Seattle University Physics Department Facilities

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!
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