Contact Us

For more information about the Seattle University Department of Physics, please contact

Dr. David Boness,
Chair and Professor,
Department of Physics,
Seattle University,
Seattle, WA 98122

Email: dboness@seattleu.edu

Telephone: 206-296-5940

Departmental Equipment For Student Use

• TSI Laser Doppler Velocimetry System
• TSI Particle Image Velocimetry System with Nd-TAG Laser and CCD Camera
• Rotating Annular Thin-Film Flow Tank for fluid turbulence experiments
• Computer-controlled 14-inch reflecting telescope and dome
• TeachSpin Laser Diode Spectroscopy experimental set-ups
• TeachSpin Pulsed NMR experimental set-ups
• Sonoluminescence experiment
• Burleigh Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)
• Tektronix TDS3032B 300 MHz, 2.2 GS/s 2-channel digital oscilloscope with color display and GPIB
• LeCroy 175-MHz digital oscilloscope with GPIB interface
• Green emission HeNe 2mW laser with power supply
• Newport IsoStation Vibration Isolation Workstation passively isolated optical table
• Newport optical breadboard and diode lasers and detectors
• CVI Laser Products CM110 Monochromator with two optical gratings and GPIB upgrade
• CVI Spectral Products SM240 fiber optic spectrometer with Fiber optic SMA connector and Collimator lens assembly
• Multiple Dell Core 2 Duo PCs
• Many Intel-based and PowerPC-based iMac computers
• 2 MacPro computers with dual quad-core Xeon processors
• Research computers running Linux
• Abundant current version licenses for Matlab, Mathematica, and Absoft Fortran
• National Instruments DAQ and GPIB boards and a LabVIEW site license
• Keithley model 2000 precision GPIB-contollable digital multimeter
• Electron Spin Resonance equipment
• Franck-Hertz experimental apparatus
• TeachSpin Magnetic Torque apparatus
• TeachSpin Magnetic Force apparatus
• TeachSpin Hall Effect Probes
• Daedelon computer-controlled spectrophotometer
• Holography equipment
• Photographic darkroom for holography
• Optical fiber optics experimental set-ups
• Daedelon chaotic pendulum with computer-controlled interface
• Michelson interferometer
• 2 TSI model 1539-A Stroboslave light sources
• National Intruments model 7344 control board and interface box
• Spectroscopes
• Photoelectric effect apparatus for measurement of Planck's constant
• Superconductivity apparatus
• Multiple He-Ne lasers
• Speed-of-light module
• Various isotopes and scintillation counters
• Nuclear Chicago Type 108 Geiger-Muller tubes
• Black body radiation source and detector
• Adiabatic gas law apparatus and computer interface
• 10 PASCO Workshop 750 interfaces with force, motion, voltage, current, and magnetic sensors
• Wavetek model 1281 Selfcal Digital Multimeter
• 2 Fluke model 196 ScopeMeters
• 2 Fluke model 45-15 Digital Multimeters with GPIB interface
• 2 Wavetek model 39 30 MS/s Universal Waveform Generators
• 4 Fluke model 189 True RMS Multimeters
• 2 Fluke model 867B Graphical Multimeters
• ... and more!