Course Description
The “Experimental Physics” laboratory contains experiments from Modern Physics, Optics, Solid State Physics, Nuclear and Atomic Physics topics. Students will perform experiments assigned to them twice a week.
Course Content
List of experiments:
1. Error Analysis
2. Stefan’s Constant
3. Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment
4. Bragg’s Diffraction with Microwaves
5. Magnetic Hysteresis
6. Faraday Rotation
7. Electron Spin Resonance
8. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
9. Michelson’s Interferometer using Sodium Lamp
10. Michelson’s Interferometer using He-Ne Laser
11. Diffraction of He-Ne Laser Beam by 2D Objects
12. Concave Grating Spectrometer, Rowland Mounting
13. Iodine Absorption Spectrum
14. Zeeman Effect
15. Fluorescence of Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate (U.N.H)
16. Measurement of Lifetime of Photoluminescence
17. Hall Effect
18. Temperature dependence of Hall effect
19. Magnetoresistance and its Field Dependence
20. Electrical Resistance of Superconductor
21. Ionic Conductivity of Alkali Hallide
22. G. M. Counter, Counting Statistics and g Absorption Cross Section
23. Proportional Counter
24. Gamma Ray Spectrometer
25. Beta Ray Spectroscopy
24. X-Ray Diffraction
25. Study of Thermoluminescence of Colour Centers in Crystals
26. Electrical Conductivity and Bandgap Measurements
27. Photoconductivity Experiment
28. Planck’s constant
29. Characteristics of Microwave Generator (Klystron)
30. Study of Gunn Oscillator
31. Electro-Optic Effect
32. Kerr Effect
33. Phase Transition in BaTiO3
34. PE Hysteresis
35. AC Susceptibility of a High TC Superconductor
36. Electrical and Thermal conductivity in metals
Course Audience
MSc (2 yr), MSc-PhD dual degree and BS-MS students