Carnegie Mellon University
Modern Physics Laboratory (33.340)
Spring 2008
Following in the footsteps of...


Instructors


Instructors
Office Hours
Prof. Steve Garoff
Tues.-Thurs. in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Prof. Reinhard Schumacher
Tues.-Thurs. in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Mr. Kevin Bandura
Tues.-Thurs. in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Office
Phone
Wean Hall 6313
268-6877
Wean Hall 8406
268-5177
Wean Hall 8422
268-2983
E-mail
sg2e@andrew.cmu.edu
schumacher@cmu.edu
kbandura@andrew.cmu.edu




Undergraduate Assistants

Ms. Noel Berman
Mr. Dan Carmody
Ms. Anja Weyant

Meeting Rooms & Times

All: Tuesday Recitation 8:30 am, Doherty Hall A200
Section A: Tuesday, Thursday 9:30am-12:20pm,
Doherty Hall MA325, "Sutton Lab"
Section B: Tuesday, Thursday 1:30pm- 4:20pm,
Doherty Hall MA325, "Sutton Lab"


Course Information

Physics 33.340 (10 units) is a required course for physics majors. It is usually taken in the junior year, but may be postponed to the senior year.


Syllabus

The syllabus for this course, including grading standard, lab summaries...

Experiments

All of the informational and instructional write-ups are available as hardcopies in the Modern Physics Lab office. Almost all of the material can be downloaded from here.

MPL Supported Software

There are a few Excel templates and macros which many students have found useful. A few experiments have specialized software. These files can be downloaded here.

Assignments, Checklists, etc.

Go here to download checklists for completing experiments and other organizational documents.

Miscellaneous

Typos in the Melissinos textbook (Both Editions).
An attempt at some Relativity and Quantum Physics Humor.

Additional Resources

A Web course on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Nuclear Data: gamma energies, half-lives, etc, search engine
Visualizing the vibrations of carbon tetrachloride and the Raman Spectrum
Structure of sodium nitroprusside, used in the Mossbauer experiment
TIME Magazine: Person of the Century
AIP Center for History of Physics
Hot Physics News
The Fundamental Physical Constants (from NIST)
How Stuff Works
BACKLIGHT -- Relativity visualized (great images & animations!)
How the Sun Shines -- Energy in stars & solar neutrinos)
Physics puzzles & brain teasers
A cute exam story

Some of these links were provided by former students - if you find other interesting and relevant links I'll be glad to include those as well.


Images at the top of the page: Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Max Planck, Rudolf Mossbauer, Erwin Schrodinger, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alfred Kastler, Venkata Raman, Pieter Zeeman, Arthur Holly Compton, Albert Michelson, Kamerlingh Onnes, Ernest O. Lawrence, Viktor Hess, William Bragg, Edward Purcell, Wilhelm Roentgen, Enrico Fermi, Liese Meitner, Hans Geiger, Clifford Shull, Edward Lorenz, Henri Becquerel, Carl Anderson, Max von Laue


Physics Department Homepage.


Last updated on 5/09/08 by schumacher@cmu.edu.