Quantum Physics Laboratory 415
Physics 415 is the advanced undergraduate physics laboratory at
WSU.
It is appropriate for science majors and beginning graduate students
who
have had a basic course in modern physics such as Physics 303.
Experiments
in modern and quantum physics are carried out primarily using detection
of nuclear radiations. For further information, contact
Prof.
Gary Collins at 335-1354, collins@wsu.edu.
Experiments include:
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Detection of beta-rays, x-rays and gamma-rays
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Interactions of radiations in matter. Absorption and scattering.
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Mass of the electron measured using elastic scattering of photons
and
electrons (Compton scattering).
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Ionization energy of hydrogen determined from x-ray energies (Moseley's
law)
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Annihilation of antimatter (angular correlation of annihilation
radiation)
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Surfaces studied at atomic resolution (scanning tunneling microscopy)
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Iinteraction of nuclear moments with fields in solids (nuclear gamma
fluorescence;
Moessbauer effect)
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Relaxation times of nuclei in liquids (pulsed nuclear magnetic
resonance)
Choices
January 2002, GSC. You are visitor 
to this page since October 1996. Return to Gary
Collins's instructional home page. Laboratory instrumentation used
in this course was made possible through grants from the Department of
Physics, College of Sciences and National Science Foundation under
grant
PHY 89-51582.