Experimental physics : principles and practice for the laboratory / edited by Walter Fox Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Walter Fox, editor.

Emma Louise McClellan Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physics--Experiments--Textbooks.

Physics.

Physics--Experiments.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xi, 437 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Fundamentals

1. Introduction / Walter Fox Smith

2. Planning and Carrying Out Experiments / Walter F. Smith

3. Presenting Your Results / Walter F. Smith

4. Uncertainty and Statistics / Paul Thorman

5. Scientific Ethics / Grace McKenzie-Smith

pt. II Tools of an Experimentalist

6. Analog Electronics / Walter F. Smith

7. Fundamentals of Interfacing Experiments with Computers / Walter F. Smith

8. Digital Electronics / Brian Collett

9. Data Acquisition and Experiment Control with Python / Jami Shepherd

10. Basic Optics Techniques and Hardware / Walter F. Smith

11. Laser Beams, Polarization, and Interference / Michael Ware

12. Vacuum / Walter F. Smith

13. Particle Detection / Joseph Kozminski

pt. III Fields of Physics

14. Development and Supervision of Independent Projects / Melissa Eblen-Zayas

15. Condensed Matter Physics / Walter F. Smith

16. Biophysics / Mason Klein

17. Non-Linear, Granular, and Fluid Physics / Nathan C. Keim

18. Atomic and Molecular Physics / Glenn Stark

19. Photonics and Fiber Optics / Walter F. Smith

20. Experiments with Entangled Photons / Enrique J. Galvez

21. Nuclear and Particle Physics / Brett Fadem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Emma Louise McClellan Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781498778473

149877847X

OCLC:

1140118647

Publisher Number:

99987342572