Past Student Projects:

2006   Microscope interferometery by Emily Kosten and Peter Combs
           Laser Microphone by Seth Blumberg, Joel Thompson and David Zaslavsky
           Magnetic Leviation by Lenny Shulgin, Eric Berglund, and Howard Yu

2005   Balancing a pencil on its tip with feedback by Caleb Howe, Greg Haislip and Lear Janiv
           Wire chamber for muon detection by Martin Niederste-Ostholt, Ariel Kleinerman, Jess Riedel and Corey Ritter
            Magnetic properties of superconductors by Shankar Iyer, Giwan Kim, Yijia Eric Lu and Leizhi Sun
            Properties of superfluid helium by Yu Gan, Godfrey Miller and Carl Boettiger

2004    Electromagnetic Railgun by Denis Erkal, Ma'ayan Bresler, Paul Nelson, and Aaron Wertheimer
            Electron Cyclotron by Austin Akey, Josh Brodie, Lucy Jacobson, and Mike White
            Single Bubble Sonoluminescence by Aaron Kleinman, Aly Spencer, Dan Recht, and Nitesh Paryani
            Properties of Plasma Discharge by Richard Aspinall, Ying Gao, Scott Schiffres, and Teddy Wieser

2003     Laser Optical Tweezers by Adam Hopkins,  James McClave, and  Nhan Tran
             Ultrasound Ranging by Steven Andrews and Blake Robinson
             Temperature of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation by Srivas Prasad
             Superconducting Tunneling Junctions by Ursula Pavlish, Josh Burton, and Cullen Blake
 

Lab/Lecture 1: LabView Tutorial
                        Handouts:   Syllabus
                                        LabView Tutorial
                                        LabView Quick Guide
                                        LabView Reference

Lab/Lecture 2: Signal Recovery Techniques
                       Electronic circuits
                     Handouts:Signal Recovery
                                     Electronic Circuits and Feedback

Lab/Lecture 3: Cosmic ray detection
                               High Energy Physics
                       Cosmic microwave background radiation
                                Cosmology
                       Solar cell fabrication
                              Semiconductors
                              Vacuum Technology
                     Semiconductor applets
                              PN Junction
                              Conduction through PN diode
                             Conduction through bipolar transisor
                             Other semiconductor applets

Lab/Lecture 4: Superconductivity
                               Condensed Matter Physics Part I: Superconductivity
                               Condensed Matter Physics Part II: Superconductive Quantum Interference Devices
                        Atomic Spin Magnetometer
                              Atomic Physics

Lab/Lecture 5: Optics and Microscopy
                           Microscopy
 
 

Class handouts:
        LabView Tutorial
        LabView Quick Guide
        LabView Reference
        Signal Recovery
        Electronic Circuits and Feedback
        High Energy Physics
        Cosmology
        Semiconductors
       Vacuum Technology
       Condensed Matter Physics Part I: Superconductivity
       Condensed Matter Physics Part II: Superconductive Quantum Interference Devices
       Optics
 
 

       Additional information on advanced topics:
         Semiconductors and electronic devices links
              Overview of Semiconductors
              p-n junction
              Manufacturing of intergrated circuits
              Steps in manufacturing process
           P-N junction
              Conduction of P-N junction
              More Semiconductor Applets
        Cosmic Microwave background
             Introduction to Cosmic Microwave Background
            Discussion of Cosmic Microwave Background
        High Energy Physics
           Cosmic ray showers
           Professional-strength particle physics review
           LEP Z-decay Java simulator
                Pictures from  high-energy detectors
                 CDF Detector (Fermilab),
                 D0 event, top quark (Fermilab),
                 L3 event, Higgs candidate (CERN),
                 STAR event (BNL),
                 Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Detector

Useful links
            Free Evaluation copy of LabView (Need to register with National Instruments)

        Literature Search Databases
           Web of Science
           INSPEC

           Superconductivity Links
             A Guide to Superconductivity,
             Superconductuvity Cocepts,
             SQUIDs: A popular account,
             SQUIDs: A technical Report
             High Temperature Superconductors

         Other Topics
             Laser operation

        Major high-energy physics laboratories
             FermiLab, near Chicago, home to the highest energy proton-anti-proton collider.
             SLAC, near San Francisco, the largest linear electron accelerator and B meson factory for testing CP violation.
             BNL, Long Island, home to Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, colliding gold nuclei
             CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, home to the largest e⁺-e^- circular collider and future Large Hadron Collider.
             KEK, Japan, home to a B-meson factory for study of CP violation.

        Other Links
              American Physical Society
              Society of Physics Students