Carnegie Mellon University
Modern Physics Laboratory (33.340)
Spring 2013

Following in the footsteps of...


Instructors


Instructors
Office Hours
Prof. Steve Garoff
Tues.-Thurs. in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Prof. Reinhard Schumacher
Tuesday-Thursday in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Mr. Ying Zhang
Tues.-Thurs. in MPL, 9:30am-4:20pm
Office
Phone
Wean Hall 6313
268-6877
Wean Hall 8406
268-5177
Wean Hall 7421
268-2770
E-mail
sg2e@andrew.cmu.edu
schumacher@cmu.edu
yingz1@andrew.cmu.edu




Undergraduate Assistants

William Balunas, Christopher Baldwin, Nicholas Eminizer, Jason Rocks

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, Lectures, etc.

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

Miscellaneous

Typos in the Melissinos textbook (Both Editions).
Typos in the Bevington and Robinson textbook.
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
Nuclear Data: a different search engine
Visualizing the vibrations of carbon tetrachloride and the Raman Spectrum
Structure of sodium nitroprusside, used in the Mossbauer experiment
The Fundamental Physical Constants (from NIST)
Physical Review Online (PROLA) -- The interface for a century of physics papers
Preposterous Univserse -- A deep physics/metaphysics blog
AIP Center for History of Physics
Hot Physics News
SR visualization -- Relativity visualized (great images & animations!)
How the Sun Shines -- Energy in stars & solar neutrinos
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.


Physics Department Homepage.


Last updated on 1/14/13 by schumacher@cmu.edu.