Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus
Supertek’s Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus is a contemporary version of the classic design which allows the students to observe the velocity of an oil drop rising and falling in an electric filed. The apparatus is equipped with camera which allows the user to connect it with the computer screen for an easy viewing of the droplets. It permits the calculation of the force acting on the charge carried by the oil drop.
What’s Included
1x Millikan Oil Drop Apparatus
1x Non-Volatile Oil
1x Multimeter
1x Stopwatch
Experiments
To determine the charge of an electron by Millikan’s Oil Drop Method
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Interferometer Experiment
Objectives
- To produce and observe the interference pattern.
- To measure the wavelength of laser source using the interferometer.
Principle
Phenomena of interference can be explained by the principle of superposition. Consider two E.M waves simultaneously propagating through the same region of space. The resultant electric field at any point in that region of space is the vector sum of the electric field of each wave. Depending on the strength of the resulting electric field at a point in space where the two waves superpose, we observe dark and bright regions in the interference pattern.
Key Features
- Easy to Setup – The apparatus is built on a sturdy and portable platform. The legs are height adjustable to aid leveling of the platform & precise optical alignment of the laser beam. All this reduces the time taken for setup and aids the ease of measurements.
- High quality beam splitter and reflective mirrors – The setup comes with 40 x 40 x 40mm beam splitter cube and 40 x 40mm (98% highly reflective) mirrors for clear fringe pattern.
- 1 micron step movement – The complex double lever mechanism enables a least count of 1 micron in movement of the fixed mirror. Measurement error is less than 5% in wavelength measurement.
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Faraday Effect Experiment
OBJECTIVES
- Observe the effect of a magnetic field on the plane of polarization of polarized light as it passes through a dispersive medium.
- Measure the Verdet’s constant of a given dispersive material.
PRINCIPLE
When linearly polarized light passes through an optical medium in a region of the strong magnetic field, the plane of polarization of linearly polarized light rotates by an angle. The angle of rotation of plane-polarized light is proportional to the length of the optical medium and component of the magnetic field in the direction of light. The factor of proportionality is medium-specific and is called Verdet’s constant. And this effect is known as the Faraday Rotation or Faraday Effect. Discovered by Michael Faraday in 1845, the Faraday effect was the first experimental evidence that light and electromagnetism are related. In the experimental setup, the optical medium is an SF6 glass cube.FEE1-C -
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BH Curve Experiment
Objectives
To observe and study the magnetization behaviour of the ferromagnetic magnetic materials provided.
Principle
The B-H curve is the curve characteristic of the magnetic properties of a material or element or alloy. It tells you how the material responds to an external magnetic field, and is a critical piece of information when designing magnetic circuits. A Ferromagnetic material, retains its magnetization even after the external magnetic field is removed. And the reversal or change in the direction of the applied external magnetic field results in a change in the magnetization of the ferromagnetic material. It is seen that the change in the magnetization lags behind the change in the applied external magnetic field. Thereby, a hysteresis behaviour is exhibited.
Key Features
- Compact Setup – The apparatus design is compact and yet effective to perform the experiments with ease. The simple connections and stand to hold the teslameter probe, makes it easy to handle.
- Multiple samples included – Multiple ferromagnetic samples are provided to study the BH curves of the different materials. The removable cores make it easy to change between samples.
Equipments Needed for the Experiment
- PH94014 B- H Curve Measuring Apparatus 1
- PH64505 Multimeter 1
- PH61035D/5 Advanced Power Supply 1
- PH93240 Teslameter 1
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Size of Particle Experiment
OBJECTIVES
- To measure the width/thickness of the given samples by analyzing the diffraction pattern.
PRINCIPLE
The characteristics of light such as interference and diffraction can be understood when light is studied as a wave phenomenon. Interaction of waves with matter results in either transmission, reflection, absorption, or diffraction of the wave. When the size of the matter is comparable to the wavelength of the wave that it interacts with, a phenomenon called diffraction occurs. Diffraction of light due to particles is a function of the size of the particle and the wavelength of the light incident. It is possible to measure the size of a particle by studying the diffraction patterns created by it.SOP1-C -
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Brewster Angle Experiment
OBJECTIVES
- Measurement of Brewster’s angle for a given dielectric dispersive medium.
PRINCIPLE
When un-polarized light is incident on the surface of a dielectric (such as a glass), at a certain angle of incidence the reflected light is completely plane-polarized. This phenomenon was discovered by Sir David Brewster and, thus, the specific angle is called Brewster’s angle or polarization angle. Also, from the experiment, it can be confirmed that the reflected ray and the refracted ray are 90° apart when the incident angle is set at Brewster’s angle.BAE1-C
