Facilities for Physics Students
In
addition to the collaborations we have with large research institutions around
the country, in our own department students have access to the following
research infrastructure:
- State-of-the-art
computer interfacing equipment and software (LabVIEW)
- Electrical
equipment including digital oscilloscopes (both physical boxes and computer
interfaces), digital multimeters, function generators (including programmable
ones), and power supplies
- An 8-node parallel
computing cluster, each having a quad-core Intel chip
- An 8-Watt
solid-state green laser (like the laser light show ones)
- A 12 femtosecond
Titanium Sapphire oscillator
- A Magneto Optical
Kerr Effect apparatus for measuring magnetic effects in thin films
- A “neutron
howitzer” radioactive source we can use to expose materials like aluminum to
high fluxes of neutrons
- A Mathematica site
license
- All the materials
necessary for a Piper Physics Patrol show at a local elementary, middle, or
high school