Acquisition of X-ray Powder Diffraction Facilities and Upgrading of the Undergraduate X-Ray Scattering Laboratory.

在这个项目下，一个胡贝尔粉末测角仪和反管附件， 理学D/max IIIVB X射线发生器，带垂直测角仪底座 将被购买。 该仪器将服务于广泛的目的， 教授地质、物理和化学本科生， 光子计数与信号处理基础， 从仪器到计算机，以及X射线晶体学技术。 是 我们认为地质学、物理学和 一般来说，化学教学存在不足， 仪器接口、计算机模拟和结构 保持战略定力 实验的所有这些方面对于 本科地质学家、物理学家和化学家的教育， 他们可以攻读研究生课程或获得有意义的工作。 的 要求的设备将用于矿物学、岩石学、土壤学， 冰川地质，环境地质，物理化学，化学 仪器实验室和选定的独立研究， 地质学、物理学和化学的高级论文研究项目。

Under this project, a Huber powder goniostat and countertube attachment, and a Rigaku D/max IIIVB X-ray generator with vertical goniometer mount will be purchased. This instrumentation will serve the broad purpose of teaching geology, physics, and chemistry undergraduate students the fundamentals of photon counting and signal processing, interfacing of instruments to computers, and X-ray crystallographic techniques. It is our perception that undergraduate programs in geology, physics, and chemistry in general suffer from inadequacy in the teaching of instrument interfacing, computer simulation, and structure determination. All of these aspects of experimentation are important to the education of undergraduate geologists, physicists, and chemists so they can pursue graduate studies or obtain meaningful employment. The requested equipment will be used in mineralogy, petrology, soils, glacial geology, environmental geology, physical chemistry, chemical instrumentation laboratories and in selected independent studies and senior thesis research projects in geology, physics, and chemistry.