Next offered Spring 2007
Contact Prof. Lyman Page
Past Student Projects:
2006 Microscope interferometery by Emily Kosten and Peter Combs
Laser Microphone by Seth Blumberg, Joel Thompson and David Zaslavsky
Magnetic Leviation by Lenny Shulgin, Eric Berglund, and Howard Yu
2005 Balancing a pencil on its tip with feedback by Caleb Howe, Greg Haislip and Lear Janiv
Wire chamber for muon detection by Martin Niederste-Ostholt, Ariel Kleinerman, Jess Riedel and Corey Ritter
Magnetic properties of superconductors by Shankar Iyer, Giwan Kim, Yijia Eric Lu and Leizhi Sun
Properties of superfluid helium by Yu Gan, Godfrey Miller and Carl Boettiger
2004 Electromagnetic Railgun by Denis Erkal, Ma'ayan Bresler, Paul Nelson, and Aaron Wertheimer
Electron Cyclotron by Austin Akey, Josh Brodie, Lucy Jacobson, and Mike White
Single Bubble Sonoluminescence by Aaron Kleinman, Aly Spencer, Dan Recht, and Nitesh Paryani
Properties of Plasma Discharge by Richard Aspinall, Ying Gao, Scott Schiffres, and Teddy Wieser
2003 Laser Optical Tweezers by Adam Hopkins, James McClave, and Nhan Tran
Ultrasound Ranging by Steven Andrews and Blake Robinson
Temperature of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation by Srivas Prasad
Superconducting Tunneling Junctions by Ursula Pavlish, Josh Burton, and Cullen Blake
Lab/Lecture 1: LabView Tutorial
Handouts: Syllabus
LabView Tutorial
LabView Quick Guide
LabView Reference
Lab/Lecture 2: Signal Recovery Techniques
Electronic circuits
Handouts:Signal Recovery
Electronic Circuits and Feedback
Lab/Lecture 3: Cosmic ray detection
High Energy Physics
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Cosmology
Solar cell fabrication
Semiconductors
Vacuum Technology
Semiconductor applets
PN Junction
Conduction through PN diode
Conduction through bipolar transisor
Other semiconductor applets
Lab/Lecture 4: Superconductivity
Condensed Matter Physics Part I: Superconductivity
Condensed Matter Physics Part II: Superconductive Quantum Interference Devices
Atomic Spin Magnetometer
Atomic Physics
Lab/Lecture 5: Optics and Microscopy
Microscopy
Class handouts:
LabView Tutorial
LabView Quick Guide
LabView Reference
Signal Recovery
Electronic Circuits and Feedback
High Energy Physics
Cosmology
Semiconductors
Vacuum Technology
Condensed Matter Physics Part I: Superconductivity
Condensed Matter Physics Part II: Superconductive Quantum Interference Devices
Optics
Additional information on advanced topics:
Semiconductors and electronic devices links
Overview of Semiconductors
p-n junction
Manufacturing of intergrated circuits
Steps in manufacturing process
P-N junction
Conduction of P-N junction
More Semiconductor Applets
Cosmic Microwave background
Introduction to Cosmic Microwave Background
Discussion of Cosmic Microwave Background
High Energy Physics
Cosmic ray showers
Professional-strength particle physics review
LEP Z-decay Java simulator
Pictures from high-energy detectors
CDF Detector (Fermilab),
D0 event, top quark (Fermilab),
L3 event, Higgs candidate (CERN),
STAR event (BNL),
Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector
Useful links
Free Evaluation copy of LabView (Need to register with National Instruments)
Literature Search Databases
Web of Science
INSPEC
Superconductivity Links
A Guide to Superconductivity,
Superconductuvity Cocepts,
SQUIDs: A popular account,
SQUIDs: A technical Report
High Temperature Superconductors
Other Topics
Laser operation
Major high-energy physics laboratories
FermiLab, near Chicago, home to the highest energy proton-anti-proton collider.
SLAC, near San Francisco, the largest linear electron accelerator and B meson factory for testing CP violation.
BNL, Long Island, home to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, colliding gold nuclei
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, home to the largest e+-e- circular collider and future Large Hadron Collider.
KEK, Japan, home to a B-meson factory for study of CP violation.
Other Links
American Physical Society
Society of Physics Students
Shareer Zahan & Friends and Arif Nurahman
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