List of Experiments

Second Year Honors Lab

University of Dhaka
Optics:
O1. (a) To set up a spectrometer, viz.

(i) Mechanical and optical leveling,

(ii) Focusing for parallel rays by Schusters method.

(b) To measure the angle of prism and to determine the refractive index of its material
by the minimum deviation method.

O2. To determine the wavelength of light from discharge tubes using a diffraction grating.

O3. To calibrate a spectrometer using a given prism and to determine Cauchys constants:

(a) A and B graphically using linear approximation

(b) A, B and C using least square fitting and solving simultaneous equations.

O4. To determine the specific rotation of sugar solution using a polarimeter.

O5. To determine the wavelength of sodium light using a Fresnels bi-prism.

O6. To determine the wavelength of sodium light by means of Newtons rings.

O7. To determine the wavelengths from a He-Ne laser and a diode laser and to determine
the refractive index of air using a Michelson interferometer.

O8. To study the diffraction intensity at single and double slit systems.

O9. Verification of Malus Law and determination of Verdet constant using Faraday rotation
experiment.
Electronics:

C1. (a) To calibrate the frequency dial of a given signal generator and to calibrate the time
base of a given oscilloscope at some arbitrary positions using the line frequency as a
standard.

(b) To measure the phase difference between VR and VC in an RC circuit from Lissajous
figures.

(c) To study the frequency response of

(i) Phase difference between Vin and VC and
(ii) Peak charge value of the capacitor in an RC circuit.

C2. To study the charging and discharging of a capacitor in an RC circuit and to determine
the exponential relaxation time constant (). To study the buildup and decay of current
in an LR circuit and to determine the exponential relaxation time constant ().

C3. To study the damped oscillations of an LCR circuit by measuring the following

(i) Natural frequency

(ii) Damping time constant () and
(iii) Critical damping resistance (CDR).
Electricity and Magnetism:

E 1. For a ballistic galvanometer

(a) To study the decay of deflection with time and hence to obtain graphically the
(i) Undamped ballistic deflection and
(ii) Logarithmic decrement and damping time constant for a particular value of
galvanometer loop resistance.
(b) To study the variation of logarithmic decrement with galvanometer loop resistance
and to obtain a value of critical damping resistance from the -R curve.

E 2. To determine the absolute capacitance of a capacitor using a ballistic galvanometer.

E 3. To determine the self inductance of a coil by Andersons method.

E 4. To study the variation of mutual inductance with the separation between two coils.

E 5. To calibrate an electromagnet: drawing of i-H and d-H curves.

Waves and Oscillations:

W1. Study of the driven damped harmonic oscillations.

W2. Experiment with stretched string and resonance tube

(a) Determination of speed of a wave along a stretched string.

(b) Calculation of the density of a string by observing standing wave.
(c) Determination of velocity of sound using (open and closed) resonance tubes.

W3. Determining the phase velocity of circularly polarized thread waves in the experiment
setup after Melde.
Modern Physics:

M 1. Study of the Atomic Spectra:

(i) Dtermination of number of lines per mm of the grating.

(ii) Dtermination of the different wavelengths of light emiited from different discharge
tubes.

M 2. Photo Electric Effects:

a. Determination of Plancks constant.

b. Determination of work function.
c. Study of photo current intensity
(i) As a function of bias voltage.
(ii) At different frequencies of irradiation.
(iii) At different intensities (constant frequency).

M 3. Frank Hertz Experiment.

M 4. Peltier Effect: Determination of the pump heating capacity of the Peltier Heat Pump.