Experiments in Lab-I

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Experimental Physics Lab-I (PHY-100)--Fall 2016

Instructors: Dr. Muhammad Sabieh Anwar Office hours: Monday to Thursday, (01:00 pm to 5:00 pm) Dr. Muhammad Faryad Office hours: Monday to Thursday, (01:00 pm to 5:00 pm) Azeem Iqbal Office hours: Monday to Friday, (09:00 am to 5:00 pm) Mehran Rasheed Office hours: Monday to Friday, (09:00 am to 5:00 pm)

Pre-lab lectures
Overview of the Laboratory
- Presentation
- Video

Measurements & Uncertainty
- Presentation
- Lecture Video (Part 1)
- Lecture Video (Part 2)
- Lecture Video (Part 3)
- Lecture Video (Part 4)

Presenting Scientific Data Graphically and Curve Fitting
- Presentation
- Lecture Video (Part 1)
- Lecture Video (Part 2)
- Lecture Video (Part 3)

Preparatory Documents
- Uncertainty & Measurements in experimental physics MUST READ!

- Introduction to Data Processing in MATLAB

- How to Write the Laboratory Notebook by H.M. Kanare. Students are required to read Chapters 5 and 6.

Schedule
- L1 Monday
- L3 Tuesday
- L2 Thursday

Timings
(Monday) 10:00am to 2:50pm
(Tuesday) 12:00pm to 4:50pm
(Thursday) 12:00pm - 4:50pm

Reading Material
- Lab Safety

- Expository session on uncertainty (Document)
- Lecture Video

- Further reading on Uncertainties

Sample Problems on Uncertainty with Solutions

Miscellaneous
MATLAB M-file for xyerrorbar

Marking Sheet

Formula sheet for uncertainties

Experiment	Last Updated
Harmonic Motion is Observed through Webcam (1.1)	6 January, 2016
Dynamics, Moment of Inertia, Torque and Rotational Friction (1.2)	21 August, 2015
Moment of inertia of a tennis ball (1.2 A)	10 November, 2015
Craters in sand (1.2 B)	12 September, 2014
Heat Transfer and Newton’s Law of Cooling (1.3)	17 January, 2015
Magnetic Phase Transitions of a Ferromagnetic Alloy (1.4)	31 October, 2013
Optical Activity of the Chiral Solutions (1.5))	16 November, 2011
Data Acquisition and Filter Design (1.6)	1 October, 2008
Data Analysis with capacitor (1.6A)	17 September, 2015
Latent Heat of Vaporization of Liquid Nitrogen (1.7)	4 November, 2015
Electromagnetic Induction and Working of Read-Write Operations in Magnetic Media (1.8)	31 August, 2015
Vibrations on a String and Resonance (1.9)	5 March, 2015
Natural Radioactivity and Statistics (1.10)	3 November, 2015
Measurement of Planck's constant using a light bulb (1.11)	5 January, 2016
Observing Hall Effect Semiconductors (1.12)	21 September, 2015
Electron energy loss investigated through the Nobel prize winning Franck-Hertz experiment (1.13)	15 May, 2015
Verification of de Broglie's hypothesis by electron diffraction from graphite (1.14)	29 September, 2015
Imaging electron trajectories: e/m measurement with a magic eye and ImageJ (1.15)	28 October, 2015
Energy conservation in two dimensions (1.16)	5 May, 2014
Thermodynamics of the Heat Engine (1.17)	10 May, 2011

Task	Last Updated
Moment of inertia of a table tennis ball (1.2 B)	7 December, 2015
Reproducing measurements of a time period with different instruments (1.2 C)	7 December, 2015
Modeling the response of a thermistor (1.3 A) - Stein-Hart data	7 December, 2015
Finding a resistance in series with a capacitor (1.6 B) - Labview code	10 December, 2015
Using phase relationships to find an unknown capacitance in an RC circuit (1.6 C) - Labview code	12 January, 2016
Using a force sensor to measure vaporization of liquid nitrogen (1.7 A)	7 December, 2015
Finding the earth's magnetic field by twisting magnets (1.8A)	9 December, 2015
Measuring the speed of sound using time of flight method (1.9A) - MATLAB code - Sample results	4 January, 2016
Radioactivity: Effect of Absorbers (1.10A) - Sample results	8 December, 2015