
- 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]
Some Particle Tracking Software
The following ImageJ plugins can be used to track particles over images automatically :
- Mtrack2 - http://valelab.ucsf.edu/~nico/IJplugins/MTrack2.html
- Particle Tracker 2D and 3d - https://weeman.inf.ethz.ch/ParticleTracker/
- MTrackJ - http://www.imagescience.org/meijering/software/mtrackj/