Publication: Inexpensive Microscopy for Introductory Laboratory Courses
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2009
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American Association of Physics Teachers
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Peidle, Joseph, Chris Stokes, Robert Hart, Melissa Franklin, Ronald Newburgh, Joon Pahk, Wolfgang Rueckner, and Aravi Samuel. 2009. Inexpensive microscopy for introductory laboratory courses. American Journal of Physics 77(10): 931-938.
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We present an inexpensive apparatus for bright field and fluorescence microscopy with video capture, suitable for introductory laboratory courses. Experiments on Brownian motion and the Boltzmann distribution of suspended particles in a gravitational field are described. The Boltzmann constant is measured in three ways, and the results fall within 15% of the accepted value.
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Boltzmann equation, Brownian motion, constants, educational courses, fluorescence, laboratory techniques, optical microscopy, physics education
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