Advanced Labs
Software
Image/J from NIH (free, Mac/Win/Linux) , Image processing and data analysis in Java
Download at http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/download.html
Igor Pro, Scientific graphing, image processing, and data analysis program
Download trial/demo version. A classrom license is available for you to install this program on your laptop/PC for classrom work. Contact Marc Olson [olson at pa.msu.edu] for a classroom license.
For further information, Visit http://www.wavemetrics.com/ .
Graph.tk, http://graph.tk/
Online graph sketching app that can graph functions and numerically solve differential equations.
Office Suites
Open Office (Win/Mac/Linux, free) http://www.openoffice.org/
Libre Office (Win/Mac/Linux, free) http://www.libreoffice.org/
Neo Office (Mac only, require 'donation') http://www.neooffice.org/
Googledocs.msu (onlilne collaboration) http://googledocs.msu.edu/ (login with your MSU NetID)
LaTeX, A document preparation system
Check "Getting LaTeX" to download and install your favorate distribution, http://www.latex-project.org/
Physics Lab Companion
(by S. Szymanski at University of Regina, Canada)
Chapter 2 Uncertainties in Measurements
Chapter 5 Graphs: The Method of Least Squares
Chapter 6 Measuring Instruments
Experiments
I. Photoelectric Effect and Measurement of h/e
Interactive Simulation: Photoelectric Effect @ PhET
Lab Package - Photoelectric Effect
II. Optical Trapping Experiment - Optical Tweezers
Interactive Simulation: Optical Tweezers and Applications @ PhET
Lab Package - Optical Trapping
III. Fourier Optics - Spatial Light Modulators
Interactive Simulation: Fourier - Making Waves @ PhET
Mathematica Simulations (Download and Install Free Wolfram CDF Player, click here):
1. MathematicaDemo - 2D Fourier Transfrom
2. MathematicaDemo - Laser Diffraction (Fresnel to Fraunhofer Diffraction)
3. MathematicaDemo - Image Deconvolution
Lab Package - Fourier Optics/SLM
IV. Quantum Optics
Interactive Simulation: Quantum Wave Interference @ PhET
Perspective: Spontaneous Parametric Process in Modern Optics, Optics and Photonics News, Nov. 2011
Wk1: Simulated Experiments
Lab Package - Quantum Optics/Quantum Mechanics
Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
Reference Site:
Modern Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics Experiments at Beck Lab, Whitman College.
