PHGN-315 Fall-2016

Revision as of 17:55, 30 September 2016

Course Information

Instructors: Félix Therrien ‎[felix.therrien@gmail.com]‎ ;Bradon Skogen [bskogen@mymail.mines.edu] ‎‎; Jacob Neumann ‎[jneumann@mymail.mines.edu]‎‎‎‎ and Frank Kowalski MH 438, phone (303) 273-3845, e-mail: fkowalsk@mines.edu Office hours Tuesday: 1-3 and Thursday 9-12.

Course Material

Lecture-Homework Links

Extinction Data

Modelling in Engineering and Science

Value proposition

How we think

Syllabus

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Syllabus

Texts

Experimental physics text

How to Lie with Statistics

Feynman video: QED:The strange theory of light and matter

Optics text by Fowles

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Lectures

Lecture 1

Lecture 1

1 Mar: HW3 clarifications: More clarifications:

Problems 3-7 are all for the same experimental situation.

For problem 3c, assume the beam is in the lowest order, 11 mode. Keep in mind, that in contrast to the example I worked in class, the core of the waveguide is glass (you can use fused silica), so you need to modify the dispersion expression to include the dispersion of that material.

Lab Presentations

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Sec. A student groups Sec. B student groups Sec. A Lab Presentation Schedule Sec. B Lab Presentation Schedule Sec. Lab Presentation Instructions and Evaluation Form

Lab handouts

RLC lab

Feynman lecture on damped oscillations

RLC circuits

e/m lab

e/m measurement overview

Thermionic emission for e/m

e/m appartus manual

Spectroscopy lab

Spectroscopy appartus manual

Detector characterization lab

A simple model of how this detector works is that of a diode. That is, a harmonic electric field incident on the wires, connected to the diode, gets rectified. The voltage across these wires then looks like a sequence of half waves at the microwave frequency. The voltmeter across these wires can't respond at this frequency so it measures an average of this rectified waveform, which is a dc voltage.

polarization overview (study the first figure and the animations)

understand Malus's Law and understand the animation of circular polarization

Quantum interpretation of polarization

More on polarization

first point contact diode link

second point contact diode link

another point contact diode link

most detailed description of the diode

Cart speed lab (right click and choose "save link as" to download this Mathematica slide show)

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Doppler shift slide show

Meeting schedule for returned lab reports

Supplementary Information

Critical Thinking Link 1

Critical Thinking Link 2 (In this article, think of yourself as the one "writing a lab report," which is to be critically analyzed, rather than as a reader of some document)

Measuring Intellectual Development

Grading Rubric for Model and Procedure sections

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Rubric for grading laboratory reports Rubric for grading model and procedure sections