Upper division labs starting at the sophomore level have been recently revised to better support our lecture courses and 赌博娱乐平台网址大全’s Pathway curriculum.  All labs combine state of the art equipment with soft skills such as data analysis and technical writing. 

在我们的现代物理实验室, students replicate famous experiments or research topics from twentieth-century physics, 比如玛丽和皮埃尔居里对放射性的研究, 爱因斯坦光电效应, 以及弗兰克-赫兹实验. Students are introduced to proper data handling and scientific writing.  This course is the first course in our technical writing sequence, 并满足Pathway的书面核心容量.

The Electronics Lab involves rigorous training in RLC circuits, 二极管, 晶体管, 示波器, 运算放大器, 数字逻辑.  Combining circuit building with the Arduino microprocessor allows students to apply programming and algorithmic design to real-world devices.

在我们的高级光子学实验室, students rotate through labs covering topics not typically addressed fully in coursework.  例如, students turn music into an optical signal that can travel through fiber optic cables and be played in the next room using the AC Faraday effect, and explore nanotechnology by fabricating and analyzing metal nanoparticles. This course is the second in our technical writing sequence, 并满足Pathway的书面核心容量.

The 火星麦克林天文台 provides students with intensive hands-on experiences in astronomy. We have eight computer-controlled Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, 包括6个8”光圈, 在我们的观景台上有一个12英寸的孔, and one with 16" apertures permanently mounted in its own dome. Students can view the moon in amazing detail as well as image planets and nebulae. 赌博娱乐平台网址大全’s inquiry-based introductory lab uses observations from the rooftop facilities as well as data sets from satellites and telescopes around the world such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Kepler mission.

Our research labs are well equipped with state of the art instrumentation housed in Marrs Mclean Hall and the Center for the Sciences and Innovation.  研究 labs are funded through both internal and external sources such as the National Science Foundation, W. M. 凯克基金会和研究公司. Students work directly with faculty mentors on research projects. 

We have several advanced in-house linux based servers with multiple CPU and GPU machines in our physics department computational lab in Marrs Mclean Hall. These machines are useful for designing and constructing biologically relevant complexes, e.g., 蛋白质、脂质, 蛋白质/核糖核酸, 蛋白质/药物, 模拟细胞膜的纳米结构, gene-editing spliceosome and multi-purpose anti-Alzheimer drugs’ targets. 除了, our servers are connected to the high performance computer (HPC) locally at 赌博娱乐平台网址大全 and to other HPC’s via the LEARN networks, 准备好进行外部协作.

脉冲变波长激光共聚焦显微镜
位于科学与创新中心, the confocal microscope allows us to acquire 4D (3D spatial and time) images of model membranes and live cell images with sensitivities reaching single-molecule resolution.

TIRF显微镜
住在马尔斯·麦克莱恩大厅, the TIRF (Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence) microscope is used by faculty and student researchers to study biophysical processes that occur within a 100 nanometers to 1 micron of a surface. The microscope achieves high resolution by exciting fluorescent objects with a light wave that decays exponentially with distance from the surface. Examples of processes measured with the microscope include the complex motion of microorganisms and thermally induced undulations in the membranes of cells.

JEOL扫描电子显微镜
位于科学与创新中心, our tungsten filament SEM is equipped with 能源-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence imaging.  This instrument is used both for upper division lab courses and undergraduate research.  研究 topics include the characterization of nanofabricated structures, observation and identification of microfossils in the Nanpanjiang Basin, 基于胶原蛋白的组织支架成像, 以及气溶胶粒子的结构. 

纳米原子力显微镜(AFM)
住在马尔斯·麦克莱恩大厅, our AFMs are used in student research projects and our upper division lab courses.  The AFMs can image with nanometer resolution and are used to map the topology of various samples.