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Experimental Physics Xathlon
Advanced Laboratory Physics
01 Mechanics and Nonlinear Dynamics
Air tracks and carts
Ballistic pendulum
Bimetallic strips
Cannons and launchers
Chaos in a magnetically forced dipole
Chaotic pendulum
Complex rolling objects
Compound pendula
Coupled oscillators and pendula
Deformation of loaded beams and plates
Driven mass on spring
Driven mass on spring
Extended list of questions
Feedback Control of a Pendulum
Forced Duffing oscillator
Forced oscillators and resonance
Foucault pendulum
Fracture and fatigue
Free fall
Harmonic oscillator
Mechanical properties of materials
Optical stress analysis
Parametrically forced pendulum
Precision pendulum design and clocks
Projectile motion
Rockets
Self-Sustained Oscillation
Simple pendulum
Stability and buckling of structures
Structural statics
Waves in long springs and oscillator chains
02 Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism - Overview
Impedance Spectroscopy
Materials Characterization with a Network Analyzer
Speed of Light
03 Thermal and Statistical Physics
Brownian motion
Dynamic light scattering
Dynamic light scattering
Gas Liquid Critical Point
Noise
Noise
Stirling Engine
04 Fundamental Quantum Phenomena
Franck Hertz experiment
Photoelectric effect
Single photon interference
Stern Gerlach experiment
05 Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics
Compton scattering
Cosmic rays
Cyclotron
Gamma spectroscopy
06 Atomic and Molecular Physics
Diode Laser Spectroscopy
H2D2 spectra
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Raman spectroscopy
Zeeman effect
07 Optics and Photonics
Diffraction
Interferometry
08 Condensed Matter Physics
Atomic Force Microscopy
Band gap
Carrier densities and Hall effect
Carrier mobility diffusion and lifetime
Collective excitations
Crystal growth
Crystal structure - X-ray and neutron diffraction
Energy bands, density of states, and Fermi surface
Ferroelectrics and electrets
Ferromagnets and magnetic phase transitions
Graphene
Hall effect
High Tc superconductors
Josephson junctions and SQUIDs
Luminescence
Magnetic properties
Metal semiconductor junctions
Photoconductivity
Piezoelectric and pyroelectric behavior
Quantized conductance
Resistivity measurements
Scanned probe microscopy
Semiconductor pn junctions
Shubnikov de Haas effect
Specific heat
Thermoelectric behavior
09 Fluid Mechanics
Aerofoils, sails, and lift
Bernoulli effect
Cavitation and sonoluminescence
Drag and Air Resistance
Drops and Bubbles
Flow visualization
Fluid mechanics
Hydrostatics and buoyancy
Liquid films, soap films, and soap bubbles
Microfluidics
Pipe flow
Schlieren methods, shadowgraphy, and holographic interferometry
Solitons
Stokes Law
Surface tension
Surface Waves
Taylor Couette experiment
Thermal Convection
Turbulence
Turbulence
Viscosity Measurement
Vortices, vortexes, and vortex flows
10 Acoustics and Ultrasonics
11 Plasma Physics
Langmuir probe
Additional references
Pachen's Law for electric discharge in a gas
12 Astronomy Astrophysics Cosmology and Gravitation
Gravity wave detection
Inverse r2 law and gravitational constant
13 Biophysics and Medical Physics
14 Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
15 Polymer and Soft Matter Physics
16 Mesoscopic Physics and Nanoscience
17 Complex Systems and Networks
18 Physics and Information
19 Geophysics Atmospheric Physics and Ocean Physics
20 Environmental Physics
21 Physics in Archeology and Anthropology
22 Sociophysics and Econophysics
23 Art and Physics
24 Physics Education Research
Communicating Physics
Data Analysis and Uncertainty Estimation
Fusion 360 Primer
General Resources for Laboratory Physics
Instrument and equipment guides
Electronic components
Electronic sensors
Electronic test and measurement instruments
General lab ware
Nuclear instrumentation
Optical elements stock
Optical mounts stock
Structural systems stock
Physics Overviews
Safety
Syllabus and Examples
The Twelve Triumphs
X-athlon Idea
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Experimental Physics Xathlon
Gravity wave detection
Resources
ALPhA immersions
Principles of Gravitational-Wave Interferometry
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