PHYS 4796 Experimental Physics (Spring 2025)

Instructor Jim Napolitano

Quick Links

• Canvas page
• Course syllabus
• Recommended lab notebook

Lab Reports

• LaTeX: Overleaf and other distributions
• Report template and the LaTeX source code for it

References and Textbooks

• AJP Resource Letter
• Introduction to Error Analysis, Third Edition
• Experiments in Modern Physics

Group Experiments

• The simple pendulum (Experiment #1)
• Voltage dividers and passive filters (Experiment #2

Team Experiments

• Radioactivity (New experiment)
• Muon Decay: Writeup and Student Report
• Optical Pumping: Writeup and Student Report
• Interferometry: Writeup and Student Report
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Writeup and Student Report
• Single Photon Interference: Writeup and Student Report