Carnegie Mellon University
Modern Physics Laboratory (33.340)
EXPERIMENTS

These are the experiments presently available in the course. The links let you download the lab write-ups for the experiments. Hardcopies are also available in the Lab office, as are some supplements that you may find useful.

EXPERIMENT Handouts	EQUIPMENT	EXPERIMENT Handouts	EQUIPMENT
Chaos		Compton Scattering Data on nuclear energy levels, absorption, moments... (PDF)
Cosmic Ray Muons		Electron Spin Resonance Notes on an E&M waveguide (PDF). Tutorial on running fitter in Mathematica (PDF). Mathematica Notebook.
Light Scattering		Magnetic Susceptibility
Mossbauer Spectroscopy Supplement on Saturation of Absorption Lines (PDF) Notes on the isomer shift (PDF) Data on nuclear energy levels, absorption, moments... (PDF)		Neutron Activation Data on nuclear energy levels, absorption, moments... (PDF)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Supplement on Carr-Purcell & Meiboom-Gill pulse sequences (PDF) Supplement on the FID line shape and field gradients (PDF)		Optical Pumping Supplement on Saturation of Absorption Lines (PDF) Supplement on the FID line shape and field gradients (PDF) Notes on the g-factor for hyperfine splitting (PDF) Article about application to atomic clocks of the Optical Pumping technique (PDF)
Raman Spectroscopy		X-ray Diffraction
The Zeeman Effect		Detecting Evidence for Dark Matter.

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