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Optics  LAB

The optics lab material are provided below and will be updated weekly (usually by Monday morning). 

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LAB EXPERIMENTS

Lab #1 - Inverse Square Law of Optics
Lab #2 - Dispersion in the Prism Spectrometer
Lab #3 - Laser Diffraction with a Ruler
Lab #4 - Single Slit Diffraction
Lab #5 - Polarization of Light
Lab #6 -The Michelson Interferometer
Lab #7 - Reflection of Polarized of Light (Fresnel Relations)
 
APPENDICES

A.    Lab Supplies and Grading Procedure
B.    Keeping a Lab Notebook
C.    Basic EXCEL Tutorial
D.    Adjustment of the Spectometer
E.    The Vernier Scale
F.    Pasco Photometer













Last modified: December 2, 2003.
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