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Laboratory Skills

General Lab Skills for Experimental Physics

  1. The Perils of Dimensional Analysis
  • What is T at the surface of last scattering? It is not kT = 13.6 eV
  1. Soldering
  2. Noise Analysis of Electronic Circuits
  • Johnson noise in resistors
  • method of impedance calculations
  • opamps
  • relation to Fluc Diss theorem
  • 1/f noise in resistors
  • RF issues
  • DC / low freq issues
  1. How to set up an optical table for low noise measurements
  2. Thermal control of a box
  3. Laser Loop Stabilization
  4. Damping a Pendulum
  5. Thermal Noise in Mechanical Experiments
  6. UHV best practices
  7. Signal Processing
  8. Generic Feedback Loop Design
  9. Some notes/thoughts on how to choose materials for stuff (metals, glasses, plastics, etc)
  10. My Adventures with the Nd:YAG NPRO (1996 - 2019)
  11. Optical Contacting
  12. Should I buy this gadget or just make it myself? (inspired by Doug Osheroff)

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