Improvements of Physics Laboratories at Berea College

9452609 Lahamer Berea学院将为物理学生提供现代化的仪器物理实验室。实验室工作将与两门两学期的课程相协调，涵盖力学、电与磁、波与光学以及现代物理学等主题。该项目的重点是现代化和增加现代物理学的新实验，包括核光谱学和安装基于计算机的数据采集系统，用于测量，控制和分析物理系统，并与正在调查的现象直接接口。这些系统将允许在高达60 kHz的采样频率下进行电压测量、间隔计时以及曲线拟合和绘图。所要求的设备将大大提高以下基本目标：培养对科学方法的欣赏，演示基本物理原理，教授测量实践和理论，并为学生提供使用实验室仪器的机会。我们实现这些目标将有额外的好处，介绍给学生目前的材料分析分析技术，计算机数据采集和分析。

9452609 Lahamer Berea College will modernize an instrument-based physics laboratory for physics students. The laboratory work will be coordinated with two two-semester courses covering topics in mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves and optics, and modern physics. Emphasis of this project is on modernizing and adding new experiments in modern physics including nuclear spectroscopy and installing computer-based data acquisition systems for measurement, control, and analysis of physical systems with direct interfaces to the phenomena under investigation. These systems will allow voltage measurements at up to 60 kHz sampling frequency, interval timing, and curve fitting and graphing. The requested equipment will greatly enhance the basic goals of developing an appreciation of the scientific method, demonstrating basic physical principles, teaching the practice and theory of measurement and providing the opportunity for students to use laboratory instruments. Our implementation of these goals will have the additional benefit of introducing the students to current analytical techniques for materials analysis, and to computer data acquisition and analysis.