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Handouts for the Labs

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• Gas effusion experiment: measureing the size of a nitrogen molecule
• Photoelectric effect and a measurement of Planck's constant 
• Measurement of the charge to mass ratio of the electron 
• Measurement of wave speeds 
• Light and electron diffraction
• The optical spectrometer and a study of atomic spectral lines 
• The Michelson interferometer and a study of optical interference effects 
• Measurement of G with the torsion balance
• The Milikan oil drop experiment:  measurement of the fundamental charge