PHYSICS 4200 INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXPERIMENTS

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  1. Band Gap in Semiconductors
  2. Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
  3. Hall Effect
  4. Mass of Electron from Compton Scattering (If doing Gamma Ray Spectroscopy also it should be done first)
  5. Muon Lifetime
  6. NMR/ESR
  7. Precision Interferometer: Michelson & Fabry-Perot
  8. Optical Spectroscopy II (includes Quantum Dots)
  9. X-Ray Apparatus  (new version Fall 2015)
  10. Zeeman Effect 
  11. Range and Energy of Alpha Rays (Ortec version)
  12. Franck-Hertz Effect In 3 Gases 
  13. Thermal Efficiency. Instructions available from this web site: http://www.pasco.com/file_downloads/product_manuals/Thermal-Efficiency-Apparatus-Manual-TD-8564.pdf.
  14. Lock In Amplifier and Frequency Response Experiments (Lock In Amplifier parts can be done separately from Frequency Response parts)
  15. Determination of PN Junction Temperature in LEDS
  16. Determination of Boltzmann's Constant from Johnson Noise