Objective
Our general physics laboratory courses have been designed to inculcate a hands-on approach towards experimental physics. Primary objectives of the Laboratory course are:
- to train to handle instruments
- to teach some basic experimental techniques
- to verify some fundamental laws of physics and to measure different physical quantities
- to perform some historically important experiments in the development of physics
- to design experiments and to learn to extract meaningful physics principles from the experimental observation
List of Experiments
- Millikan’s oil drop experiment: Measurement of charge of electron
- Measurement of charge to mass ratio (e/m) of electron
- Debye-Scherrer diffraction: Study of diffraction of electrons in a ploycrystalline lattice
- Franck and Hertz experiment with Hg and Ne
- Measurement of velocity of light
- Accoustic Doppler effect: Measurement of Doppler shift of frequency and velocity of sound
- Verification of Coulomb’s Law (by method of image charge): Measurement of permittivity of air
- Photoelectric effect: Measurement of Planck’s constant
- Microwave diffraction
- Study of Zeeman effect
- Study of Faraday effect
- Michelson’s interferometer
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer
- Measurement of Stefan’s constant
- Photovoltaics
- B-H loop tracer
- Measurement of magnetic susceptibility by Guoy’s Method
- Temperature dependence of Hall effect in semi-conductors
- Temperature dependence of Hall effect in metals
- Temperature dependence of electrical resistivity in metals
- Magnetoresistance in metals and semi-conductors
- Study of polarization of light
- Electron spin resonence