Brownian Motion
Description
This statistical mechanics lab explores random walks. Boltzmann's constant will be measured.
Manuals
- Experiment: Media:brownian_motion_manual.pdf
- Other: Media:Brownian_motion_1.pdf
- 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 :
- 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/