Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data.

Key Features:

  • Efficiently helps students grow into independent experimentalists through a combination of structured yet thought-provoking and challenging exercises, student-designed experiments, and guided but open-ended exploration.

  • Provides solid coverage of fundamental background information, explained clearly for undergraduates, such as ground loops, optical alignment techniques, scientific communication, and data acquisition using LabVIEW, Python, or Arduino.

  • Features carefully designed lab experiences to teach fundamentals, including analog electronics and low noise measurements, digital electronics, microcontrollers, FPGAs, computer interfacing, optics, vacuum techniques, and particle detection methods.

  • Offers a broad range of advanced experiments for each major area of physics, from condensed matter to particle physics. Also provides clear guidance for student development of projects not included here.

  • Provides a detailed Instructor’s Manual for every lab, so that the instructor can confidently teach labs outside their own research area.
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Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data.

Key Features:

  • Efficiently helps students grow into independent experimentalists through a combination of structured yet thought-provoking and challenging exercises, student-designed experiments, and guided but open-ended exploration.

  • Provides solid coverage of fundamental background information, explained clearly for undergraduates, such as ground loops, optical alignment techniques, scientific communication, and data acquisition using LabVIEW, Python, or Arduino.

  • Features carefully designed lab experiences to teach fundamentals, including analog electronics and low noise measurements, digital electronics, microcontrollers, FPGAs, computer interfacing, optics, vacuum techniques, and particle detection methods.

  • Offers a broad range of advanced experiments for each major area of physics, from condensed matter to particle physics. Also provides clear guidance for student development of projects not included here.

  • Provides a detailed Instructor’s Manual for every lab, so that the instructor can confidently teach labs outside their own research area.
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Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

by Walter F. Smith (Editor)
Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory
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Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory

by Walter F. Smith (Editor)

Overview

This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data.

Key Features:

  • Efficiently helps students grow into independent experimentalists through a combination of structured yet thought-provoking and challenging exercises, student-designed experiments, and guided but open-ended exploration.

  • Provides solid coverage of fundamental background information, explained clearly for undergraduates, such as ground loops, optical alignment techniques, scientific communication, and data acquisition using LabVIEW, Python, or Arduino.

  • Features carefully designed lab experiences to teach fundamentals, including analog electronics and low noise measurements, digital electronics, microcontrollers, FPGAs, computer interfacing, optics, vacuum techniques, and particle detection methods.

  • Offers a broad range of advanced experiments for each major area of physics, from condensed matter to particle physics. Also provides clear guidance for student development of projects not included here.

  • Provides a detailed Instructor’s Manual for every lab, so that the instructor can confidently teach labs outside their own research area.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498778800
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 03/18/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 456
File size: 25 MB
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About the Author

Walter F. Smith is full Professor of Physics at Haverford College, where he has taught the advanced lab course multiple times. He earned his PhD from Harvard University. He is co-author of 29 peer-reviewed research articles, six of which specifically focus on new experimental apparati or techniques, and maintains an active research group focused on the photoelectronic properties of organic nanowires. He is author of the textbook Waves and Oscillations: A Prelude to Quantum Mechanics. He also runs the leading website devoted to songs about physics, hosting an annual sing-along sponsored by the American Physical Society. This work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and the BBC.

Table of Contents

Fundamentals. Introduction. Literature research. Scientific ethics and plagiarism. Experimental design and rules of thumb for conducting experiments. Modeling instruments. Uncertainty analysis and the GUM standard. General approaches to troubleshooting an experiment. Tools of an experimentalist. Vacuum. Cryogenics. Analog electronics and low noise measurements. Digital electronics, microcontrollers, and computer interfacing. Optics. Microscopy. Particle detection. Fields of Physics. Condensed matter physics. Biophysics. Statistical, nonlinear, and fluid physics. Atomic and molecular physics. Optics and photonics. Quantum optics. Particle and nuclear physics
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