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Introductory Labs
These labs consist of a mechanics laboratory with several computerized experiments and an electricity and magnetism laboratory for the second semester of introductory physics. One lab has 12 stations equipped with PCs (replaced every three years) and the other lab has 12 stations with Macs (also replaced every three years).
Electronics Lab
This laboratory has signal generators, power supplies, oscilloscopes (digital and analog), powered proto-boards, digital voltmeters, and small army of active and passive components that are used in our electronics course.
Optics Laboratory
This lab has equipment to make and observe holograms, to determine the velocity of light, and to produce prism and grating spectra.
Computational Lab
This Linux facility is used to introduce numerical computation. Students learn to write programs in C to model physical phenomena such as projectile motion, chaotic behavior, planetary motion, and static electric and magnetic fields.
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The physics advanced lab facility includes a variety of equipment used in the capstone senior lab, including equipment for NMR, gamma ray spectroscopy, superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). Other resources include equipment for low temperature (4K) Mossbauer studies and a sputtering machine. We also have access to the University at Buffalo cyclotron to produce radioactive isotopes.
