UCT Physics PHY321F
Laboratory

PHY321F laboratory classes are held in PHYLAB3 on Mondays 14.00 - 17.30 (with demonstrators) and usually most afternoons 14.00 - 17.00 (by arrangement). Equipment may be used, subject to availability and safety constraints, at other times, by arrangement with the laboratory co-ordinator. The computers in the lab may be accessed at any time in working hours.

Introduction to PHY321F Laboratory describes the laboratory course.

Guide for PHY321F Laboratory Notebook and Reports describes the laboratory course.

SCHEDULE OF EXPERIMENTS and MARKS shows who does what and when, hand-in dates and marks

• F Fitting Gaussian peaks to data instructions (.dvi) or (.ps )
• Data sets for [F Fitting Gaussian peaks]: [gauss001.dat]; [gauss002.dat]; [gauss003.dat]; [gauss004.dat]; [gauss005.dat]; [gauss006.dat]; [gauss007.dat]; [gauss008.dat]; [gauss009.dat]; [gauss010.dat]
• gaussf02.trc or gaussf02.exe A brute force iterated looping program for fitting a gaussian (compiled Trubasic or executable)
• G Gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment instructions part 1 (.dvi) or (.ps )
• G Gamma-ray spectroscopy experiment instructions part 2 (.dvi) or (.ps )
• G Gamma-ray spectroscopy comments on reports
• E Exponential lifetime Al-28 experiment instructions (.dvi) or (.ps )
• E Exponential lifetime Al-28 questions to be answered before the experiment (.dvi) or (.ps )
• E Exponential lifetime Al-28 comments on reports
• S Schrodinger equation numerical solution instructions (.dvi) or (.ps )
• S Schrodinger equation numerical solution comments on reports
• D Deuteron binding energy experiment instructions (.dvi) or (.ps )
• D Deuteron binding energy comments on reports
• M Millikan oil-drop experiment instructions (.html)

To see a demonstration of non-linear least squares fit running, look at fitdemo.tru (Trubasic source) or fitdemo.trc (Trubasic compiled) or fitdemo.exe (executable)

• You can email the lab coordinator, Prof Steve Driver
• You can email the lab demonstrator, Dr David Britton

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