PHY 455/555: Advanced Optics Lab

Spring 10: Course Information:

• Syllabus
• General Information
• Physics Tutoring Help schedule

Current Assignments:

• Quiz #6
• Quiz #5

Currently Best Class Presentations:

• Lab #1: The Prism Spectrometer: Dispersion Curve of Glass (by David Galey and Lindsay Stanceu)
• Lab #2: Gaussian Wave Optics (by Amanda Beach, Anzi Zhao, Vidhi Patel)
• Lab #5: Michelson Interferometer: Thickness of Thin Film (by Krista Freeman, Max Orseno, Achille Nicoletti)
• Lab #6: Fabry-Perot Interferometer: Anomalous Zeeman Splitting of the Sodium #P States (by David Galey, Lindsay Stanceu, Prasenjit Bose)
• Open Lab Experiment:

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Course Links:

· Nobel Prize in Physics (2009): Announcement

· Nobel Prize in Physics (2009): Details

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· Advanced Undergraduate Labs, Georgia Tech

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• Special relativity simulator WARP
• Walter Fendt's Java Applets on Modern Physics:
• Single Slit
• Double Slit
• Time Dilation
• Photoelectric Effect
• Bohr Model
• Decay Series
• Exponential Decay
• Physlets from Davidson College
• Special Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Modern Physics Applets
• Optics
• Wave Optics
• Optical Bench (University of Calgary Physlets)
• Boston University Physlets (Semester 1)
• Boston University Physlets (Semester 2)
• Falstad Applets

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Check out the activities of the Society of Physics Students (SPS)

Upcoming Event!

• SPS Seminar Schedule
• The Cleveland Stater article about SPS
• Physics Colloquium Schedule
• Appeal to Joint SPS from SPS officers

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Other Useful Links

· Physics Home

· Honors Home

· Flying Circus of Physics Page

· CSU Home

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Written by: Kiril A Streletzky
Maintained by: k.streletzky@csuohio.edu