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Taylor & Francis Ltd Experimental Physics Principles And Practice For The Laboratory 1St Edition by Walter Fox Smith
The student's companion website and the instructor manual can be accessed here.This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data. Key Features:Efficiently helps students grow into independent experimentalists through a combination of structured yet thought-provoking and challenging exercises, student-designed experiments, and guided but open-ended exploration.Provides solid coverage of fundamental background information, explained clearly for undergraduates, such as ground loops, optical alignment techniques, scientific communication, and data acquisition using LabVIEW, Python, or Arduino.Features carefully designed lab experiences to teach fundamentals, including analog electronics and low noise measurements, digital electronics, microcontrollers, FPGAs, computer interfacing, optics, vacuum techniques, and particle detection methods.Offers a broad range of advanced experiments for each major area of physics, from condensed matter to particle physics. Also provides clear guidance for student development of projects not included here.Provides a detailed Instructor's Manual for every lab, so that the instructor can confidently teach labs outside their own research area. The manual can be accessed here. Table of contents :-ContentsPreface...................................................................................................................................................... viiAcknowledgments...................................................................................................................................... xiPart I Fundamentals1. Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 3Walter Fox Smith2. Planning and Carrying Out Experiments...................................................................................... 7Walter F. Smith3. Presenting Your Results................................................................................................................. 19Walter F. Smith4. Uncertainty and Statistics.............................................................................................................. 29Paul Thorman5. Scientific Ethics............................................................................................................................... 53Grace McKenzie-SmithPart II Tools of an Experimentalist6. Analog Electronics.......................................................................................................................... 73Walter F. Smith7. Fundamentals of Interfacing Experiments with Computers.................................................... 133Walter F. Smith8. Digital Electronics......................................................................................................................... 143Brian Collett9. Data Acquisition and Experiment Control with Python........................................................... 195Paul Freeman and Jami Shepherd10. Basic Optics Techniques and Hardware..................................................................................... 227Walter F. Smith11. Laser Beams, Polarization, and Interference............................................................................. 247Justin Peatross and Michael Ware12. Vacuum........................................................................................................................................... 263Walter F. Smith13. Particle Detection.......................................................................................................................... 267Joseph KozminskiPart III Fields of Physics14. Development and Supervision of Independent Projects............................................................ 289Melissa Eblen-Zayas15. Condensed Matter Physics........................................................................................................... 299Walter F. Smith16. Biophysics....................................................................................................................................... 307Mason Klein17. Non-Linear, Granular, and Fluid Physics................................................................................... 327Nathan C. Keim18. Atomic and Molecular Physics..................................................................................................... 341Robbie Berg and Glenn Stark19. Photonics and Fiber Optics.......................................................................................................... 371Jay Sharping and Walter F. Smith20. Experiments with Entangled Photons......................................................................................... 377Enrique J. Galvez21. Nuclear and Particle Physics........................................................................................................ 403Brett FademIndex........................................................................................................................................................431