Laboratory Component:
A combination of numerical exercises and laboratory
experiments will be carried out in a weekly 3 hour laboratory
session.
The lab is in and will be held at two times:
- 1:20-4:15 Monday
- 1:20-4:15 Tuesday
A bound quadrille notebook is required for laboratory
write-ups.
| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Write up |
| 1 |
|
No Lab |
|
| 2 |
Jan 27-Jan 28 |
Transverse Standing Waves on
a String.Velocity of Sound in Air |
SC1,
S2
|
| 3 |
Feb 3-4 |
Solving Partial Differential
Equations Numerically |
E11 |
| 4 |
Feb 10-11 |
Diffraction and Interference
|
LC1 |
| 5 |
Feb 17-18 |
Computer-Generated Holography |
Hologram |
| 6 |
Feb 24-25 |
Visualizing Wave Functions |
QM Simulation |
| 7 |
March 3-4 |
Electric charge and Gauss’ law |
Franck-Hertz |
| 8 |
March 10-11 |
Spectrometer and the H Balmer
Series |
L5 |
| |
|
Spring Break |
|
| 9 |
March 24-25 |
Electric Fields |
EC2 |
| 10 |
March 31-Apr 1 |
Capacitors and RC-decay
|
EC3 |
| 11 |
Apr 7-8 |
DC circuits, magnetic field |
Photoelectric |
| 12 |
Apr 14-15 |
Measurement of Charge to Mass
Ratio (e/m) for Electrons |
E6 |
| 13 |
Apr 28-29 |
Magnetism |
EC7 |
| 14 |
May 5-6 |
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope and
Differential Amplifiers.A.C. Circuits |
E8,
E9 |
| 15 |
|
Spin |
|