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OverviewThe student's companion website and the instructor manual can be accessed here. 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. The manual can be accessed here. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Walter F. SmithPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Weight: 0.725kg ISBN: 9781032336657ISBN 10: 103233665 Pages: 452 Publication Date: 13 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Preface...................................................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgments...................................................................................................................................... xi Part I Fundamentals 1. Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 3 Walter Fox Smith 2. Planning and Carrying Out Experiments...................................................................................... 7 Walter F. Smith 3. Presenting Your Results................................................................................................................. 19 Walter F. Smith 4. Uncertainty and Statistics.............................................................................................................. 29 Paul Thorman 5. Scientific Ethics............................................................................................................................... 53 Grace McKenzie-Smith Part II Tools of an Experimentalist 6. Analog Electronics.......................................................................................................................... 73 Walter F. Smith 7. Fundamentals of Interfacing Experiments with Computers.................................................... 133 Walter F. Smith 8. Digital Electronics......................................................................................................................... 143 Brian Collett 9. Data Acquisition and Experiment Control with Python........................................................... 195 Paul Freeman and Jami Shepherd 10. Basic Optics Techniques and Hardware..................................................................................... 227 Walter F. Smith 11. Laser Beams, Polarization, and Interference............................................................................. 247 Justin Peatross and Michael Ware 12. Vacuum........................................................................................................................................... 263 Walter F. Smith 13. Particle Detection.......................................................................................................................... 267 Joseph Kozminski Part III Fields of Physics 14. Development and Supervision of Independent Projects............................................................ 289 Melissa Eblen-Zayas 15. Condensed Matter Physics........................................................................................................... 299 Walter F. Smith 16. Biophysics....................................................................................................................................... 307 Mason Klein 17. Non-Linear, Granular, and Fluid Physics................................................................................... 327 Nathan C. Keim 18. Atomic and Molecular Physics..................................................................................................... 341 Robbie Berg and Glenn Stark 19. Photonics and Fiber Optics.......................................................................................................... 371 Jay Sharping and Walter F. Smith 20. Experiments with Entangled Photons......................................................................................... 377 Enrique J. Galvez 21. Nuclear and Particle Physics........................................................................................................ 403 Brett Fadem Index........................................................................................................................................................431ReviewsSmith (Haverford College) has edited a well-designed and beautifully crafted book for use in the advanced lab-a typical upper-level course taken by the physics major-that is refreshingly based on contemporary laboratory pedagogy. Smith has independently authored 8 of the 21 chapters and coauthored another. The authors of remaining chapters are mostly experienced laboratory faculty. The writing is generally fluid, balancing a friendly informality with precise instruction. The text begins with 5 foundational chapters addressing laboratory philosophy, communicating results, the ethics of research, uncertainty, and statistical analysis. The next 7 chapters focus on electronic technologies, data interfacing, optics, and vacuum technology. The last 8 chapters address more specific subject-matter topics (e.g., Biophysics, Condensed Matter Physics ) but also include one on developing independent undergraduate projects. . . . this book is a substantial contribution suitable for adoption in programs that support an undergraduate upper-level physics curriculum. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty. - J. R. Burciaga, Colorado College, USA, in CHOICE April 2021 Vol. 58 No. 8 """Smith (Haverford College) has edited a well-designed and beautifully crafted book for use in the advanced lab—a typical upper-level course taken by the physics major—that is refreshingly based on contemporary laboratory pedagogy. Smith has independently authored 8 of the 21 chapters and coauthored another. The authors of remaining chapters are mostly experienced laboratory faculty. The writing is generally fluid, balancing a friendly informality with precise instruction. The text begins with 5 foundational chapters addressing laboratory philosophy, communicating results, the ethics of research, uncertainty, and statistical analysis. The next 7 chapters focus on electronic technologies, data interfacing, optics, and vacuum technology. The last 8 chapters address more specific subject-matter topics (e.g., ""Biophysics,"" ""Condensed Matter Physics"") but also include one on developing independent undergraduate projects. . . . this book is a substantial contribution suitable for adoption in programs that support an undergraduate upper-level physics curriculum. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students and faculty."" – J. R. Burciaga, Colorado College, USA, in CHOICE April 2021 Vol. 58 No. 8" Author InformationWalter F. Smith is the Paul and Sally Bolgiano Professor of Physics at Haverford College, where he has taught the advanced lab course more than twenty times. He earned his PhD from Harvard University. He is co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles, six of which specifically focus on new experimental apparati or techniques, and maintains an active research group centered on the photoelectronic properties of organic nanowires. He is author of the textbook ""Waves and Oscillations: A Prelude to Quantum Mechanics"". Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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