Intro to Modern Physics: Resources for Physics Instructors
This page is part of the home page for the UT-Austin Intro to Modern Physics course.
We plan to use this space to provide resources for instructors of physics (and
other) labs.
Several of the items below are mostly complete but not yet written up; they are marked
"(not yet)." Please don't hestitate to contact us if you are interested in one of these
topics; we can tell you what we know.
Course Information
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A PC-Based Lock in Analyzer
written in LabView.
An Excel function to do least-squares
fitting for data with uncertainty in one or both variables.
A Poor Man's Cold-Finger Cryostat (not yet).
Redesign of a Modern Physics Course Around a Group Project (not yet).
LabViewControl of a Damped, Driven Pendulum (not yet).
Transition temperature of a High-Tc Superconductor using Lock-in detection.
(not yet).
Physics of Semiconductor Electronics (not yet), including
Hall Effect using Lock-in detection (not yet).
A Homemade Diode (not yet).