PC251 Modern Physics Laboratory

Lab Information | Lab Resources

Resources

Lab Instructions

• Speed of Light
• Photoelectric Effect
• Electron Diffraction

Laboratory Notebook

• Instructions for keeping a lab notebook
• Excerpt from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Example of a notebook entry

Data Analysis

• Error Analysis for Introductory Physics Labs handout
• Instructions for Linear Fitting using Python
• Scientific Computing Toolbox website

Laboratory Report

• Lab Report Assignment Instructions
• Example Lab Report PDF file
• Example Lab Report ZIP file This ZIP file contains a PDF of the example report, the LaTeX documents used to generate the report, and the Python code used to create the plot in the report.
• Free online introduction to LaTeX
• Overleaf online LaTeX editor