Additional Information and Useful Links

 

IU Physics P451/551, Experiments in Modern Physics
Fall 2006 (class #20396/22338)

 

Documents

·         a short course in error analysis

·         Keeping a good Laboratory Logbook

·         How to write an experimental report

·         Sample experimental report. Written by a P451 student.

General

·         SI Units

·         Fundamental Physical Constants

·         Unit Conversion

·         Powers of 10 and Prefixes

·         Properties of the Elements

·         Periodic Table and Isotopes

·         Resistor Color Code ( really cute)

·         Resistor Color Code (new)

·         Capacitor Color Code

·         More...: all kinds of physics and astronomy stuff

Links

·         "Introduction to Physics Research" Lectures from a U. of Illinois course... lots of useful info.

·         Ortec "Experiments in Nuclear Science"

·         MIT Junior Lab . Helpful info and ideas here.

Computing

·         PAW:

o        PAW www page (at CERN)

o        Macros:

§         mulife.kumac macro to histogram and fit muon life time data from muonmca.dat .

§         ivb.kumac macro to plot and fit mag field measurements found in ivsb2.vec.

§         More PAW Macros

Hans-Otto Meyer

Last modified: July 2005