Physics Laboratories - Advanced

Location: South Physics 306-307
Supervisor: John Viner

Experiments:

1. Thermionic Emission of Electrons (escape of electrons from a metal due to thermal excitation)
2. Franck-Hertz (inelastic scattering of electrons from mercury atoms)
3. Geiger-Mueller Detector and Counting Statistics
4. Thermal Radiation (Planck's blackbody intensity distribution, Stefan's total radiation law)
5. Gamma Ray Spectroscopy (gamma ray energies in nuclear decay processes)
6. Speed of Light c (rotating mirror, Foucault)
7. Electron Charge-to-Mass Ratio e/m (orbital motion of electrons in a magnetic field)
8. Millikan Oil Drop Experiment (charge of an electron)
9. Planck's Constant h (photoelectric effect)
10. Balmer Spectrum (visible emission spectrum of excited hydrogen atoms)
11. Gravitational Constant G (gravitational torsion balance)
12. Electrical Conductivity and Hall Effect in n-type Germanium
13. Muon Lifetime
14. Alpha Particle Spectroscopy and Energy Loss in Argon Gas
15. Compton Scattering of Gamma Rays
16. Heat Capacity and Debye Temperature of Copper
17. Continuous Wave Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
18. Electron Charge-to-Mass Ratio (Magnetron Method)