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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.
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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):
Syllabus and Extra Information
The sites for years 2005, 2009, 2010 contain additional information about experiments beyond that offered on this wiki. (Links may become stale if original authors remove content.)
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
LaTex
LaTex is a powerful typesetting tool that can seamlessly insert figures, render math formulae, professionally structure a paper, and include title pages and bibliography with ease.
You can find LaTex compilers and editing tools here.
Here is good quick-reference guide to LaTex formatting. (The first couple of chapters are the most useful for learning the basics; chapter three is mostly useful for reference. Beyond that involves more advanced tricks.)
Analysis Tools
- Enthought Python
- Includes numpy, scipy, matplotlib. Free for academics. Download
Wiki Related
- You can write equations on this wiki using the same math symbols as in LaTeX.
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.