Physics 120B, Advanced Physics Lab: Modern and Solid State Physics

Fall 2019

General class information

Syllabus

Lab schedule

Required textbook:

        An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements

        John R. Taylor

        2nd edition, 1997, University Science Books

        (Buy a paperback copy! It should be available at the SJSU bookstore)

Lab manuals:

• Noise Fundamentals

  • Characterization Of Semiconductors: Hall effect, Four-point-probe resistivity

• Lock-In Amplifier

• Magnetic Torque Experiment

  • Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) 

• Franck-Hertz Experiment, Wikipedia, Hyperphysics

  • • Read this article for the Franck-Hertz experiment:

    • New features of the Franck-Hertz experiment

• Nuclear radiation

Sample lab reports:

• Lab report in Jupiter Notebook

• Lab report in Mathematica Notebook

• Lab report templates

• Lab grading rubric

Jupyter Notebook:

• Jupyter (SciPy) installation

• Jupyter polished notebooks

• IPython: A System for Interactive Scientific Computing

• Data tables & images in Jupyter Notebook

• Project Jupyter

• Ipython Documentation

• IPython Notebook Shortcuts

• Interactive Notebooks: Sharing The Code

• Outputting Beautiful Jupyter Notebooks

• BibTex References in Jupyter

  • Python tutorials: Python Scientific lecture notes, An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python, Interactive Notebooks

• Citing IPython

Mathematica Notebook:

• Mathematica installation (for SJSU students only)

Python examples:

• Linear fit template

• Nonlinear fit template

• Plot RT data, Thermistor RT data

• Error bars

• Curve fit

• Least squares fit

• Spline

• Data table

Literature about experiments:

• Gustav Hertz Nobel Lecture, James Franck Nobel Lecture

• Magnetic moment of the electron, P. Kusch Nobel Lecture

• NIST ‘Noise Thermometry’ Yields Accurate New Measurements of Boltzmann Constant

• Redefining the Kelvin

• A Boltzmann constant determination based on Johnson noise thermometry

• Generalized Kirchhoff-Law-Johnson-Noise (KLJN) secure key exchange system using arbitrary resistors

• Semiconductors

• About Lock-In Amplifiers

• What is a Lock-in Amplifier?

• Specifying Lock-in Amplifiers

• Work done on charged particles in magnetic fields

• Questions And Answers in MRI

• Pauli & Bohr

• An EPR Experiment for the Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory

• Electron Spin Resonance of Radiation Produced Free Radicals

• EPR at Work

• MRI: Basic Physics & a Brief History

Other useful material:

• Verdet constants

• Instrument user manuals: 

  • GWInstek SFG-1013 DDS function generator

  • GWInstek GDS-1052U digital oscilloscope

  • Rigol DS 1102E digital oscilloscope

  • HP/Agilent/Keysight 34401A multimeter

  • HP 54603B analog oscilloscope

    • HP E3611A power supply

    • Keysight 3630A power supply

  • BK Precision 2120B analog oscilloscope