List of laboratory practicums at Physics Educational Centre

   Laboratory of mechanics and measuring techniques
   
  • Length, volume and density measurements of solid bodies with different tools
  • Elastic properties study of the spiral spring and the thin plate
  • Precession and nutation of a gyroscope
  • Research of the stretched vibrating string
  • The torsion oscillator: free oscillations
  • The torsion oscillator: forced oscillations
  • The torsion oscillator: transient processes
  • Laws of linear motion on the air track study (Verification of three Newton’s laws)
  • Study of collision laws of elastic bodies on the air track (Verification of three Newton’s laws)
  • Experiment by the determination of electron charge to its mass ratio
  • Determination of bodies moments of inertia by torsional oscillations method
  • The distribution of random measurement errors study
  • Current and voltage regulation
  • Research of electric current generator
 

Laboratory of molecular physics

   
  • Ideal gas laws
  • Viscosity of the liquid depending on the temperature measurement
  • Coefficient of the surface tension of the liquid determination
  • The velocity of sound in air in depending on temperature determination
  • Heat of vaporization of water and melting ice determination
  • Determining the adiabatic exponent Cp/Cv of air using resonance method
  • Observing the phase transition between the liquid and the gas phase at the critical point
  • Investigation of the vapor-pressure curve of water
  • Investigation of a thermocouple
  • Measurements in a wind tunnel
  • Determining the efficiency of the heat pump
  • Study of possibilities for the velocity of sound measure for the dissemination of the acoustic pulse in a cylindrical tube
  • Experiments by the velocity of light measure
  • CRT oscilloscope. Basic introduction and acquisition of practical skills with device
 

Laboratory of electricity and magnetism

   
  • Electrostatic interaction of charged conductors
  • Determining electric field generated by electrodes of simple form
  • Ohm’s law verification
  • Kirchhoff’s laws
  • Application of the Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s laws in electric circuit calculation
  • Current-voltage characteristics of nonlinear elements
  • Impedance
  • Transformer
  • Determining of the Faraday’s constant
  • Biot-Savart’s law
  • Vacuum diode and triode. Principle of operation and applications
  • Study of the processes of magnetization and reversal magnetization in ferromagnets
 

Laboratory of optics

   
  • Geometrical optics. Basic optical systems
  • Fraunhofer diffraction
  • Light absorption by matter. Bouguer-Lambert-Beer’s law
  • Refractive index of the glass measurement by the smallest beam angle deviation in the prism
  • Prism spectrometer. Measuring the line spectra of inert gases and metal vapors
  • Determining the radius of curvature of lens by the Newton’s rings method
  • Basic experiments with polarised light
  • Malus law
  • Laws of photometry
  • Optical activity. Polarimetry
  • Measuring the spectra of gas-discharge light source using a grating spectrometer
  • Phase and group velocity of ultrasonics in liquids. The diffraction of light at an ultrasonics
 

Laboratory of physical experiments automation

   
  • Virtual devices creation in LabView environment
  • Virtual devices programming in LabView environment
  • Programming of input-output digital ports for a NI MyDAQ data acquisition device in the LabView environment
  • The simple circuits of electric current study with NI MyDAQ data acquisition device
  • Fundamentals of physical experiment automation with a computer
  • Current-voltage characteristics of circuit elements
  • AC circuits study
  • Milliken’s experiment
 

Laboratory of optical methods of measurements

   
  • Focusing of spectrograph
  • Diffraction lattice
  • The resolution of the spectral device
  • The interference pattern (Jamin interferometer)
  • Measurement of the refractive index of gas using the Rayleigh interferometer
  • Study of a microscope
  • Rydberg constant determination
  • The magnetic splitting of spectral lines (Zeeman effect)
  • Spectroscopic determination of nuclear moments (hyperfine structure)
  • Photomultiplier study
 

Laboratory of electrical methods of measurements

   
  • Unijunction transistor equivalent study
  • FET characteristics research with p-n junction
  • Polar molecules
  • Frank and Hertz experiment
  • NMR in liquids
  • NMR in ferrits
  • NMR in solids
  • Fourier spectroscopy of NMR
  • Hall effect in Germanium
  • Hall effect in Nikel
  • Thermionic emission
  • Ferroelectrics
  • Temperature dependence of the nickel magnetization study (the Curie point)
  • Band gap in Germanium determination
  • Determination of the diffusion length and lifetime of minority carriers in the semiconductor
 

Laboratory of spectroscopic methods of measurements

   
  • Second harmonic generation in a KDP crystal
  • Kerr effect
  • Raman scattering
  • Excitons
  • Photoconductivity study
  • Dependence of selenium photocell sensitivity depending on wavelength study
  • Determination of inertia moment and interatomic distances for cyanogen molecule (CN)
  • Determination of iodine dissociation energy by the spectrum of its absorption
 

Laboratory of scanning probe microscopy

   
  • Obtaining the first SPM image. Processing and presentation of experimental results
  • Solid surfaces study by scanning tunneling microscopy
  • Solid surfaces study by atomic force microscopy in contactless mode
  • Artifacts in SPM
 

Laboratory of X-ray physics

   
  • Absorption of X-rays
  • X-rays spectral distribution under the Bragg diffraction conditions
  • Compton effect
  • Moseley's law
  • Crystal structure of alkaline halogens study by Debye-Scherrer method
  • Structure determining by X-ray powder patterns (Debye method)
  • Determining of monocrystals orientation using Laue diffraction pattern (Laue method)