PHYSICS 47100EF SPRING 2024 (MR408) M 4:00-5:00 (Lab:MR422)

General Information:

• Syllabus: [html] [pdf]
• Text Book(s):
  • An Introduction to Error Analysis, John R. Taylor.
  • Experiments in Modern Physics, Adrian C. Melissinos and Jim Napolitano.
• Matlab:
  • Get Matlab (and other software) through CCNY.
• Contact Professor Shattuck:
  • Email: [markdshattuck@gmail.com]
  • Office: [T1M-16] or [MR-419]
  • Lab: [MR-328]
  • Phone: (212) 650-8161
• Office Hours: M 2:00-4:00p (MR-422/MR-419) or by appointment.
• Physics Department: [Tutoring] [Home] [Info] [FAQ]

Resources:

• Introduction to MATLAB
• Matlab Code for Introduction to Molecular Dynamics
• MATLAB fitting demo.

Problem Sets:

1. Problem Set 1 - [pdf]

Final Exam:

• Final Exam
• Data for Final Exam

Lab Schedule:

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Lab Reports:

• Report Template [Overleaf] [pdf] [tex] [zip] [doc]
• Overleaf RevTex General Template
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List of Physical (At Home) experiments:

1. Density of Spaghetti [Data (example)] [Data Template (empty)] (Data Due:2/5/2024)
2. Vibrational frequencies of a cantilever (Data Due:2/12/2024) (Report: Due:5/13/2024)
3. Virtual Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
4. Gravitational Acceleration

List of computational experiments:

1. Molecular Dynamics Simulation Laboratory (Report: Due:5/6/2024)
2. Equation of state for hard disks (Under Construction)

List of physical experiments:

1. Measurement of the speed of sound in a metal rod (Report: Due:2/26/2024)
   • Supplemental: Introduction to the oscilloscope
2. The Gyroscope: Experiments 1,3-4 [Wireless Rotary Motion Sensor ] (Report: Due:3/18/2024)
3. Optical interferometer (Report: Due:4/1/2024)
4. Radioactivity [P2] [Manual] [ST360] (Report: Due:4/29/2024)
5. Measurement e/m for electron (Lorenz force)
6. Electron diffraction
7. Frank-Hertz Experiment [Hg] [Ne]
8. Photoelectric effect [P2]
9. Microwave optics
10. Chaos
11. Optical Spectra
12. Millikan Oil Drop [PASCO documentation]
13. Optional/Extra Credit: [Noise] [Optical Diffraction]

Previous Classes Taught:

• PHYS 203 [F2008] [F2009]
• PHYS 204 [S2001][F2001][F2002][S2004][F2004][F2005][S2006]
• PHYS 207 [F2003][S2005][F2010]
• PHYS 208 [S2003]
• PHYS 351 [F2022] [S2023]
• PHYS 399 [F2023] [F2024]
• PHYS 371 [F2013] [F2015] [F2016] [F2017] [F2018] [F2019] [F2020]
• PHYS 471 [S2012] [S2014] [S2016] [S2017] [S2018] [S2019] [S2020] [S2021] [S2024]
• PHYS U856 Granular Materials [S2002][S2004]