33-340 Modern Physics Laboratory

Units: 10.0 Department: Physics Prerequisites: 33-234 and (33-331 or 33-338 or 33-341) Related URLs: http://www.phys.cmu.edu/ Emphasis is on hands-on experience observing important physical phenomena in the lab, advancing the student's experimental skills, developing sophisticated data analysis techniques, writing thorough reports, and improving verbal communication through several oral progress reports given during the semester and a comprehensive oral report on one experiment. Students perform three experiments which are drawn from the areas of atomic, condensed matter, classical, and nuclear and particle physics. Those currently available are the following: Zeeman effect, light scattering, optical pumping, thermal lensing, Raman scattering, chaos, magnetic susceptibility, nuclear magnetic resonance, electron spin resonance, X-ray diffraction, Mvssbauer effect, neutron activation of radioactive nuclides, Compton scattering, and cosmic ray muons.

Popularity index Rank for this semester: #226 Rank in this department: #15   Students also scheduled 33-332 Physical Mechanics II 33-302 Undergraduate Colloquium IV 33-339 Intermediate Electricity and Magnet... 33-446 Advanced Quantum Physics II 88-120 Reason, Passion and Cognition 33-439 Intermediate Electricity and Magnet... 33-402 Undergraduate Colloquium VI 21-341 Linear Algebra 33-466 Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosm... 24-231 Fluid Mechanics

Spring 2005 times

Sec	Time	Day	Instructor	Location
1	8:30 - 9:20 am	T	Schumacher, Garoff	DH A200
A	10:30 am - 12:20 pm	T	Instructor TBA	DH MA341
	9:30 - 10:20 am	T	Instructor TBA	WEH 7423
		R	Instructor TBA	WEH 7423
	10:30 am - 12:20 pm	R	Instructor TBA	DH MA341
B	2:30 - 4:20 pm	T	Instructor TBA	DH MA341
	1:30 - 2:20 pm	T	Instructor TBA	DH A200
		R	Instructor TBA	DH A200
	2:30 - 4:20 pm	R	Instructor TBA	DH MA341