Physics/Geology Instrumentation

Optics

• 0.5m Acton Research Monochromator with photomultiplier tube.
• Stanford Research Systems Lock-in Amplifier
• Fast digital storage oscilloscopes
• Helium Neon lasers
• Diode lasers
• Detectors
• Assorted polarizers, filters, lenses, and mounts.
• Michelson interferometers

Modern Physics

• Frank Hertz apparatus
• TeachSpin magnetic dipole moment apparatus
• e/m experiment
• Nuclear counting detectors and sources

Electronics

• 20 Tektronix TDS 1002 60MHz Digital oscilloscopes
• 20 PB-503 Powered experiment boards
• 20 Fluke 73 Digital Multimeters
• National Instruments Data Acquisition cards on 16 personal computers
• National Instruments LabVIEW software for data-acquisition programming.
• PSpice and MatLab Software
• Introductory Physics lab with Pasco Xplorer GLX interface systems for data-logging and analysis.

Geology

• Portable Cesium Magnetometer
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• Petrographic Microscopes
• phic Information System software for capture, storage, analysis, and display of geographically referenced information