The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy makes it possible for students to write their theses as part of the Basic Physics Practical Course . For more information, please contact either Dr. Dirk Meyer or Mr. Torsten Cleve.
Selection list of possible experimental topics for theses
Here you will find a selection of possible experimental topics for your term paper as a first introduction and preparation. For each topic there is an introduction, a description of the experiment and a photo of the experimental setup:
- Electrical characteristics of different conductors
- Mechanical resonance
- Acoustic waves, sound propagation
- Lens laws, eye lens model
- Microscope
- Grating and prism spectral apparatus
- Spectrophotometry
- Optical polarisation, saccharimetry
- Ionising radiation, X-ray radiation absorption
- Ionising radiation, X-ray diffraction
- Radioactivity
- Spec. heat capacity, enthalpy of evaporation
- Viscosity and surface tension
- Photoelectric effect
- e/m with the thread jet tube
- Franck-Hertz experiment
- Millikan trial
- Hologram
