Modern Physics & Solid State Demos

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Waves & Optics	Statistical Physics
Quantum	Solid State

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Waves & Optics

• See Waves and Oscillations Demos
• See Light and Optics Demos
• Pasco Matter Model (3D, 2D or 1D array of ball linked by springs)
• Crystal lattice models
• Crystal unit cell model
• Electron Diffraction apparatus (in intermediate lab)
• Visit to Alex Norquist's lab to see x-ray diffractometer
• Standing Waves in 3D (melting chocolate chips on a plate in the microwave)

Quantum

• Cloud Chamber
• Size of atoms/molecules (infer from spreading of oil drop)
• Vibrating Circular Wire (get from Pasco)
• Franck Hertz Experiment
• Molecular model buildilng for organic chemistry
• Atomic/Molecular Orbital models
• TeachSpin (in intermediate lab)
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (in intermediate lab)
• Electron Diffraction apparatus (in intermediate lab)
• Visit to Alex Norquist's lab to see x-ray diffractometer
• Photoelectric effect (in intermediate lab)
• Open laser working model
• Superconductivity models (levitation, etc.)
• Probabiility materials (dice, coins, cards)
• Radioactive decay (Cs-137 source with Vernier Geiger counters vs. flipping coins or rolling dice)
• Atomic Spectroscopy

Statistical Physics

• Probabiility materials (dice, coins, cards)
• Infrared Ear Thermometer (blackbody radiation)
• Blackbody radiation measurements
• Molecular motion demo
• Osmosis apparatus
• Also see Thermodynamics

Solid State

• Defects in a 2D solid demo
• Crystal lattice models
• Crystal unit cell models
• Molecular model buildilng for organic chemistry
• Atomic/Molecular Orbital models
• Pasco Matter Model (3D, 2D or 1D array of ball linked by springs)
• Visit to Alex Norquist's lab to see x-ray diffractometer
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (in intermediate lab)
• Electron Diffraction apparatus (in intermediate lab)
• Superconductivity models (levitation, etc.)

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