PHYS 128AL/BL

Experiments:

Electron Charge (Millikan Oil Drop Experiment) Lab Manual [PDF]
Cavendish Torsion Balance
(Big G)
You must read and understand the UCSB ES&H Laser Safety Manual [PDF] before you perform this lab! Pay special attention to the content on page 2.

Lab Manual [PDF]
Manual for Gravity Balls (Large Spheres) [PDF]

Use the python code Capture.py to record the motion of the laser spot. Use ImageJ to process the resulting images. (ImageJ also has video capture capability.)

Cloud Chamber Lab Manual [PDF]
Manual [PDF]

Use VLC to export movies into a suitable file format for ImageJ. There is a VLC export configuration named ImageJ for this purpose.

Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Gamma Ray Introduction [PDF]
UCS 30 Manual [PDF]
Gamma Ray Lab Manual [PDF]
H-D Isotope Shift Lab Manual [PDF]
Diffraction Grating Example Problems [PDF]
Interferometery You must read and understand the UCSB ES&H Laser Safety Manual [PDF] before you perform this lab! Pay special attention to the content on page 2.

Manual for the PASCO Interferometer [PDF]
Laser Properties You must read and understand the UCSB ES&H Laser Safety Manual [PDF] before you perform this lab! Pay special attention to the content on page 2.

Lab Manual [PDF]
Instructions for equipment setup [PDF]
Free Spectral Range of a Scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer [PDF]
Notes on He-Ne and Fabry-Perot from Columbia U. E.K.A. Advanced Physics Lab [PDF]
Meredith Instruments LAB 0.8 manual [PDF]
Diode Laser Spectroscopy You must read and understand the UCSB ES&H Laser Safety Manual [PDF] before you perform this lab! Pay special attention to the content on page 2.

Web page by the manufacturer
Mössbauer Effect Lab Manual [PDF] (Updated 10/2024)
Nuclear Decay Data for Co-57 [PDF]
(Excerpt from Monographie BIPM-5 - Volume 1 (2004), at https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/monographies)
HP 33120A Arbitrary Waveform Generator Manual [PDF]
Muon Lab Manual [PDF]
TeachSpin Manual [PDF]
Information on NIM bin and modules
Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

UCSB NMR Experiment Notes [PDF]
University of Washington Paper [PDF]

Conceptual Tour [PDF]
A good overview.

PNMR procedure summary by Nate Conrad [PDF]

A note on the field strength of the magnet [PDF]

Microwave Optics Lab Manual [PDF]
Johnson Noise Johnson Noise Lab [PDF]
SR560 Low-Noise Preamplifier Manual [PDF]
SR760 FFT Spectrum Analyzer Manual [PDF]

Archive of Retired Experiments:

Since the inception of this course, we have added some new experiments to the repertoire, and we have removed others. You can find a table of the experiments that are no longer listed here.