Experimental Physics I & II "Junior Lab"

Experiments

See the Schedule Summaries page for more information about when the experiments are to be completed by the 8.13 and 8.14 students.

8.13 Experimental Physics I (Fall)

Preliminary Experiments (PDF) Photoelectric Effect Poisson Statistics Michelson Interferometer Regular Experiments Compton Scattering The Franck-Hertz Experiment Relativistic Dynamics Pulsed NMR: Spin Echoes The Speed and Mean Life of Cosmic-Ray Muons Rutherford Scattering Optical Emission Spectra of Hydrogenic Atoms X-Ray Physics Johnson Noise and Shot Noise 21-cm Radio Astrophysics Optical Trapping

8.14 Experimental Physics II (Spring)
Regular Experiments Optical Pumping of Rubidium Vapor Pulsed NMR: Spin Echoes Mössbauer Spectroscopy X-Ray Physics Superconductivity 21-cm Radio Astrophysics Doppler-Free Laser Spectroscopy Quantum Information Processing Optical Trapping Raman Spectroscopy

Note: “Athena” is MIT’s academic computing environment. Many of the lab guides provide instructions for on-campus students to carry out some portion of their work on Athena, which is not available to OCW users.