Upgrade and Modernization of the Introductory Modern Physics Laboratory

物理（13）该项目正在为第二年的现代物理学入门课程对实验室进行升级和现代化。有几个动机。首先，最近的一个外部部门审查委员会在其建议中特别提到了这个实验室。第二，对附近11所大学进行了一系列系统的访问，以了解哪些做法最有效，发现了许多需要适应和实施的新想法。第三，一个新的教师与专业知识，在电光提供了手段，使这个实验室，早在物理专业，一个令人兴奋的介绍实验，结合当前的研究。最后，新的教学模式表明，这个实验室可以更多的探究和调查。该项目为新实验室配备了光学台、光学支架和组件、半导体激光器、1.0米光谱仪和CCD相机。该项目旨在以现有电子和核物理实验室为模型，实现实验室的灵活性和可重构性，以便一旦理解实验，就可以轻松修改以解决新问题。在24个月的赠款期内，实验室的基本实验正在重新设计两次，一次是在学年，一次是在夏季，而且正在设计这些实验，以便容易进行各种变化。我们鼓励学生做出这样的改变，并以网页形式发布他们的调查结果，由教授/裁判/编辑链接到课程主页。预计这个新的实验室将对学生以后的专业课程，特别是大四的独立论文项目产生有益的影响。它还应该激励学生在第一年的课程，考虑在物理专业。

Physics (13) This project is upgrading and modernizing the laboratory for the second year introductory course in modern physics. There are several motivations. First, a recent external Department Review committee singled out this laboratory in its recommendations. Second, a systematic series of visits to see what worked best at eleven nearby colleges revealed many new ideas to adapt and implement. Third, a new faculty member with expertise in electro-optics provides the means to make this laboratory, early in the physics major, an exciting introduction to experimentation, incorporating current research. Finally, new models of pedagogy suggest this laboratory could be more inquiry-based and investigative. The project is equipping the new laboratory with optical tables, optical mounts and components, semiconductor lasers, a 1.0 meter spectrometer, and a CCD camera. The project is aiming at flexibility and reconfigurability of the laboratory, on the model of existing electronics and nuclear physics laboratories, so that experiments, once understood, can be easily modified to address new questions. The basic experiments of the laboratory are being reworked twice within the 24-month period of the grant, once during the school year and once in the summer, and they are being designed so that variations of them are easy to implement. Students are being encouraged to make such variations and publish the results of their investigations in webpage form, linked by the professor/referee/editor to the course homepage. It is expected this new lab to have a beneficial influence on students' later coursework in the major, especially the independent thesis projects of the senior year. It should also motivate students in the first year course to consider a major in physics.