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==Guidelines==
We are likely to run into unforeseen difficulties and conflicting needs of students.  Please be courteous and we'll try to work things out.  In general, sign up below when you know what experiment you want to do.  It probably doesn't make sense to sign up more than one week ahead of time.  Try to work things out with other students face to face during class. 
==Mondays==
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!Lab #
!Tom Mahony
!Ryan Long
!Alex Andrego
!Anastasia Ierides
!Elizabeth Allen
!David Weiss
!David O'Hara
!Xander Booth
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|Lab 0
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
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|Lab 1
|Speed of Light
|Speed of Light
|Planck's Constant
|Planck's Constant
|Balmer Series
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|electron diffraction
|Millikan Oil Drop
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|Lab 2
|Millikan Oil Drop
|Millikan Oil Drop
|Balmer Series
|Balmer Series
|Planck's Constant
|Planck's Constant
|ESR
|speed of light
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|Lab 3
|Planck's Constant
|Planck's Constant
|Speed of Light
|Speed of Light
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|Balmer Series
|Electron Diffraction
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|Lab 4
|Electron Diffraction
|Electron Diffraction
|e/m Ratio
|e/m Ratio
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|planck's constant
|e/m ratio
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|Lab 5
|e/m Ratio
|e/m Ration
|Electron Diffraction
|Electron Diffraction
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|speed of light
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|Lab 6
|Balmer Series
|Balmer Series
|Milikan Oil Drop
|Milikan Oil Drop
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==Wednesdays==
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!Johnny Gonzalez
!Jacob Jaramillo
!John Callow
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|Lab 0
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
|Oscilloscope
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|Lab 1
|electron diffraction
|Speed of Light
|Balmar series
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|Lab 2
|balmer series
|Balmer Series 
|e/m
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|Lab 3
|Oil Drop
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|oil drop
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|Lab 4
|E/M
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|Lab 5
|Planck's Constant
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|Lab 6
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==Lab choices (this list will evolve)==
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Experiment'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Koch notes'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Links'''
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|The oscilloscope
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|e/m Ratio for Electrons (dark)
|Set up for this lab is extensive (3 total power supplies) & there is high risk of damaging apparatus.  Large systematic error and a big part of lab is hypothesizing why the error exists and figuring out how to minimize it.
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|Electron Diffraction (pretty tough to see)
|'''High Voltage -- Discuss safety with Koch!'''
|[http://www.telatomic.com/ttubes6.html TEL Atomic Commercial site]
|--
|Balmer Series (dark)
|This one works very well, and you can get probably the most precise answer out of all the labs, which is very fun.
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|Planck’s Constant (dark)
|Be careful about systematic errors!
|[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-13-14Fall-2004-Spring-2005/Labs/detail/lab2.htm MIT OpenCourseWare Planck's Constant exp.] (An explanation of a different setup though)
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|Excitation Levels of Neon
|Students had a tough time getting this one working -- make sure all connections are good and that you're getting some peaks to avoid spending a bunch of time taking meaningless data.
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|Electron Spin Resonance
|A pretty complicated setup, but a lot of fun. '''These capacitors have a specific polarity!!!'''
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|Poisson Statistics (MCA)
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|[http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~mfuhrer/course/spr02/Hints/AppendixC.htm a site about the MCA software (maybe)]
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|Mass of the Electron (MCA)
|Apparently we cannot do this lab because the instructor (Koch) hasn't had radiation safety training.
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|Speed of Light (MCA)
|'''Be careful w/ the photomultiplier tube...do not expose it to room light when the high voltage is turned on'''
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|Oil drop experiment (charge of electron)
|This one is tricky and taking the data is fatiguing ... but it's a really cool one.
|[ftp://ftp.pasco.com/Support/Documents/English/AP/AP-8210/012-06123d.pdf Manual from Pasco]
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|Other new experiments?
|If you know of one, we may be able to make a purchase or you could take on a project of setting it up<br><br>Also, Koch has ideas for experiments he'd like to get going, so if you're interested in blazing a trail, talk with him!
|[http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-13-14Fall-2004-Spring-2005/Labs/index.htm List of MIT Junior Lab Experiments]
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'''More details of the experiments can be found in the [http://www-hep.phys.unm.edu/%7Egold/phys307L/manual.pdf 2006 lab manual].'''

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