The Physics Laboratory
The Physics Department is supplied with two laboratories, adequately equipped with standard and special apparatus for quantitative measurements in elementary mechanics, heat, sound, light, and electricity. Its furnishings include sensitive physical balances, acceleration apparatus, coincidence and compound pendulums, Young’s Modulus and centrifugal force apparatus, force tables, ballistic pendulums, microscopes, radiation equipment, and specially designed equipment for obtaining centers of gravity and moments of inertia of various specimens.
Equipment is at hand for performing standard experiments in heat. Kundt’s tubes, electric tuning forks and resonance tubes are provided for experiments in sound. Measurements in light employ diffraction gratings, prisms, lenses, and mirrors. A first class optical bench with Lummer-Brodhun head, 30″ sphere photometer, illuminometer, and Weston Photronic cells are used for illumination measurements. An equipment of meters, resistance units, Wheatstone bridges, potentiometer sets and traction permeameter is provided for elementary electrical measurements.