Saturday, November 10, 2012

Lab 13 Materials

Lab 13 continues our exploration of the Michelson interferometer.  In the prep package you will work through some alignments, make predictions of experimental outcomes, and complete the quantum mechanical calculation we started in the last class's "Quantum Snippit".

Lab 13 Prep Package (pdf file)
Lab 13 Briefing (pdf file)

Here are the fringes seen in the 2 interferometers built by teams Mir and Skylab for Lab 12:

Team Skylab Fringes

Team Mir Fringes