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(3 credits; 6 hours)(Prerequisite: 198-339B; Corequisite: 198-446A. Not open to students with credit in 198-359B except with permission of instructor.) Advanced level experiments in modern physics stressing quantum effects and some properties of condensed matter.

Location

This course is offered in the fall semester. The actually experiments are scattered around the campus: many in Wong 0110 and the rest in various darkened rooms in the basement of Rutherford.

Personel

Professors

• Jean Barrette
• Fritz Buchinger

Teaching Assistant

• Jason Schwartz

Technical

• Saverio Biunno
• Mark Orchard-Webb

Introduction

We will meet for the first time on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 2:00 (in room 0110 M.H. Wong Bldg.) for the selection of partners and the selection of the first experiment. Students are required to work in pairs.

Statement of Requirements

Each pair of students is required to complete three experiments and reports during the term.

• Experiment 1: 8 Sep 2009 to 2 Oct 2009 (7 Lab. afternoons)
• Experiment 2: 5 Oct 2009 to 30 Oct 2009 (7 Lab. afternoons)
• Experiment 3: 2 Nov 2009 to 27 Nov 2009 (8 Lab. afternoons)

The second experiment will be picked on 29 Sept 2009 and the third experiment on 27 October at 4:00 in room 0120.

The reports have to be handed in to M. Orchard-Webb (Room 0110).

• Experiment 1: Report due 6 Oct 2009 2:00 p.m.
• Experiment 2: Report due 3 Nov 2009 2:00 p.m.
• Experiment 3: Report due 3 Dec 2009 5:00 p.m. (last day of lectures)

One report per experiment and group has to be submitted. Instructions on how to prepare a report can be found at: Lab Reports. We will also discuss how to prepare a report with each group individually during the lab. Marks (out of 100) will be assigned to each of the experiments. The final mark will be based on all three experiments (sum of marks for each individual experiment divided by three). We insist that the reports are handed in on time. In the event of late submission of a report, the grade will be reduced as follows:

• Up to 1 week late: initial mark minus 10 points.
• More than one week late: Report not acceptable.

In accord with McGill University's Charter of Students' Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded.

Students in PHYS469 can not repeat experiments they have done in PHYS359

Experiments

Atomic Physics

• Atomic Spectra
• Zeeman

Optics

• Fourier Optics I
• Fourier Optics II
• Fourier Optics III

Nuclear

• Alpha Decay I
• Alpha Decay II
• Alpha Decay III
• Gamma Coincidence
• Compton Scattering
• Mossbauer
• Rutherford Scattering

Solid State

• Hall Effect I
• Hall Effect II
• Hall Effect III

Wave Mechanics

• Vibrating Drum I
• Vibrating Drum II
• Vibrating Drum III

Groups

Group Number	Group Member	Group Member	First Experiment	Second Experiment	Third Experiment
1.	Alexander Gorelick	Oliver Shelbaya	Vibrating Drum I	Hall Effect I	Alpha Decay
2.	Fahd Badran	Brian Lin	Zeeman
3.	Pieter Smith	Stacey Smolash	Atomic Spectra
4.	Deniz Aydin	Shu Xing	Gamma Coincidence
5.	Mathieu Saindon	Bastien St-Louis	Compton Scattering
6.	Haleemur Ali	Yao Guo	Alpha Decay I
7.	Phillip Lagogiannis	Borislav Pavlov	Vibrating Drum II
8.	Soroush Hafezian	Juliano Cottitto	Fourier Optics I
9.	Kirk North	Dan Smilowitz	Rutherford Scattering
10.	Zach Lenane	Eric Whiteway	Alpha Decay II
11.	Emilie Mony	Yuji Kamio	Alpha Decay III
12.	Laurent Petithuguenin	Angela Shershin	Vibrating Drum III
13.	Marshall Peters	Ang Shi Da	Fourier Optics II	Rutherford	X-Ray Diffraction
14.	Simon Declerck	Simon Theberge	Hall Effect I
15.	Davis Allen	Raz Yusoff	Fourier Optics III
16.	Nicholas Lebel-Buchanan	Stuart Locke	N.M.R.

Previous years

• 2008-PHYS-439 Laboratory in Modern Physics
• 2007-PHYS-439 Laboratory in Modern Physics

Log

Tuesday September 1, 2009

• Alpha: 2,3,4,5,6,7
• Atomic Spectra: 3,4
• Coincidence: 4,5
• Compton: 2,3
• Drum: 2,3,4,5,6,7
• Fourier: 2,3,4,5,6,7
• Hall: 3,4,5,6,7,8
• Magnetometer: 2,3
• Mossbauer: 4,5
• Optical pumping 2,3
• Rutherford: 2 (only one manual)
• X-ray: 3,4
• Zeeman: 3,4