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PHY 401 - Great Experiments in Modern Physics I

3 Credits
Offered Fall
Available experiments include: Cavendish experiment for the gravitational constant, Young’s two-slit interference experiment, Fizeau’s rotating mirror experiment for the speed of light, Maxwell’s speed of light via electrical measurements, Thomson’s experiment for the electron charge/mass ratio, Millikan’s experiment for the electron charge, Einstein-Perrin’s for Boltzmann’s constant, Planck’s constant via photoelectric effect, Planck’s constant via hydrogen spectrum, Rutherford’s experiment for nuclear size, Frank-Hertz experiment on inelastic electron-atom collisions.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): PHY 121 - Physics I , PHY 122 - Physics II , and PHY 221 - Physics III   


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