This page contains additional resources for the
EKA Advanced Physics Laboratory Course (W3081 and 4051)
at Columbia University. The main page is located here

• General
  • Basics of Error Analysis
  • Package of error analysis files by Jeremy Carlo
  
  
  
• Quantum Hall Effect
  • Quantum Hall effect video tutorial and references
  • QHE theoretical background
  • QHE first order corrections
  • OLD-Classic Hall Effect Primer
  • NEW-Classic Hall Effect Manual
  • NEW-Classic Hall Effect additional measurements
  • Classic Hall Effect extra page


• Optical Pumping
  • Lab manual by T. Dumitrescu and S. Endlich
  • Reference paper by R. Benumof


• Electron Diffraction
  • Updated manual for Electron Diffraction part of Milkikan


• Muon Lifetime
  • Revised lab manual
  • MATLAB script for selecting events
  • MATLAB script for concatenating events and saving as a single file (for upload into Excel, etc.)
  • MATLAB script documentation


• Quantized Conductance
  • Lab manual
  • Poster: A Tabletop Measurement of the Quantization of Electrical Conductance in Gold Nanowires


• Laser
  • Why lasers are spatially coherent and other laser FAQ


• Fraunhofer diffraction
  • Calculate the precise wavelength of the diode laser by comparing the diffraction pattern of a HeNe to the diffraction pattern of the diode laser.


• Laser Tweezers/Brownian Motion
  • Video analysis instructions
  • Video analysis code for generating frames from video
  • MATLAB Brownian motion software from Georgetown (preferred method)
  • !!!DO NOT GO TO THE BROWNIAN MOTION PAGE FOR BERKELY REFERENCED IN THE LAB MANUAL!!!
  • Instead, go to here: Backup Brownian motion software from the Berkeley Advanced Lab
  • Laser trapping applet (Glasgow Univ.)
  • Tweezing instructional video:
    • Part 1 - Safety
    • Part 2 - Introduction
    • Part 3 - Alignment
    • Part 4 - Procedure


• Gravitational Lensing
  • Manuals
  • Introduction
  • Summary of Basic Knowledge
  • Getting Started
  • Software Resources
  • fv software download
  • fv help guide
  • Or for those who prefer ds9: ds9 software
  • References
  • Excerpts from D.H. Perkins


• Counting Statistics
  • Reference on the isotopes of Indium by Lawson and Cork, 1937
  • Consult William R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, esp. for information on weighted average for appropriate binning. Leo


• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
  • Refernece manual for the magnet


• Coincidence Counting
  • Videos in the original DVD format (.vob). Can be viewed with a variety of video programs such as VLC.

Conductivity

• manual

Last updated September 10, 2013
Ken Sikes, Department of Physics, Columbia University
sikes AT phys.columbia.edu