PHYSICS 248
DESCRIPTION
HOMEWORK
EXAMS
LABORATORY
 
PHYSICS 247
PHYSICS 249
 
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
PHYSICS DEPARTMENT
PLASMA PHYSICS GROUP
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

 

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. 1:20-4:15 Monday
  2. 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

 

Prerequisites:  calculus, high school physics.  

Good luck! And have fun!

Instractors

Prof. Dan McCammon
Office: 6207
Chamberlin Hall
Office Hours:
Fridays 2:30p.m.
Tel: 608-262-5916
Email:

mccammon@wisp.physics.wisc.edu

Prof. Cary Forest
Office: 3277
Chamberlin Hall
Office Hours:
Tuesday 8 -9p.m.
Tel: 608-263-0486
Email:

cbforest@wisc.edu

Michael Schneider

Office: B608
Sterlin Hall
Office Hours:
Monday 9a.m.

Wednesday 12:30p.m.
Tel: 608-263-2234
Email:

mlschneider@students.wisc.edu

Students:

   
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